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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2007

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735417

The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective

Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021

global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …

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Structural change and innovation as exit strategies from the middle income trap

Vivarelli, Marco - 2014

This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...

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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills

Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...

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International business visits and the technology frontier

Dowrick, Steve (contributor); Tani, Massimiliano (contributor) - 2008

This paper studies the impact of international business trips on the stock of knowledge available to an economy. It develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for a panel of twelve Australian industries during...

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Australia: the miracle economy

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013

the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a recession. In this paper we study the behaviour of the Australian … economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are …

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Then and now : reflections on two Australian mining booms

Gregory, Robert G. - 2011

Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a …

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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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Does openness to international financial flows contribute to productivity growth?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2008

Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...

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