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The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …
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neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …
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global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …
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This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...
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transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that Kyrgyzstan, like Eastern European middle income transition economies, generally …
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their origin countries than non-migrants. This has led to the belief that return migration stimulates entrepreneurship in … Kyrgyzstan Study, a rich longitudinal data set from a transition economy with high levels of international temporary migration … findings cast doubt on the common narrative of return migration stimulating entrepreneurship and therefore economic development …
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(migrant monetary transfers), and alcohol consumption of migrant household members staying behind in Kyrgyzstan, a poor post …
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Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at …
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habits among boys in remittance or transfer receiving households. In the long run, Kyrgyzstan needs human capital development …
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We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...
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