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Fisker, Peter Simonsen - 2012

This study explores the economic consequences of earthquakes. In particular, it is investigated how exposure to earthquakes affects economic growth both across and within countries. The key result of the empirical analysis is that while there are no observable effects at the country level,...

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Finance and growth in a bank-based economy: is it quantity or quality that matters?

Koetter, Michael; Wedow, Michael - 2006

With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on the relation between finance and growth. We argue that most studies in the field fail to measure the quality of financial intermediation but rather resort to using proxies on the size of financial systems. Moreover, cross-country...

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Growing like India: The unequal effects of service-led growth

Fan, Tianyu; Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2023

Structural transformation in most currently developing countries takes the form of a rapid rise in services but limited industrialization. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to structurally estimate productivity growth in service industries that circumvents the notorious difficulties in...

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What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?

Heston, Alan - 2008

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …

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Childhood mortality and economic growth

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006

This paper investigates the extent to which the decline in child mortality over the last three decades can be attributed to economic growth. In doing this, it exploits the considerable variation in growth over this period, across states and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a...

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Comparing regional development in China and India

Wu, Yanrui - 2008

Economic growth in China and India has attracted many headlines recently. As a result, the literature comparing the two … the regions of China and India over the past twenty years. It also provides an assessment of regional disparity in the two …

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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion...

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What do we know about pro-poor growth and regional poverty in Nigeria?

Ichoku, Hyacinth Eme; Agu, Chukwuma; Ataguba, John Ele-Ojo - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 147-172

This study investigates the pro-poorness of income growth in Nigeria. Using nationally representative data for 1996 and 2004, overall income growth in Nigeria was found not to be pro-poor. The richer segments of the population appropriate greater share of benefits from economic growth. Household...

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Reforms, growth and persistence of gender gap: Recent evidence from private school enrolment in India

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha; Sharma, Anurag - 2011

This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …

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Is the elephant stepping on its trunk? The problem of India´s unbalanced growth

Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - 2007

It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However … development pattern in India. …

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