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By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on whether, under the economic liberalization program...
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The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more … permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates thesignificant impact of a neglected factor: India's policy reforms in …
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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 … poor areas and poor households, and rebalance the economy away from investment and exports toward domestic consumption and …
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This paper examines the extent to which the growth of China and India in world markets is affecting the patterns of … direction of the trade specialization pattern of China and India. Labor-intensive sectors (both unskilled and skilled) probably … have been negatively affected by the growing presence of China and India in world markets, while natural resource and …
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Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different … twice as important for India as for China, which is much better integrated into global production networks. Even assuming … India also begins to integrate into global production chains and expands exports of manufactures, there seems to be …
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India.Part 2 compares two business as usual scenarios with a set of alternate scenarios based on policy interventions on the … results suggest that energy externalities are likely to worsen significantly if there is no shift in China's and India …'s energy strategies. High energy demand from China and India could constrain some developing countries' growth through higher …
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The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant … and development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have …
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This paper uses data from the National Financial Inclusion Survey 2018 to understand the determinants of financial inclusion in Sri Lanka and their significance for inclusive growth. The findings highlight that gender, education, and formal employment are important determinants of financial...
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India has attained much economic success in the past three decades. Yet an economic deceleration in recent years has … generated worried commentaries about the country's growth outlook. This paper offers a long-term perspective on India's growth … exports. Even as the economy has now recovered to a growth rate of 7 to 7.5 percent, durably accelerating it to a higher level …
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India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …
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