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Trends in Regional Inequality in China
Jian, Tianlun - 1996
convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China … coastal and interior provinces, rather than increase in variance within each other. Therefore, it seems that China is now on a …
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International Trade and Per Capita Income Convergence : A Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1998
In this paper I analyze whether international trade contributes to per capita income convergence across countries. The analysis focuses on four important post-1945 multilateral trade liberalizations. To identify trade's effect on income dispersion, in each case I use a difference-in-differences'...
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Per Capita Income Convergence and the Role of International Trade
Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1997
The recent literature on cross-country convergence of per capita income has largely ignored international trade. The reason might be perspective. Most convergence papers frame the analysis in a `Solow world' in which countries exist independent of one another. But most international trade...
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Economic Growth and Convergence, Applied Especially to China
Barro, Robert J. - 2016
From the perspective of conditional convergence, China's GDP growth rate since 1990 has been surprisingly high. However …, China cannot deviate forever from the global historical experience, and the per capita growth rate is likely to fall soon … from around 8% per year to a range of 3 4%. China can be viewed as a middle-income convergence-success story, grouped with …
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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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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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Urban-Biased Growth : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...
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Has China's Growth Gone From Miracle to Malady?
Prasad, Eswar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
China's remarkable run of persistently high growth in recent decades is all the more stunning in light of the country …
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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? : Evidence from Chemistry
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential …
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