/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North-China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among … economies for entry hold when considering changes in India's incumbent industry structures from 1989, determined before large …

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether China's experience indicates that income-polarization was a by-product of … polarizing in China …

development zones on firm level TFP in China. The difference-in-difference estimator shows that on average, loss of development … three major seaports in China, closure of zones reduced firm-level TFP by 9.62%, whereas closure of zones farther away did … locational heterogeneity. We conclude that China's strategy of using development zones as a place-based policy to encourage …

Housing and land prices in China have experienced dramatic hikes over the past decade or two. Moreover, housing and …

We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in … of China's integration into the global economy plays a significant and regionally concentrated role in the second period …

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …

convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China … coastal and interior provinces, rather than increase in variance within each other. Therefore, it seems that China is now on a …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …