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China's GDP Growth May be Understated
Clark, Hunter - 2017
Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its …
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2009
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...
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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
Acemoglu, Daron - 2007
This paper revisits and critically reevaluates the widely-accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that existing studies find support for this hypothesis because they fail to control for the presence of...
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Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth
Weil, David N. - 2005
I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to health, which I combine with cross-country and historical...
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Borders and Growth
Spolaore, Enrico - 2002
This paper presents a framework to understand and measure the effects of political borders on economic growth and per capita income levels. We present a model providing a theoretical foundation to estimate empirically the effects of political borders on growth. In our model, political...
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve : Exploring A Fresh Specification
Bradford, David F. - 2000
between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?
König, Michael - 2020
distribution of R&D and TFP growth in China during the period 2007--2012. The estimated model fits the Chinese data well. We …
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Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2003
and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource …
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From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China” : Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2016
relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is …, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and …
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Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean
Pritchett, Lant - 2014
substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there … are substantial reasons that China and India may grow much less rapidly than is currently anticipated. Most importantly … discontinuities account for a large fraction of the variation in growth rates. We suggest that salient characteristics of China …
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