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How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
Kohn, Meir - 2010
Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
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CHINA'S INTEGRATION INTO THE WORLD ECONOMY
Whalley, John (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
This book discusses China's integration into the world economy, drawing on papers previously written by the editor. It focuses on strong trade growth, FDI inflows, innovation policy (including transfer of technology and intellectual property), the role of saving, and the accumulation of human...
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Interregiona;Decomposition of labor productivity differences in China, 1987-1997
Yang, Ling; Lahr, Michael; L - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The literature on regional disparities in China is both broad and deep. Nonetheless much of its focus has been on the effects of trade liberalization and national policies toward investment in interior provinces. Few pieces have examined whether the disparities might simply be due to differences...
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Infrastructure, urbanization, and demand for bank and non-bank loans of households in the People's Republic of China
Lyons, Angela C.; Grable, John E.; Zeng, Ting - 2017
controlling for other factors, suggesting that there may be an "urbanization effect" that is dampening credit access and usage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689720
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Government-led urbanization and natural gas demand in China
Cai, Zhengyu; Yu, Chin-Hsien; Zhu, Chunhui - 2021
The Chinese government is actively promoting urbanization to stimulate its economic growth while facing increasingly … efforts to promote cleaner energy demand while pushing for urbanization. This study employs system GMM models to empirically … investigate the causal relationship between urbanization and natural gas demand by using a sample of 30 provinces in China over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494143
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The impacts of financial development, urbanization, and globalization on income inequality : a regression-based decomposition approach
Lee, Wai Choi; Cheong, Tsun Se; Wu, Yanrui - 2017
This paper aims to study the impacts of financial development, urbanization, and globalization on income inequality in … suggest that financial development, urbanization, and globalization exert a positive impact on income. However, the … contributions of urbanization, foreign investment, physical capital, and human capital to regional inequality are positive. Moreover …
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China's Great Boom as a Historical Process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2020
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497841
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China'S Great Boom as a Historical Process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2021
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314817
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China‘s great boom as a historical process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2020
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012373127