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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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The investment-intensive growth model of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is often viewed as state-driven and …
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For the past nearly forty years, China has experienced average annual real GDP growth of close to ten percent, much of … expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment in driving economic growth in China, questions how much longer China can … reduction in investment. It also notes that investment in China remains broad-based across all economic sectors, with little …
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We study the relationship between finance and growth using a sample of 275 Chinese cities during 2009-2018. We exclude a large amount of bank loans to local governments through the local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). This allows us to construct a new and better financial development...
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This paper studies China's four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we … argue that China's growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very … China's growth path and the growth paths of other East Asia economies at a similar stage of development. The growth paths of …
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than below one. We use time series data on labor's share in GDP to estimate a substitution elasticity for China, finding … role of factor substitution in future Chinese growth. We argue that high growth in China can be supported in such a … sustainability of high Chinese growth. -- China ; growth ; sustainability ; substitution elasticity …
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(economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …
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given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained …
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China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … micro data. The aggregate data on China's ODI in African countries reveal that China's share of the stock of foreign …
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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 …
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