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Rural-to-Urban Migration in Developing Countries : The Applicability of the Harris Todaro Model with a Special Focus on the Chinese Economy

Bahns, Karin Margarethe - 2005

Die Arbeit untersucht die Anwendbarkeit des HarrisTodaro Modells für Land-Stadt-Migrations-Prozesse inEntwicklungsländern. Dabei geht es nicht nur um das Basismodel,sondern auch um die Modell-Erweiterungen, die internationalenHandel, einen städtischen informellen Sektor und die Aspekte...

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Female Entrepreneurs in Transitional Economies: a comparative study of Businesswomen in Nigeria and China

Kitching, Beverley; Woldie, Atsese - 2004

This paper focuses on the theme of women entrepreneurs, business and gender in two transitional economies, namely Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and 2000 pointed out, a situation where women are...

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What drives fiscal decentralisation? Further assessing the role of income

Bodman, Philip; Hodge, Andrew - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...

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Strukturelle Veränderungen der chinesischen Automobilzulieferindustrie im Kontext von Öffnungspolitik und WTO-Beitritt

Pesselhoy, Katja - 2005

. Sie war klein, von preiswerten einheimischen Nutzfahrzeugen geprägt, rückständig und vom Rest der Welt isoliert. Heute … chinesischer Hersteller gewarnt. Welche Entwicklung hat stattgefunden, die es der chinesischen Automobilindustrie innerhalb weniger … seit den Siebzigerjahren und die wichtigsten Einflussfaktoren für ihre Entwicklung auf makroökonomischer Ebene untersucht …

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Developing Country Trade: Implications of China’s Changing Trade and Competitiveness in Intensive and Extensive Margin Goods

Somwaru, Agapi; Tuan, Francis; Gehlhar, Mark J.; Diao, … - 2008

This paper delves into China’s differential growths in trade flows with high income and developing countries by focusing on bilateral content of trade data over the time period 1978-2005. Unlike other studies, we account for end use of traded goods ranging from primary, intermediate, and...

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The economics of road safety: an international perspective

McManus, W. - 2007

This report examines some recent explanations for the rising road fatality rates in developing countries. A key insight of these recent studies is that road fatalities per capita follow a Kuznets curve (an inverted-U shaped pattern with rising income per capita). The rising fatalities per capita...

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Global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change

Michael Hübler - 2010

This thesis is a collection of research papers examining global economic integration, technology diffusion and climate change and their interactions and policy implications. Chapter 1 theoretically analyzes the effect of changes in regional production costs on the inter-regional allocation of...

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