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Local government debt and economic growth in China
Wu, Yanrui - 2014
​China's local government debt (LGD) has recently become the focus of economic policy debates. However, information … investigation of the impact of China's LGD on economic growth. It is probably the first of its kind to focus on China and thus … assessment of LGD in China's regional economies, using recently released auditing statistics and other available secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148737
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Local Government Debt and Economic Growth in China
Wu, Yanrui - 2014
​China's local government debt (LGD) has recently become the focus of economic policy debates. However, information … investigation of the impact of China's LGD on economic growth. It is probably the first of its kind to focus on China and thus … assessment of LGD in China's regional economies, using recently released auditing statistics and other available secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040354
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership : The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China's Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John B.; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2021
surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325315
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Fiscal decentralisation, redistribution and reform in China
Knight, John B.; Li, Shi - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000907725
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584694
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584853
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Human capital, fertility and growth
Galor, Oded - 2006
The demographic transition that swept the world in the past 140 years has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed. The rise in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318907
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Economic growth in the very long-run
Galor, Oded - 2006
The evolution of economies during the major portion of human history was marked by Malthusian Stagnation. The transition from an epoch of stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth has shaped the contemporary world economy and has led to the Great Divergence in income per capita across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318941
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The demographic transition and the emergence of sustained economic growth
Galor, Oded - 2004
The demographic transition that swept the world in the course of the last century has been identified as one of the prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early stages of industrialization was ultimately reversed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318956
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Natural selection and the origin of economic growth
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2000
This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni…ed theory encompasses the observed evolution of population, technology and income per capita in the long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318963