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Post-disaster aid and development of the manufacturing sector : lessons from a natural experiment in China
Bulte, Erwin H.; Xu, Lihe; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: European economic review : EER 101 (2018), pp. 441-458
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975415
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Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear?
Kourtellos, Andros; Tan, Chih Ming; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: Journal of macroeconomics 29 (2007) 3, pp. 515-540
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003574897
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Is the Relationship Between Aid and Economic Growth Nonlinear?
Kourtellos, Andros; Tan, Chih Ming; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between foreign aid and growth using recently developed sample splitting methods that allow us to uncover evidence for the existence of heterogeneity and nonlinearity simultaneously. We also implement a new methodology that allows us to deal with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055543
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Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency : evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia
Ali, Merima; Peerlings, Jack; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 43 (2014) 3, pp. 697-709
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484314
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An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development : how much can Africa learn from Asia?
Diao, Xinshen (ed.); Takeshima, Hiroyuki (ed.);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute - 2020
An Evolving Paradigm for Africa and Synthesis of the Lessons from Asia -- Mechanization Outsourcing Clusters and … for Tractor Hiring Services -- Evolution of Agricultural Mechanization in Kenya -- Evolution of Agricultural Mechanization …"Agricultural mechanization has made slow progress in Africa south of the Sahara, while in many Asian countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248887
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Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia
Ali, Merima; Peerlings, Jack; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 3, pp. 697-709
Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development literature. In this paper, we show that industrial clusters, through specialization and division of labor, can ease the financial constraints of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959242
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Incremental Reform and Distortions in China’s Product and Factor Markets
Zhang, Xiaobo; Tan, Kong-Yam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
shown the opposite in the product market. This article argues that as the rent from China’s product market has been squeezed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836987
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Challenges of creating cities in China: Lessons from a short-lived county-to-city upgrading policy
Fan, Shenggen; Li, Lixing; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 3, pp. 476-491
It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to … promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical … governance structure, a city status can only be determined and awarded by the central government. In the 1980s and 1990s, China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599405
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Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production: Tales of 18 Natural Villages in China
Qin, Yu; Zhang, Xiaobo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/14/11.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020921
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Relative income, network interactions and social stigma
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2010
-wave census-type panel data in 18 villages in rural western China, two identification strategies, instrumental variable and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370726