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Diversity poses fundamental challenges to state-building and development. We study the effects of one of post-colonial Africa's largest policy experiments -- the Tanzanian Ujamaa policy -- which attempted to address these challenges. Ujamaa aimed to create a national identity and consolidate...
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forward. In this paper I illustrate this idea with a study of the People's Republic of China. Under the plan, prices were …
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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. Specifically, the resulting non-capitalist institutions are said to be …
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added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition …This paper applies a logistic smooth transition regression approach to the estimation of a homogenous aggregate value … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
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that the only industries in which listed companies in China display strong performance are public utilities, transportation …
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Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …
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best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude … gained from trade, and by some measures, more so than China. We sketch out a theory in which developing countries can grow … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …
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that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …
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Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control …
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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 …. We also find that China usually has a lower CV, namely a more stable performance. But over the three decades the CV falls …
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