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reports estimates of substitution elasticities for normalized nested CES aggregate production functions for China with … substitution elasticity between capital and labor for China is below unity. When human capital adjusted labor is used as input …
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The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different …Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India for most of these indicators. For instance, China …. We also find that China usually has a lower CV, namely a more stable performance. But over the three decades the CV falls …
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Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water … availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more … accounting approach to investigate both the contribution played in the past by water availability in constraining China's growth …
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going beyond WTO disciplines and focused on issues such as regulation and border controls. Though the US, Australia and … other pacific countries are included, China is notable for its exclusion from the process thus far. This paper uses … numerical simulation methods to assess the potential effects of a TPP agreement on China and the other participating countries …
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country, single period numerical general equilibrium model which captures China and her major trading partners and examine the … outcomes of trade policy bargaining solutions (bargaining over tariffs and financial transfers) over time as China grows more … parameterizations. This yields a measure of both absolute and relative gain to China from bargaining. We calibrate our model to base …
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/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North-China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …
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This paper uses a firm level multi-industry data set covering 456 Chinese manufacturing sectors to assess the implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates. We stress differences in both industry and firm characteristics within...
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In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies) was around 6%, or 2 percentage points above mean growth rates for the preceding 10 years. This period also coincided with significant Chinese FDI flows into these countries,...
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as it substitutes expenditures into own goods and improve its terms of trade with non retaliatory regions, while China …, while the surplus region, China, and the ROW have welfare gains. In both models, when the bilateral tariff rates are very … will are borne by the US and China in lost exports, lowered terms of trade and adjustment costs at home …
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This paper presents numerical simulation results that suggest that China can both reduce its trade imbalance and … switching is thus a possibility for China to receive a double benefit, rebalancing trade with a welfare gain. This has … countries with a trade surplus, such as China, an origin basis offers a lower tax rate on an equal yield basis and reduced …
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