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Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth and moves toward and away from greater democracy. To address the potential endogeneity of...
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the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of …
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We study the effect of the upsurge of natural resources income from the commodity price boom of the 2000s on the functional distribution of income. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model of Dutch disease that characterizes how natural resource windfalls affect equilibrium factor shares....
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Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led …
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risen sharply recently as world prices for them have risen, namely commodity related goods (jewellery, fuel and metal crimes …
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's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 …
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changes for the balance and sustainability of China's own economic development as well as the associated implications for the … global monetary system. While China is actively promoting the internationalization of its currency, it is a long way from … attaining full convertibility or meeting other prerequisites for achieving reserve currency status. Ultimately, China will …
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world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …. The evidence reported also suggests that the emergence of China as an important source of world growth might be the driver …
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striking contradiction is China where, despite a fourfold multiplication in two decades in real GDP per capita from a low … term ; short term ; Easterlin paradox ; developed countries ; transition countries ; less developed countries ; China …
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Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the … 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 …
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