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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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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276950
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Location Choice of Firms in Cities of India and China
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2022
This paper relates to economic change in India since 1991, and evaluates oneaspect of it, using China as a benchmark … question as to what determines the locational choice of firms in the urbanareas of India and China. I estimate the locational … firmssurveyed by the World Bank in India, and in China, amongst many other countries (calledas the Investment Climate Surveys (ICS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080182
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Revisiting Night Lights as Proxy for Economic Growth : A Multi-Year Light Based Growth Indicator (LBGI) for China, India and the U.S
Kulkarni, Rajendra - 2011
estimate economic activity at the sub-regional level in the U.S., India and China. The night lights based estimates of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128850
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Chinese Roads in India : The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development
Alder, Simon - 2019
regional development. I apply the analysis to India, a country with a notoriously weak and congested transportation … than India. I therefore use the model to gauge the effects of a counterfactual highway network for India that replicates … India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902762
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Catching Up or Falling Behind? Income Distribution of Chinese Cities
Ho, Chun-Yu; Li, Dan - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2007
This paper analyzes the evolution of Chinese urban income distribution across space and time in post-reform era. Our results suggest no evidence on income convergence across cities during the period 1984-2003. We find that cities with comparable income level are likely to be co-located in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200398
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From Government to Governance : Evidence from Border Adjustments in China
Wei, Xin; Xu, Jia; Zhang, Qinghua - 2023
This paper studies how administrative border adjustments influence individual firm productivity and local economic development. Exploiting a novel quasi-natural experiment conducted since the 1990s in China, our empirical analysis finds that district border adjustments (DBAs) significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350320
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From Government to Governance : Evidence from District Border Adjustment in Urban China
Wei, Xin; Xu, Jia; Zhang, Qinghua - 2022
This paper studies how administrative border adjustments influence individual firms’ productivity and local economic development. Exploiting a novel quasi-natural experiment conducted since 1990s in China, our empirical analysis finds that District Border Adjustment (DBA) significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243438
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An Asian Triangle of Growth and Cluster-to-Cluster Linkages
Kuchiki, Akifumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
It is expected that an Asian triangle of growth will be formed in the coming few decades. China, India and ASEAN …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744817
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Firm location choice in cities: Evidence from China, India and Brazil
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam; Wan, Guanghua - 2007
We use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India, and Brazil—Investment Climate … find that capital cities in all countries are attractive for firms to locate. In India and China, labour-intensive firms … attrition costs. Labour regulations both in India and China deter firms from locating in the larger cities, but not in Brazil …
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