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China's fast growth has been accompanied by rising regional inequality, triggering debate over a policy trade …-off between aggregate growth and equity. We set out a three-region model of China in which local government behavior affects local …
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This article examines recent and potential reforms in India’s fiscal federal system. We summarize key federal institutions in India, including tax and expenditure assignments, and mechanisms for Center-state transfers. We discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take...
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This article examines the nature of India's federal system, and recent and potential reforms in its structure and working. We summarize key federal institutions in India, focusing particularly on the mechanisms for Center-state transfers. These transfers are large, and are the major explicit...
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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 …
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privatization * labour market and industrial policy, including an analysis of wage restraint and cost reduction * the prospects for …
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One might observe some stability of the basics of the typical welfare state models which were laid out by Esping-Andersen and elaborated on in further studies. However, these stable institutions are not immune from the influence of external destabilizing factors which force institutions to...
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