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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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China’s Demography and its Implications
Lee, Il Houng; Qingjun, Xu; Syed, Murtaza H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
In coming decades, China will undergo a notable demographic transformation, with its old-age dependency ratio doubling to 24 percent by 2030 and rising even more precipitously thereafter. This paper uses the permanent income hypothesis to reassess national savings behavior, with greater...
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China's high savings : drivers, prospects, and policies
Zhang, Longmei; Brooks, Ray; Ding, Ding; Ding, Haiyan; … - 2018
China's high national savings rate-one of the highest in the world-is at the heart of its external/internal imbalances. High savings finance elevated investment when held domestically, or lead to large external imbalances when they flow abroad. Today, high savings mostly emanate from the...
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A National Systems View of University Development: Towards a Broadened Perspective on the Entrepreneurial University Based on the German and US Experience
Lehrer, Mark; Nell, Phillip; Gärber, Lisa - 2007
This paper postulates a life cycle model of university entrepreneurialism at the national level. Based on the analysis, this paper identifies two fundamental sources of such entrepreneurialism: 1) the institutional anchoring of the university of a public-private hybrid form in organization and...
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Unified China and Divided Europe
Ko, Chiu Yu - 2017
This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We argue that a severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered centralization in China while Europe faced a wider variety of smaller external threats and remained...
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Geopolitics and Asia's Little Divergence : A Comparative Analysis of State Building in China and Japan after 1850
Koyama, Mark; Moriguchi, Chiaki; Sng, Tuan-Hwee - 2015
We provide a new framework to account for the diverging paths of political development and state building in China and Japan during the second half of the nineteenth century. The arrival of Western powers not only brought opportunities to adopt new technologies, but also fundamentally threatened...
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Openness and urbanization : the case of the People's Republic of China
Lo, Chu-ping - 2016
Urbanization usually occurs with structural transformation driven by a "push" from agricultural productivity growth and … the "pull" effect dominated the "push" effect during the PRC's structural transformation and urbanization. This model … services intensity increases with its urbanization. …
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Migration in the People's Republic of China
Lu, Ming; Xia, Yiran - 2016
opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of … interregional migration. Facing the challenges of fast urbanization and growing urban diseases, local governments still rely on the … lead to more social problems. Policy makers should reconsider the way to achieve efficient and harmonious urbanization by …
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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills
Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016
In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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