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Trends and patterns of growth, development, achievements of China and India : a comparative analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016
given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained … unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … from US$341 in 1990 to US$4,421 in 2010 whereas India posted a four times growth from US$384 in 1990 to US$1,342 in 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444894
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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
(economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531112
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All about the giants : probing the influences on growth and income inequality at the end of the 20th century
Berry, R. Albert; Serieux, John - 2003
inequality, was dominant through both the 1980s and 1990s. Only India s influence remained substantial by comparison. Other … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … of income however, the equalizing effect of China s rapid growth, despite the contradictory impact of increasing domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514125
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Integrating India with Asian production networks : prospects and challenges
Nag, Biswajit; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; De, Debdeep - 2015
service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from … toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of "Make in India", India needs to be … India's perspective. It also examines the trends and patterns; and prospects of integration as well as the prospects for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387468
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645955
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697413
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Growing together : Croatia and Latvia
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010
We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 in an attempt to understand better the extent to which the growth differential between the two countries can be traced to increased efficiency in the use of capital and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697476
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Natural resources : curse or blessing?
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010
Are natural resources a "curse" or a "blessing"? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986863
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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571204