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This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China's exportoriented growth model toward … employment and employment opportunities in the longer term, there could be employment losses in the short run as the economy … policies to cushion the employment impact in the transition, particularly in meeting the skills gap of associated with this …
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There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether...
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dangers and reasons for India's growth slowdown and proposes policy reforms for sustaining fast growth …
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explaining China's and India's growth. Specific financial sector policies are shown to map well the size and changes in the …
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This paper analyzes the drivers of India's growth in the past five decades and considers baseline and upside scenarios … of India's medium-term potential growth. Using a production function approach, the paper assesses the impact of the …
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India's financial sector has faced many challenges in recent decades, with a large, negative, and persistent credit to …
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consider India’s employment challenge going forward. We find that India needs to create between 143-324 million jobs by 2050 …While India’s growth has been strong in recent decades, its structural transformation remains incomplete. In this paper …, we first take stock of India’s growth to date. We find that economic activity has shifted from agriculture to services …
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This paper explores the role of public expenditure in fostering inclusive growth. It starts with a presentation of salient features of public expenditure. Then, it lays out an analytical framework that describes the channels through which public expenditure affects inequality and poverty in the...
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This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …
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This paper focuses on two central issues related to the contrasting experiences of Malaysia and Pakistan regarding poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries, including the initial conditions, institutional changes,...
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