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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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innovation economics and development policy. We study the economic transition of the PR China from an agrarian country to a high … provinces and autonomous regions of the P.R. China, we also show that there are systematic relations between micro-level and …
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more traditional. Dispersion and decentralization of industries to achieve lower income inequality between provinces would …
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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects …
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Abstract This paper examines the relationship between culture and the economy, investigating the role of clan in China …'s unprecedented development of the private sector. Although with no well-developed financial and legal systems, China witnesses a boom …-census population survey and economic census data, I find that China's clan culture is positively associated with the likelihood of …
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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion dollar infrastructure investment project, is heralded as a … initiative led by China, known as ‘One Belt, One Road' (OBOR), to connect Asia with Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the CPEC …
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Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …
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on economic activity (night lights and GDP), together with the lack of significant in uence on patterns of inequality …
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African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …
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