adjust daily COVID-19 deaths to match weekly excess mortality. Focusing on Sweden, the only country that has good data and … studies appears mainly driven by the large changes in testing frequency that occurred in Sweden during the period considered. …

down on research and development (R&D) spending and STEM-oriented human capital. In this paper, we assess China's progress … research and patents. We then evaluate how China has fared with respect to the ultimate goal of commercialising this progress … bottlenecks that might be hindering the translation of China's innovation efforts into productivity growth. …

Cost has a significant impact on competitiveness within the shipbuilding industry. In China, low costs have created … favourable conditions for domestic shipyards competing in the international market. However, China's shipbuilders have been … China's shipbuilding cost and its impact on the competitiveness of China's shipbuilding industry. We make comparisons with …

China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank …Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …