using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and … foreigners in China were tried according to the laws of their country of origin (extraterritoriality). To better understand the …

developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of …

/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 …

market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank%u2019s desire to hold a …

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 … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …

Following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of China increased relative … to that of India, and, simultaneously, FDI inflows relative to GDP for China versus India declined. These observations … inherited from the previous generation. The resulting increase in China's (domestic K)/L thus ‘crowds out' the need for FDI in …