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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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Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China …'s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …
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Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China …'s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …
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This paper studies the misallocation of intermediate inputs in China’s firm-leveldata, eliminating which would increase the average industry’s gross output by 2.93%.We document evidence of pre-pay and financial frictions on intermediate inputs behindthe misallocation. We build these...
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We examine the return to innovation in terms of economic growth at the provincial level to assess whether or not policies that promote R&D, such as China’s Science and Technology Policy, have been productive for all of China’s regions. The return to innovation at the provincial level is...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231008
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new economic superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades....
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in Africa’s investment risk, an increase in its total factor productivity (TFP) and an improvement of its worker skills …
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This is a review article by Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards of Angus Maddison's path-breaking new book, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. The article summarizes Maddison's key findings in a number of areas, with particular emphasis on his estimates of...
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economic and demographic change - an economic demography transition approach - has never been more pressing. Thanks partly to …'s consequential and ongoing economic demography transition strategy within the economic and development policy discourse. Amid epochal … demographic, public health, and geo-economic change, this economic demography perspective is timely, unique and useful in …
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