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The Implications of China's Ascendancy for Africa
Besada, Hany - 2008
China's spectacular economic progress has led some security analysts and policy makers in the North and the South to question Beijing's intentions in other parts of the world. This paper examines the extent to which China's engagement with Africa has produced mutual benefits for both and whether...
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What 31 provinces reveal about growth in China
Kerola, Eeva; Mojon, Benoît - 2021
increasingly more difficult after the real GDP doubling target was announced in 2012 and the official real GDP statistics lost …
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China Is Not yet Number One
Frankel, Jeffrey - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 10 (2015) 1, pp. 1-6
Many claim that China will soon overtake the US. I argue that this claim is based on a misuse of statistics. The International Comparison Program (ICP) price data is necessary to compare living standards, since a dollar¡¯s worth of yuan buys more in China than a dollar buys in the US. But the...
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What 31 provinces reveal about growth in China
Kerola, Eeva; Mojon, Benoît - 2021
increasingly more difficult after the real GDP doubling target was announced in 2012 and the official real GDP statistics lost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424978
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Understanding the Slowing Growth Rate of the People's Republic of China
Perkins, Dwight H. - In: Asian Development Review 32 (2015) 1, pp. 1-30
It is increasingly accepted that the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of the People's Republic of China (PRC … double-digit GDP growth. On the demand side, a low share of household income in GDP has required the PRC to maintain an … resources. Finally, the PRC has reached the point where the manufacturing share of GDP has peaked and will begin to decline as …
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Review Article on The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective by Angus Maddison
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 69-78
, with particular emphasis on his estimates of population, real GDP, and real GDP per capita for very long periods, going …
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Accounting for Unrepresentative Products and Urban-Rural Price Differences in International Comparisons of Real Income: An Application to the Asia-Pacific Region
Hill, Robert J.; Syed, Iqbal A. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Social- und … - 2012
The International Comparisons Program (ICP) run by the World Bank compares the purchasing power of currencies and real income across countries. Using a unique data set consisting of over 600,000 ICP price quotes drawn from nine countries in the Asia-Pacific region, we consider a number of ways...
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China's national production function since 1997 : a reinvestigation
Zhu, Yanyuan; Feng, Xiao - 2014
We build China’s national production function based on national accounting data since 1997, when China primarily transformed from the Planned economy to Market. By proxying and measuring stocks of human capital(HC), physical capital and the efficiency units, as well as government expenditure...
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China, Europe, and the great divergence : further concerns about the historical GDP estimates for China
Solar, Peter M. - 2021
Broadberry, Guan and Li (2018) made estimates for China's GDP per capita from 980 to 1840 in order to date the onset of …
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Monthly Industrial Output in China Since 1983
Holz, Carsten A. - 2013
Monthly economic indicators are used for a variety of purposes, from studying business cycles to determining economic policy and making informed business decisions. China's published monthly industrial output statistics could hardly be more confusing, with changes in variables, in coverage, in...
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