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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies

Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007

While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …

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Project aid and firm performance

Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2021

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using …

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Economic performance and unemployment : evidence from an emerging economy - Turkey

Berument, Hakan (contributor); Dogan, Nukhet (contributor); … - 2005

and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and …

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Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012

level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady … samples. -- labor productivity ; economic development ; education ; gender ; Turkey …

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Reexamining the conditional effect of foreign direct investment

Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro - 2013

The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...

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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...

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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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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...

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Subjective well‐being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...

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