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Prasad, Eswar S.; Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2006

the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into … development, along with its rising market orientation and increasing integration with the world economy, may make the incremental …

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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies

Svejnar, Jan - 2007

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many …

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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration

Konseiga, Adama - 2005

France. The subsequent empirical strategy consists in comparing the growth performance of an economy without migration to the … counterpart economy. The regional growth convergence analysis shows higher convergence rate once the brain circulation is … country (France) and failed when migration, as is the case for Burkina Faso, flows into Cote d?Ivoire the polar economy of the …

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000

Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show...

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Life satisfaction in urban China: components and determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - 2008

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment,...

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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion...

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Growing out of poverty: trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988 - 2002

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line....

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Economic growth and subjective well-being: reassessing the easterlin paradox

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2008

The Easterlin paradox suggests that there is no link between a society's economic development and its average level of happiness. We re-assess this paradox analyzing multiple rich datasets spanning many decades. Using recent data on a broader array of countries, we establish a clear positive...

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Analysis of pay inequality and its impacts on growth and performance in the Korean manufacturing industry

Kim, Yunhee; Lee, Jeong-dong; Heshmati, Almas - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...

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