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Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing East Asia regardless of their country of residence. The East Asian Gini index increased from 39.0 in 1988 to 43.3 in 2012. Inequality increased during the initial decade,...

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E-Commerce Development and Household Consumption Growth in China

Luo, Xubei - 2019

China has quickly become the largest e-commerce market in the world. By matching a nationally representative China Family Panel Studies survey with county-level e-commerce information obtained from Alibaba, this paper examines how e-commerce development has shaped household consumption growth in...

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Social Capital, Finance, and Consumption : Evidence from a Representative Sample of Chinese Households

Cull, Robert - 2018

Using a new, nationally representative sample of Chinese households, this paper studies how social capital affects access to credit and its implications for consumption levels. The paper focuses on two specific forms of social capital: private social networks and membership in the Communist...

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Measuring the Effect of Internet Adoption on Paper Consumption

Andres, Luis Alberto - 2017

A large fraction of the total supply of paper is produced with technologies that have serious adverse consequences on the environment and cause significant health problems, such as cancer. This paper reports on how Internet adoption affects paper consumption. The study used country-level panel...

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Seasonality in Local Food Markets and Consumption : Evidence from Tanzania

Kaminski, Jonathan - 2020

This paper revisits the extent of seasonality in African livelihoods. It uses 19 years of monthly food prices from 20 markets and three years of nationally representative household panel surveys from Tanzania. Trigonometric specifications are introduced to measure the seasonal gap. When samples...

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The Economic Consequences of Health Shocks

Wagstaff, Adam - 2017

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The Heterogeneous Growth Effects of the Business Environment : Firm-Level Evidence for a Global Sample of Cities

Reyes, Jose Daniel - 2017

business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …

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Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, and Cities

Lerner, Josh - 2017

Since the 2008-09 global financial crises, interest among policy makers in promoting innovative, ventures has exploded. The emerging great hubs of entrepreneurial activity, like Bangalore, Dubai, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Tel Aviv, bear the unmistakable stamp of the public sector....

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SME Contributions to Employment, Job Creation, and Growth in the Arab World

Nasr, Sahar - 2017

employment, promoting inclusive growth, and improving competitiveness. In the short run, weakened macroeconomic fundamentals in … policies across sectors to create productive employment and promote economic growth. Supporting innovation and enhancing access …

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Weathering a Storm : Survey-Based Perspectives on Employment in China in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis

Giles, John - 2017

financial crisis. Most of these layoffs affected migrant workers, who have typically lacked employment protection, tend to be … employment shock was short-lived. By mid-2009, the macroeconomic stimulus and other interventions had succeeded in boosting … the crisis, and notes the biases associated with alternative ex post efforts to measure the employment effects of the …

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