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Does Corporate Governance Reform Necessarily Boost Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails - 2012
, especially in societies with highly skewed distribution of ownership. We however argue that the success of CG reform would, in …. Using recent data from Russia for 2000-2008, we find that the introduction of corporate governance codes in Russia had …
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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther - 2011
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...
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Evaluating the Impacts of Minigrid Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ayhan, Sinem; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan Christoph - 2022
A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....
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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar …Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …
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Yuan and Roubles : Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn - 2015
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to …
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Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2020
farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …
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Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2019
Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation … rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible for the difference in female labor force …
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …
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Looking Back on the Lessons of 'Higher Education and Developing Countries : Peril and Promise': Perspectives on China and India
Bloom, David E. - 2016
focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980308
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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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