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The cost of competitiveness of manufacturing in China and India : an industry and regional perspective
Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2008
manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003781188
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What can be learned about the economies of China and India from purchasing power comparisons?
Heston, Alan W. - 2008
Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798394
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An Empirical Reassessment of the Relationship between Finance and Growth
Favara, Giovanni - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
This paper re-examines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth. It presents evidence based on an updated data set, a variety of econometric methods and two standard measures of financial development: the level of liquid liabilities of the banking system and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858057
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Tourism and development : a recent phenomenon built on old (institutional) roots?
Brau, Rinaldo; Di Liberto, Adriana; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2010
Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702298
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Women's rights and development
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
Why has the expansion of women's economic and political rights coincided with economic development? This paper investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process of development (i.e., capital accumulation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729320
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Institutions do not rule : reassessing the driving forces of economic development
Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518018
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From institutions to financial development and growth : what are the links?
Fernández, Andrés; Tamayo, César E. - 2015
This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290078
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Capital goods trade and economic development
Piyusha, Mutreja; Ravikumar, B.; Sposi, Michael - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359539
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The incidence of recent child health improvements in Africa
Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380061