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Is the growth of inequality a lasting or transitory feature of the contemporary process of globalisation? : a political economy perspective
Petit, Pascal - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 44 (2009) 6, pp. 342-345
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Slow growth of private consumption in West Europe
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 2 (1967) 8, pp. 219-220
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Business Groups and the Big Push : Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
Morck, Randall - 2007
feudal elite; withdrew its hand with a propitious mass privatization that rallied the private sector; marginalized an …
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later
Godoy, Sergio - 2006
the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …
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Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2003
While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …
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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...
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Work and Consumption in an Era of Unbalanced Technological Advance
Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2015
Keynes's "Grandchildren" essay famously predicted both a rapid increase in productivity and a sharp shrinkage of the workweek - to fifteen hours - over the century from 1930. Keynes was right (so far) about output per capita, but wrong about the workweek. The key reason is that he failed to...
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Economic growth or redistribution?
Westphalen, Jürgen - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 11 (1976) 6, pp. 168-171
Economic and development policies in Latin America, as in all other developing countries, are supposed to tackle the problem how to increase total income and, at the same time, how to reduce the present inequalities in the distribution of income. The opinions on the question, which of these...
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Growth, distribution and motivation in LDCs
Arnold, Wolfgang - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 14 (1979) 6, pp. 298-303
Economic growth leads, according to Kuznets, at first to glaring income disparities and only when a certain state of development has been reached to a levelling of incomes. Translating this thesis to the developing countries, one would have to assume that there exists a constant conflict of...
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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2000
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are associated with reduced...
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