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Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
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help the poor if local resources, accountability and governance are in good shape. The process in China and India had …
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This paper uses aggregate and firm level data to examine the characteristics of the Chinese pharmaceutical industry in general and its geographical agglomeration in particular. It addresses the following research questions: 1) Are there geographical agglomerations in China’s...
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and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although foreign investment has been flowing into … China and employment in the low-wage industries is expanding, wages of Chinese workers are not rising. In fact, China is … study of China's hukou system and how it affectes the wages of migrant workers, the paper shows how the Chinese hukou system …
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To power national development, the government organized electricity production and distribution as a state-owned vertically integrated utility, structured and operated under central planning. Electricity was supplied on the basis of political priority instead of cost, and the single party...
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The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
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peer groups such as China. The empirical literature on the location of EFDI indicate that countries with relatively low …
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China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced …
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Economic growth in China and India is exponentially increasing the global demand for skills. In turn, this will cause a …
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between the three great powers in the region: China, Japan and the United States. This paper discusses relations between China … fates of the three countries are interlinked. The challenge for the US-Japan-China triangle is to create the positive … Contemporary China Centre] …
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