dataset. More than the catching-up effect, we will measure the convergence for three emerging countries: Brazil/China … past 10 years. A first contribution is that as the distance between the level of labor productivity in Brazil (China, India …

This paper attempts to examine, compare and forecast the per capita GDP of India, the USA, China, and Japan for a … ARIMA approach. The ARIMA equation varies for each country chosen. The notation for China is ARIMA (2,2,0), for India it is … the US & Japan. In the case of China, the catching-up effect takes place after 1989, as after that the GDP growth rate of …

This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low … one form or the other, these distortions have implied significant transfers from households to firms. If China is to …

compute capital and labor misallocations in China and India using data for 26 sectors over the period 1980-2010. Our findings … stemming from an efficient allocation of factors to range from 25% to 35% in China and from 35% to 40% in India. Finally, we …