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Independent and high-quality evaluations of government policies are an important input for designing evidence-based policy. Lack of incentives and institutions to write such evaluations, on the other hand, carry the risk of turning the system into a costly beauty contest. We study one of the...
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China's three-decade infrastructure investment boom shows few signs of abating. Is China's economic growth a … investment is a precursor to economic growth. China is held up as a model to emulate. Politicians in rich democracies display awe … consequence of its purposeful investment? Is China a prodigy in delivering infrastructure from which rich democracies could learn …
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The Chinese economy does still not qualify as demand-driven economy. Its growth is based on investment. In fact … successive waves of investment have emerged during the eighties and produced a piling-up of productive systems. A wave of small … national enterprises and entrepreneurs, a second large wave of foreign direct investment from overseas Chinese mainly from Hong …
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relation between investment, finance, and growth in China, <i>How China Grows</i> dismisses this concern. James Riedel, Jing … Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too … Jin, and Jian Gao argue that investment has not only been the engine of growth, but also the main source of technological …
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In this paper, we analyze the role played by imports and investment on labor productivity and output in China from 1964 … facilitated industrialization and rapid growth in China. However, as we know that there could be other factors influencing … of their causality. In addition, we investigate the role played by the exchange rate on growth and discuss some policy …
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restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices …
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In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...
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In this paper we study income polarization by first comparing the efficiency of two statistical models to identify the number of poles in the income distribution empirically. The statistical models used are a multi-resolution analysis (MRA) and a log-normal approach (LNA). We then apply the...
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). Finally we study the causes of the obtained polarization results in a multinomial logit analysis. -- polarization ; poverty …
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; poverty ; multi-resolution analysis ; income distribution …
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