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accumulation, and total factor productivity, unlike previous periods. Resources play a role by attracting capital inflows …
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The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China …'s domestic industrial enterprises during 1998-2007. They examine three institutional features that comprise aspects of China … for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and Hong Kong (SAR of China), Taiwan (China), and Macau (SAR of …
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integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … depended heavily on extraregional trade in final goods. While production networks centered on China have contributed …
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China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …. The inability to sell or mortgage rural land has further reduced opportunities. China has a uniquely decentralized fiscal …
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-fertilization of experiences. Total factor productivity comparisons suggest that capital accumulation in China coupled with more …A notable contrast in modern economic history has been the rapid economic growth of China and the slower and volatile … inequality, their growth trajectories have been divergent. What can Africa learn from China? Although the lessons vary depending …
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The authors develop a framework for studying trade in horizontally and vertically differentiated products. In their model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good and make a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution...
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The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low-income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...
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This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005, paying special attention to whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing world differently. Using a combination of static and...
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This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional … consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade …, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional …
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1/4 of the product scope expansion and 1/3 of the productivity gains within domestic firms …
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