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Infrastructure development, income inequality, and urban sustainability in the People's Republic of China
Mendoza, Octasiano M. Valerio - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People's Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635237
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Globalization, infrastructure, and inclusive growth
Winters, Leonard Alan - 2014
This paper covers threes issues: first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and inequality. Both international trade and infrastructure make it easier for people to exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010245334
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The impacts of infrastructure in development : a selective survey
Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2015
Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465408
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Misperceiving Inequality
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015
Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016396
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Digitalization and economic performance of two fast-growing Asian economies : India and the People's Republic of China
Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Nayak, Suryakanta; Behera, Jayanti - 2021
This paper aims to identify the role of digitalization and infrastructure in two fast-growing Asian economies, namely India and the People's Republic of China (PRC), within the growth framework from1990 to 2019 by using panel 2SLS and the NARDL technique. The results show that internet and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500546
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Reevaluating the economic benefits of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)-People's Republic of China high-speed rail and its implications for fiscal stability of the Lao...
Lane, Jonathan Andrew - 2020
This paper explores the challenges created by debt and fiscal stability in countries where major infrastructure investment is proposed. This paper specifically focuses on the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the $6 billion Lao PDR-People's Republic of China (PRC) high-speed railway...
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Infrastructure and urbanization in the People's Republic of China
Li, Zhigang - 2017
The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined relationship between investment, urbanization, and economic growth. In one mechanism, urbanization generates demand for infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585947
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Cross-economy dynamics in energy productivity : evidence from 47 economies over the period 2000-2015
Liu, Yang; Zhong, Sheng - 2021
economies contradict the implicit assumption of standard convergence analysis. To address this issue, we adopt the Markov chain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425283
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
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A framework to study the role of structural transformation in productivity growth and regional convergence
Fukao, Kyōji; Paul, Saumik - 2018
We show that σ-convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by σ-convergence in sectoral … productivity growth and σ-convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese … prefecture-level data from 1874 to 2008, we find support for substantial convergence effects of structural transformation in the …
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