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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379598
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Inequality and growth in rural China : does higher inequality impede growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor);  … - 2006
incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003474137
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From riches to rags, and back? : institutional change, financial development and economic growth in Argentina since the 1890s
Campos, Nauro; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2014
Argentina is the only country in the world that was "developed" in 1900 and "developing" in 2000. The various competing explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political institutions, financial integration, financial development, and macroeconomic instability. Yet no study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440609
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Institutions and development in MENA region : evidence from the manufacturing sector
Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali - 2015
This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The results reveal that English civil law origin and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469679
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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 humans from Africa tens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670896
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Are we there yet? : time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three decades prove anything, however, it is that the late Mancur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631449
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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310834
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537265
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Risk, institutions and growth : why England and not China?
Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat; Sasson, Diego - 2011
model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235154
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Labor supply responses to new rural social pension insurance in China : a regression discontinuity approach
Chen, Zeyuan; Bengtsson, Tommy; Helgertz, Jonas - 2015
2008, China introduced the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP), a program which by now covers the majority of the Chinese rural … elderly. This paper examines the effects of the NRSP on the labor supply of the elderly in rural China. As pension benefit … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346619