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The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Knight, John; Xia, Qingjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616659
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Social Development – A Multidimensional Approach To Social Development Analysis. Country Level Evidence for Year 2011
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147310
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Looking East, looking West: Penang as a knowledge hub
Gerke, Solvay; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328144
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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
inequality. In each case, we discuss recent and possible policy reforms. We make comparisons with China’s federal system where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787082
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China-Africa’s Emerging Economic Links: A review under the Core-Periphery perspective
Maswana, Jean-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621967
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Human capital in Qing China: economic determinism or a history of failed opportunities?
Xu, Yi; Foldvari, Peter; Van Leeuwen, Bas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The traditional education system in Qing China has been widely debated over the past decades. Some have argued it was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108796
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Economic Globalization, Marketization Reform and Economic Development in China
Yuan, Yanhui; Zhou, Xiaojuan; Tian, Guoqiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
discusses the interaction among economic globalization, economic development, and marketization reform in China, so as to … present an answer to the question of how China should participate in economic globalization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114365
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Inclusive Growth Through Creation of Human and Social Capital
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyses inclusive growth that focuses on the creation of opportunities for all. Inclusive growth allows people to contribute to and benefit from economic growth, while pro-poor growth approaches focusing on welfare of the poor only to reduce inequality. Recently, economics literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271694
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Comment on "Multinational Firms and Backward Linkages" by Ping Lin and Kamal Saggi
Keane, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
I highlight some of the key econometric problems facing the literature on FDI spillovers. For the most part, the existing literature takes the approach of estimating production functions in which the total factor productivity (TFP) of the domestic firms in a particular industry/country is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250912
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Taxes, National Identity, and Nation Building: Evidence from France
Johnson, Noel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
What is the relationship between state capacity, national identity, and economic development? This paper argues that increases in state capacity can lower the collective action costs associated with political and economic exchange by encouraging the formation of a common identity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252300