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Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small : The Transformation of the State Sector in China
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2015
Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...
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Understanding China'S Economic Performance
Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Woo, Wing Thye - 2021
Broadly speaking, two schools of thought have emerged to interpret China's rapid growth since 1978:the experimentalist school and the convergence school. The experimentalist school attributes China's successes to the evolutionary, experimental, and incremental nature of China's reforms....
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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking
Mishra, Prachi - 2019
Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state …
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Back on the Rails : Competition and Productivity in State-Owned Industry
Das, Sanghamitra - 2010
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill in India to …
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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …
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China and India : Reforms and the Response: How Differently Have the Economies Behaved
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
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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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …
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Dynamic Labor Demand in China : Public and Private Objectives
Cooper, Russell - 2010
This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two dimensions. First, it uncovers the objectives of public enterprises and compares them to private enterprises. Second, it estimates adjustment costs of these plants and thus their...
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The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle : a Firm-Level Cross-Country Perspective
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2010
China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms, especially in resource sectors, and mis-governance of...
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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist features disguise the profoundly unfamiliar foundations of "market socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by controlling the career advancement...
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