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This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and informality and highlights the role of GDP growth and its composition in the level and evolution of informality, using country data from 1991 to 2019. The analysis reveals a weak relationship, although with important differences...
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The share of private consumption has long been small in the Chinese GDP. The share started to increase in the past decade, but the trend reversed with the covid-19 pandemic. Now as the Chinese economy reopens and recovers from covid restrictions, the share of consumption could return to a...
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In recent years, China's labour market has seen a significant rise of the new forms of employment, which differs in … employment patterns in China, including app-based gig work, micro-task crowdsourcing, prosumer work, and platform outsourcing to …
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Digital labour platforms have been proliferating in China since 2005, making China one of the world’s largest platforms economies. This paper summarizes the results of an ILO survey, conducted in 2019, of workers’ characteristics and working conditions on three major digital labour...
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We compare the economic and environmental performances of India and China over the past decade against the Euro Area …, Japan, and the USA. India has emerged as the world's fastest growing large economy, but closer scrutiny suggests this …-Samuelson effect. Indeed, notwithstanding its superior level of economic development relative to India, China still posts stronger …
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This paper revisits the relationship between economic growth and employment creation as expressed in Okun’s law by … needed to better understand the relationship between economic growth and employment, especially in the presence of high …
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