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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021
incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317407
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005 2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083787
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Institutions and Economic Performance : What Can Be Explained?
Commander, Simon John - 2010
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries : A Microeconomic Perspective
Vivarelli, Marco - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106954
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Growth and Poverty in Africa : Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Shimeles, Abebe - 2015
Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent evidence on the pace of poverty reduction in Africa and addresses whether or not previously held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030863
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan - 2012
In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109425
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Regional Convergence in Russia : Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2020
In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839051
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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...
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Risk, Institutions and Growth : Why England and Not China?
Greif, Avner - 2011
model incorporating England's and China's distinct pre-modern risk-sharing institutions. The model predicts a transition in … England and not China even with equal levels of risk sharing. Under the clan-based Chinese institution, the relatively risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127725
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
Sun, Peng - 2010
the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138732