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The direct and indirect effects of infrastructure on firm productivity: Evidence from manufacturing in the People's Republic of China
Wan, Guanghua; Zhang, Yan - 2017
. The latter arises from the infrastructure-agglomeration link and has been largely overlooked in the literature on …) they also exert a positive indirect effect on firm productivity through the agglomeration channel; and (3) the empirical … results are robust to different agglomeration indicators and different subsamples. …
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East Asian integration: Towards an East Asian economic community
Dent, Christopher M. - 2017
East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...
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Two stages of economic development
Gong, Gang - 2016
This study suggests that the development process of a less-developed country can be divided into two stages, which demonstrate significantly different properties in areas such as structural endowments, production modes, income distribution, and the forces that drive economic growth. The two...
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Innovation and firm performance in the People's Republic of China: A structural approach with spillovers
Howell, Anthony - 2017
This paper adopts a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm performance in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Informing the analysis is an unusually rich source of panel data comprising almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC...
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Relationship between infrastructure and population agglomeration in urban India: An empirical sssessment
Tripathi, Sabyasachi - 2017
analysis suggest that improvement of infrastructure facilities may not significantly increase population agglomeration …
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China: Exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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Costs and benefits of urbanization: The Indian case
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2016
Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and pace of urbanization. This paper summarizes research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity and economic growth in both rural and urban sectors,...
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Structural change and income distribution: Accounting for regional inequality in the People's Republic of China and its changes during 1952-2012
Wan, Guanghua; Wang, Chen; Zhang, Xun - 2016
attributable to structural transformation and the other component to concentration or spatial agglomeration. Applying the …
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Why geographic dispersion before its time: Industrial policy and economic geography in the People's Republic of China
Wu, Yiyun; Zhu, Xiwei - 2017
This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using interprovincial panel data for the period from 1999 to 2010. It shows that, after 2005, both geographic concentration and industrial...
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How to identify specialization? The case of India's cities
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2017
Given that India's urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account for only 31% of the country's population, they have been rightly called the engines of India's growth. In this paper, I answer the following questions: What are the economic...
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