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innovation economics and development policy. We study the economic transition of the PR China from an agrarian country to a high … provinces and autonomous regions of the P.R. China, we also show that there are systematic relations between micro-level and …

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Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development

Bluhm, Richard - 2019

The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...

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Wealth inequality and economic growth : evidence from the world inequality database

Steenbrink, Rachel; Skali, Ahmed - 2024

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …

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Chapter 26. Social Capital

Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005

This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...

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The People's Republic of China in the middle-income trap?

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

-income economies. In particular, since the beginning of the growth slowdown of the economy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in …

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China in the middle-income trap?

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017 - (updated version)

China is, or will also be, confronted with such a trap. This paper analyzes the Chinese MIT situation taking into account … only survey the recent literature, but also make our own MIT forecasts and analyze under which condi-tions China could be …

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