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We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and …
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-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …
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American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …
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India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large …
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survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …
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In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have … question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … present in China, but not in Russia. Transition in China has taken place under the tight control of the communist party. As a …
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best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude … gained from trade, and by some measures, more so than China. We sketch out a theory in which developing countries can grow … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …
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Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its …
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We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces …-2004, and an acceleration of growth when the period is divided at 1993. However, the magnitude of output growth in China is … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …
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