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's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …
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American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …
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/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …
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The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different … goods and services and of gross fixed capital formation. Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India … higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India. We also find that China usually has a lower CV, namely a more stable …
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This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk …, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract … points) more likely to choose a worker in India. Yet, the size of the Indian diaspora on oDesk and the timing of its effects …
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pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …
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Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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This paper analyzes whether commodity futures prices traded in the United States reveal information relevant to stock prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive predictive powers of overnight futures returns of...
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aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts …
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We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …
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