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As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
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Labour markets are currently in a phase of cyclical recovery and undergoing structural transformation due to globalisation, demographic trends, advancing digital technologies and automation and changes in labour market institutions. Against this background, businesses increasingly report that...
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Starting from Professor Kornai´s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-termperspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performanceof the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. Wepresent in a simple form the...
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Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …
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We examine whether women exposed to China's one-child policy (OCP) change their fertility decisions when they migrate …
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China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the … contributions of various dimensions of China's changing WAPS and its impact on economic growth. I show that between 1982-2015 the …
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urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the impact of gender …
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Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …
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China's remarkable run of persistently high growth in recent decades is all the more stunning in light of the country …
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-marriage family outcomes using a conceptual framework that is widely applicable. Based on two data sets from China, we find beautiful …
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