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New issues in Indian macro policy
Shah, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2008
For many decades, macro-policy in India was conducted in an environment with five key elements: Agricultural shocks rather than a conventional business cycle; A closed economy; deeply distortionary tax policy coupled with a fiscal crisis; financial markets that lacked speculative price discovery,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341747
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2012
within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945273
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Towards A Competitive Economy: VAT and Customs Duty Reform
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform, with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512441
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Climate Change and China: Technology, Market and Beyond
Wen, Dale Jiajun - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of … Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerates the measures that China has taken so far …
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Environmental Sector China: From Major Building Site to Growth Market
Heymann, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2009
level of western nations. Per unit of gross domestic product China consumes more than four times as much energy. The most …
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India's SEZ Policy
Mårtensson, Ebba; Olsson, Per - eSocialSciences - 2012
Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic Zone (SEZs) policy became part of a strategy to maintain high growth and promote India’s manufacturing sector. However, India’s current SEZ policy does little to strengthen India’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146284
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Private Sector Industrialization in China: Evidence from Wenzhou
Strauss, John; Qian, Edward Y.; Shen, Minggao; Liu, Dong; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in Wenzhou. The study is done by relying on a probabilistic firm survey that we carried out in Wenzhou in early 2006 for three industries: shoes, eyeglasses and general equipment. Not a...
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Health and Human Rights in Chin State, Western Burma: A Population-Based Assessment Using Multistaged Household Cluster Sampling
Sollom, Richard; Richard, Adam K - eSocialSciences - 2011
The Chin State of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is an isolated ethnic minority area with poor health outcomes and reports of food insecurity and human rights violations. A report on a population-based assessment of health and human rights in Chin State is given. It is sought to quantify reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002284
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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China
Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - eSocialSciences - 2012
The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393104
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History Matters: China and Global Governance
Dobson, Wendy - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper focuses on the two-way relationship between China and the international economic system. China’s embrace … humiliation drive nationalism and assertiveness at the same time that China identifies with developing countries as a … and global economic institutions by applying this criterion of economic cooperation: is China willing to modify national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318509