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While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the...
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Chinese rural industry has grown three times faster than national GDP, surpassing agriculture in size in 1987, and now nearing half of the total Chinese economy. We use a rich, new county-level data set to explore this dramatic growth. We find that a Cobb-Douglas production function explains...
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cash transfer program - worth almost USD 1,000 over 6 years - and in a nationwide scaleup, whereby Indonesia used community …
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growth in Indonesia in a large panel of plants between 1975 and 2005, and especially in plants taken over by foreign owners …
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, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in …
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Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations --licenses and levies --imposed by local government … latter is capitalized into lower salaries needed by localities to compensate public officials. Localities in Indonesia are … reduction in regulation in better funded localities. The findings are directly relevant to Indonesia where corruption is high …
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This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 …
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improved wages for unskilled workers in sweatshop industries, but probably encouraged some plants to leave Indonesia …
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down production. This paper asks whether foreign owners are more likely to close plants than domestic owners. In Indonesia …
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institution fostered the entrenchment of Islamism at a critical juncture in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. In the …
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