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Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war. Focusing on the conflict in Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and localities that experienced more intense conflict are lagging...
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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
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If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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income trap as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
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Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life … fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend … in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life …
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This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
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Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life … fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend … in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814474
income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721628
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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