This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … subnational authorities over general nomic activity. In particular, the case of China, where town and village enterprises have …

This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … subnational authorities over general economic activity. In particular, the case of China, where town and village enterprises have …

China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently …

China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently …

We give an empirical examination of the impact of fiscal and economic decentralization in China on the country … offers strong evidence that there is a connection between decentralization and macroeconomic performance in China. Economic … decentralization appears to be positively related to growth in real output for the entire postwar period in China. Fiscal …

composite error term method yields estimates of large underreporting of IMRs over time and provinces in China during the past 30 … years. China does not follow the standard growth paradigm of more growth leading to lower IMRs. Fiscal decentralization has … minimal level of demographic distress across provinces with millions of missing females not fully included in the data. China …