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qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …
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qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …
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, the resulting estimates, labor productivity, and the characteristics of informal sector production units. …
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The economic success of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the last 3 decades has brought with it new challenges. Rising wages and population aging mean that future growth needs to rely more on productivity improvement through industrial upgrading and innovation, and transition from...
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In 1994 the World Bank called East Asia's strong economic growth performance a "miracle". Trade openness, high savings … was left unexplained. Research in the ensuing years has shown that when demographic change in East Asia is taken into … account, the miracle is explained. These earlier studies used the 1960-1990 sample period, but since 1990 Asia has undergone …
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dynamic evolution of past variation in birth and death rates, is producing a significant shift in age structure in Asia. The … consequences of population aging depend on behavioral responses to the shift in age structure: the female labor force participation … and economic growth. The results suggest that population aging may not significantly impede economic performance in Asia …
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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location.But the country faces many development challenges to … location between the People’s Republic of China and India, and act as a conduit between South and Southeast Asia.In order to …
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, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …
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, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning … surveys Mokyr’s important contributions to the field of economic history, and an essay by Mokyr himself on the origins of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097664