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Economic Analysis and Countermeasures of Migrant Workers’ Problems
Song, Ju-fang - In: Asian Agricultural Research 03 (2011) 01
Generation and development of migrant workers’ problems are analyzed from the perspective of economics. There are economic factors causing migrant workers’ problems: imbalance in the industrial structure brings farmers living pressure; urban modern civilization is attractive to...
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“Harmonious” Norms for Global Marketing the Chinese Way
Choukroune, Leïla - In: Journal of Business Ethics 88 (2009) 3, pp. 411-432
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The Chinese Economy and Income Inequality among East Asian Countries
Sato, Sumie; Fukushige, Mototsugu - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2010
Using the Atkinson inequality measure of income distribution, we analyze the impact of China as a single country and … that China's domestic income inequality exacerbated income inequality among East Asian countries from the 1980s, and this … effect became even more pronounced from 1990. Second, the growth of China's per capita GDP had an equalizing effect on income …
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The Financial Crisis and China’s “Harmonious Societyâ€
Haan, Arjan de - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 39 (2010) 2, pp. 69-99
The global financial crisis has had a large negative impact on China’s economy, particularly on employment, but the government responses appear to have been effective. This article focuses on the social policy responses after the crisis, and how these are situated in the austere social...
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Sustaining Korea's convergence to the highest-income countries
Jones, Randall Sidney; Urasawa, Satoshi - 2012
While Korea remains one of the fastest-growing OECD economies, its potential growth rate per capita is projected to decelerate from around 4% during the current decade to around 2¼ per cent during the 2030s. Sustaining growth requires policies to mitigate the impact of rapid population ageing...
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Tax Misery and Tax Happiness : A Comparative Study of Selected Asian Countries
McGee, Robert W. - 2006
This article examines the relative tax burden of selected Asian economies from a microeconomic perspective. It employs data from the Tax Misery Index and the Index of Economic Freedom to compare the tax burden of selected Asian economies to that of some European and North American economies. It...
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Should Governments Tax the Rich and Subsidize the Poor? An Empirical Study of Opinion in 59 Countries
McGee, Robert W. - 2016
The present study reports the findings of a survey conducted by the World Values Survey scientists in 59 countries on the question of whether governments should tax the rich and subsidize the poor. A 10-point Likert Scale was used to determine the extent of agreement or disagreement with the...
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Sustaining Korea's Convergence to the Highest-Income Countries
Jones, Randall S.; Urasawa, Satoshi - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
While Korea remains one of the fastest-growing OECD economies, its potential growth rate per capita is projected to decelerate from around 4% during the current decade to around 2¼ per cent during the 2030s. Sustaining growth requires policies to mitigate the impact of rapid population ageing...
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Fiscal Prospects and Reforms in India
Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
Substantial fiscal consolidation was achieved under the aegis of the 2003 Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act. While deficits widened anew in 2008 and 2009, against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, efforts to reduce them have resumed since. To ensure...
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Internal Trade Barriers in India : Fiscal Check-Posts
Das-Gupta, Arindam - 2003
A subset of the costs (and benefits) of sub-national fiscal autonomy in federations is examined, with the major focus being road check-posts. The examination is done with reference to Indian states and using elementary, partial equilibrium, diagrammatic analysis. Empirical analyses of the...
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