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State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are present in key sectors of the economies around the world. While they can provide an important public service, there is widespread concern that their activities are negatively affected by corruption. However, there is limited cross-country analysis on the costs...
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We document that publicly listed Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are less productive and profitable than publicly listed firms in which the state has no ownership stake. In particular, Chinese listed SOEs are more capital intensive and have a lower average product of capital than...
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This paper investigates the relationship between taxation and firm performance in developing countries. Taking firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and tax data from the Government Revenue Dataset (ICTD/UNU-WIDER), our results suggest that tax revenue benefits to firm...
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Effective state-business relations (SBRs) have been lacking in industrial policy thinking despite the strong theoretical case for SBRs. The empirical study of state-business relations in developing countries has emerged only recently, with notable contributions starting in the mid-1990s,...
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The Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010. Implementing reform has resulted in significant progress that includes unbundling and...
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This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially … rising educational gap between ethnic minorities and majorities in China. …
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China is emerging as perhaps the most globally significant development finance provider, going far beyond concessional … foreign aid. With China's initiatives to create and foster new multi-lateral finance institutions, and to work in terms of … large economic landscapes in Africa, Eurasia, and Latin America, it becomes important to understand how China's own …
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China and India will have to radically transform their electric power systems in order to decouple economic growth from … identify central drivers and barriers to a clean energy transition in China and India. …
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, highlighting the implications in terms of actors, interests, and risks. Applying this framework to three functions in China … unique to China. We argue that resolving these political economy challenges is as important to facilitating the role of wind … and other renewable energies in a low carbon energy transition as providing dedicated technical and policy support. China …
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