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Changing China : Three Decades of Social Transformation
Yeoh, Emile - 2014
China is a country in great transformation. Over the last three decades the highly remarkable economic performance of … the once low-income and inward-looking state of China has attracted increasing interest from academics and policymakers …. China's astounding transformation is reflected not only in her economy, but also in her social changes in the past few …
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State Versus Private Provision : How Does China’s Market-Oriented Reform Affect Healthcare Delivery?
Fang, Guanfu - 2019
China's health care industry. However, in the early 2000s, the eastern China city of Suqian privatized all its hospitals and …
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Die ökonomische und wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklung Lateinamerikas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
Foders, Federico - 2001
This paper first analyzes the comparative economic growth performance of Latin America in the period 1950-2001. Then it reviews industrial and trade policies, macroeconomic stabilization and institutional development in Latin American countries. In the final section the emerging approach to...
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Die ökonomische und wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklung Lateinamerikas nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
Foders, Federico - 2001
In diesem Beitrag wird zunächst das Wirtschaftswachstum Lateinamerikas im Zeitraum 1950-2001 im internationalen Vergleich untersucht. Daran schließt sich eine Analyse der Industrie- und Handelspolitik, der makroökonomischen Stabilisierung und der institutionellen Entwicklung in den...
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Pro-Market Reforms and Indian Industry : Developments in the Last Two Decades
Goldar, Bishwanath - 2010
The post-1991 pro-market reforms in India are expected to reduce price-cost margins in industries, lower inter-firm productivity dispersion, increase export intensity of firms, and cause changes in the size structure and industrial composition. But, barring the increase in export intensity, the...
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Has the Chilean Neo-Liberal Experiment Run Out of Fuel? A View On Specialisation, Technological Gaps and Catching-Up
Di Maio, Michele - 2007
Due to an extraordinary growth performance during the last two decades the Chilean neo-liberal model of development, based on the exploitation of the country's static comparative advantages, has turned into a benchmark for most developing countries. The aim of this paper is to discuss the long...
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The Role of Infrastructure in Mexican Economic Reform
Feltenstein, Andrew; Ha, Jiming - 2005
This article estimates the relationship between the provision of public infrastructure and private output in sixteen sectors in Mexico. The sector-specific cost functions depend on wages, the cost of capital, and the nominal values of the stocks of three types of infrastructure: electricity,...
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Services Policy Reform and Economic Growth in Transition Economies, 1990-2004
Eschenbach, Felix; Hoekman, Bernard - 2014
Major changes have occurred in the structure of former centrally planned economies, including a sharp rise in the share of services in GDP, employment and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition economies with respect to services intensity and services...
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Technology and Institutions in the Process of Economic Reform : Achieving Growth with Poverty Reduction in South Asia
Adams, John Q.; Brunner, Hans-Peter - 2015
The prime premise in Clarence Ayres's Theory of Economic Progress (1962; c1944) is that the pace of advance in a society is driven by cumulative technological evolution. Technology is not tools alone, but encompasses irreducibly the human skills and ideas necessary to make and use tools for...
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Politics and Economic Reform in Malaysia
Ritchie, Bryan K. - 2004
reform and retarded technological development, leaving Malaysia mired in mediocrity: neither price competitive with China nor …
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