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Capital estimates are widely used in economic growth and productivity studies, for profitability considerations and wealth accounting exercises. Yet the calculation of "capital" frequently receives only cursory attention, despite the challenges posed by conceptual difficulties, the complexity of...
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Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of … dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly … understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned economy, comes with severe limitations in terms of data coverage and …
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The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and … ultimately unsustainable. But largely unnoticed, a shift has taken place. This paper examines the changes in investment patterns … economy-wide data with various breakdown. Significant shifts in investment patterns across sectors and ownership forms have …
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it driven by investment and capital accumulation. By 2014, gross capital formation had reached 46 percent of aggregate … expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment in driving economic growth in China, questions how much longer China can … sustain a relatively high investment rate, and examines the arguments that have been offered for an impending drastic …
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This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE profitability...
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