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Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China
Demurger, Sylvie - 2002
Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their...
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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in GDP/capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
Wang, Jing - 2011
/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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Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among … economies for entry hold when considering changes in India's incumbent industry structures from 1989, determined before large …
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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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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 … compare changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows … in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459638
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China and India : Reforms and the Response
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different …Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India for most of these indicators. For instance, China … has a higher growth rate of per capita income, XGS and GFCF as also a higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India …
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Self-Defeating Regional Concentration
Matsuyama, Kiminori - 1993
We present a simple model of a two-region economy in which undesirable concentration may occur. With freedom to choose where to live, individuals in this economy concentrate into one region in their pursuit of better life, and end up becoming worse off. We characterize the conditions under which...
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Spatial Patterns of Development : A Meso Approach
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2017
Over the last two decades, the literature on comparative development has moved from country-level to within-country analyses. The questions asked have expanded, as economists have used satellite images of light density at night and other big spatial data to proxy for development at the desired...
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Regional Transfers
Corbi, Raphael - 2014
We exploit a series of discontinuities, at several population thresholds, in the allocation mechanism of federal transfers to municipal governments in Brazil to identify the causal effect of municipal spending on local labor markets, using a 'fuzzy' regression discontinuity design. Our estimates...
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan - 2014
In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...
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