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Leaders are critical to a country's success. They can influence domestic policy via specific measures that they enforce, and they can also influence international public opinion towards their country. Foreign Direct Investments are also essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis...
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The number of private enterprises in China has grown rapidly, and donations from them are an important source of … philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by private enterprises using a survey of data covering … all 31 provincial-level units of China. The data show that philanthropy practised by Chinese private enterprises is …
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China's government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to … paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …
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2008-10 survey of China's High-tech firms, conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, to estimate the …, language and business culture, and trade laws in both China and the West. Their unique skill sets and knowledge appear to serve …
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(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …
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We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...
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We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …
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How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI...
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quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …
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In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
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