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How rich is China and how fast has the economy grown? Statistical controversies

Wu, Harry W - 1998

Correctly measuring a country’s national income and its growth is essential to the understanding of various aspects of the country’s economy both at present and in the future. The measurement issue is even more important for economies like China whose size-based economic-political power is...

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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China’s Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2005

Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China’s transition—both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...

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An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises

Ahuja, Gautam; Majumdar, Sumit K. - 1998

the manufacturing sector that can be candidates for privatization are the smaller and older manufacturing firms. These …

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The balance between equity and efficiency in Australian public policy

Argy, Fred - 1996

1. Australia has performed quite well over the last two decades in terms of real GDP per head; the GDP gains have not been fully reflected in other economic welfare measures (section 1). 2. Most economic reforms have important distributional effects, and these are often prolonged and enduring....

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Behavioural differences among Chinese firms - from the perspective of earnings determination

Meng, Xin; Perkins, Frances - 1996

Firms with different ownership structure behave differently. Currently there are three major ownership structures in China’s industrial sector: state enterprises, collective enterprises, and private enterprises. Market-oriented economic reform has given great autonomy to firm managers in terms...

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Labour market outcomes in the UK, NZ, Australia and the US: observations on the impact of labour market and economic reforms

Gregory, R.G - 1999

There is no doubt that large changes in government policy towards economic reform are vitally important: some two decades ago Myanmar (Burma) was among the Asian nations with the highest per capita income but, by turning away from economic reform, government policy prevented the economy from...

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Particularistic and System Trust among Small and Medium Enterprises: A Comparative Study in China's Transition Economy

Tan, Justin; Yang, Jun; Veliyath, Rajaram - 2009

Guanxi, a type of particularistic trust observed in Confucian societies has mostly been viewed as a static phenomenon. It is not clear how the role of guanxi changes over time during institutional transitions. This field study of twenty one small and medium enterprises (SMEs) located in two...

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Economic Reforms and Pro-Poor Growth: Lessons for Africa and other Developing Regions and Economies in Transition

Kimenyi, Mwangi S. - 2006

The paper discusses the meaning and measurement of pro-poor growth and also reviews evidence of pro-poor growth (or the lack of it) in a large cross-section of countries and time periods. The emerging story is that many episodes of growth are not pro-poor and also that although economic reforms...

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Privatization and performance: Evidence from telecommunications sector

Ariff, Mohamed; Cabanda, E; Sathye, M - 2008

There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises … of telecommunication firms around the world, 4 years before and 4 years after privatization, using two parallel measures … could corroborate stronger evidence for or against maintained hypothesis of performance improvements after privatization …

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On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms

Viverita,; Ariff, Mohamed - 2008

and revisits policy implications. Practical implications – No one policy fits all in Indonesia for privatization programme …

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