"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with … between the usual macroeconomic variables and the two types of regional inequality. "--World Bank web site …

entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped … transport infrastructure and informal trade barriers. "--World Bank web site …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

The corporate scorecard provides information on the Bank's overall performance and the results achieved by its clients … direction for the Bank's work. These high-level outcomes cannot be attributed directly to the Bank, because countries and their … highlights development results that countries have achieved with Bank support. Tier three indicators provide information on the …

Two ambitious goals guide World Bank Group actions: (i) ending extreme poverty by reducing the percentage of people … burdens future generations will inherit. The World Bank Group is committed to supporting countries in the achievement of these … goals with a combination of financing, knowledge, and convening services. The World Bank Corporate Scorecard provides …

The Corporate Scorecard is designed to provide a snapshot of the Bank???s overall performance, including its business … made and areas that need attention. The World Bank has comprehensive systems??? on which it continuously improves … Association (IDA13) in 2002, the Bank became the first multilateral development institution to use a framework with quantitative …

"The paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post … institutional development. In China relatively more estimates suggest that privatization to domestic owners improves the level of …-communist economies, but foreign joint ventures rather than wholly owned foreign firms have a positive effect in China. Worker or …