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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
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A Model of Total Factor Productivity Built on Hayek’s View of Knowledge: What Really Went Wrong with Socialist Planned Economies?
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Because Hayek’s view goes beyond the Walrasian framework, his descriptive arguments on socialist planned economies are prone to be misunderstood. This paper clarifies Hayek’s arguments by using them as a basis to construct a model of total factor productivity. The model shows that...
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Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are investigated. We use household data collected in Ningxia autonomous region in 2007. It is found that compared with Han persons of the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter...
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GLOBALIZATION, LIBERALIZATION AND INCOME INEQUALITY: THE CASE OF CHINA
XUE, JINJUN; LUO, CHULIANG; LI, SHI - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 59 (2014) 01, pp. 1450002-1
This paper studies the mutual effects of globalization, liberalization and income inequality using a case study of China. Comparing the trends of economic growth and income distribution, we found that the economic reform and opening-up policy promoted China's rapid growth while inducing an...
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Does financial aid help poor students succeed in college?
Wang, Xiaobing; Liu, Chengfang; Zhang, Linxiu; Yue, Ai; … - In: China Economic Review 25 (2013) C, pp. 27-43
The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education. Although studies have shown that poor high school students...
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China’s Transition to a Knowledge Economy
Ramesh, Sangaralingam - In: Journal of the Knowledge Economy 4 (2013) 4, pp. 473-491
set of reforms over a 30-year period which effectively embedded knowledge creation in the Coastal regions of China. This … establishment of Special Economic Zones. The second process was accumulation of knowledge through the establishment of Science … the reform of China’s educational system. While the first two processes facilitated knowledge transfer and knowledge …
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Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Development
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2013
knowledge, innovation and growth in the past and by identifying whether and how the scope for catch-up growth exists. We focus …What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for … on the interesting case of technological innovation in the comparative economic performance of China; we draw some …
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Overview of an innovative EU–China collaboration in education and research in sustainable built environment
Yao, Runming; Steemers, Koen - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 9, pp. 2080-2087
sustainable built environment, which attempts to develop a network of practical and intellectual knowledge and training exchange …
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What do talents want? Work expectations in India, China, and Germany
Walk, Marlene; Schinnenburg, Heike; Handy, Femida - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 27 (2013) 3, pp. 251-278
International talent management becomes increasingly important, because companies compete on a global scale for qualified employees. Finding highly educated talent, however, is difficult, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. This research investigates the work expectations of Chinese (N=404),...
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China’s provincial disparities and the determinants of provincial inequality
Gries, Thomas; Redlin, Magarete - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2008
The paper explains the growth — inequality nexus for China’s provinces. The theoretical model of provincial development consists of two regions and studies the interactions of a mutually depending development process. Due to positive externalities, incoming trade and FDI induce imitation and...
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