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As the 20th anniversary of the transition to democracy approaches in 2014, the economic policy debates in South Africa are in full flow. The forthcoming Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa contributes to the policy and analytical debate by drawing together perspectives on a range...
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This paper attempts to understand Asian Drama in the context of the development debates of its time, and in terms of the sensibilities that Gunnar Myrdal - the brilliant economic theorist and philosopher of knowledge, and Swedish politician - brought to the conceptualization of the problems and...
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case studies rather than cross-country regression analysis; (ii) the phenomenon of increasing inequality; (iii) different …) alternative modes of redistribution in face of inequality increasing tendencies. …
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China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social … regional inequality in China. The object of this volume is to bring together a selection of these papers by us and our co … compact and thus the political basis for economic growth and social development. The regional dimension of inequality— rural …
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This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
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versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality … relevant to understanding current phenomena like the evolution of Chinese inequality. The paper shows how the Kuznetsian … framework can be used, for example, in predicting the differential relationship between urbanization and inequality in India …
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