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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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from its continued reliance on capital accumulation, China can grow at a healthy pace and maintain its convergence toward …
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domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de facto research centers in China and investigate whether the effect of R …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology … differences across three major regions in China, we use a novel semiparametric approach that allows us to model heterogeneities …
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, we find that O-FDI in other countries enhances productivity in Taiwan, while O-FDI in China does not. We interpret the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces of China's recent rapid economic growth and … the general concern of widening regional inequalities in China, the findings show a striking trend of convergence among … among regions could give evidence on the sustainability of rapid economic growth in China in the near future. In addition …
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, utilising China¡¯s provincial data from 1984 to 1997. We find a bidirectional causal linkage between FDI and productivity growth … across the regions in China, suggesting that changes in FDI intensity Granger-cause changes in productivity, and vice versa …. China¡¯s economic growth is found largely due to the rapid expansion of investment in fixed assets. Human capital …
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