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Irrigation, poverty and inequality in rural China
Huang, Qiuqiong; Dawe, David; Rozelle, Scott; Huang, Jikun - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 49 (2005) 2
distribution, inequality is decomposed by source of income, by group according to access to irrigation and by estimated income … poverty and inequality. …
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Do pension subsidies reduce household education expenditure inequality? : evidence from China
Dong, Shizheng; Zhang, Zili; Han, Yiduo; Si, Yanwu - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 87 (2023), pp. 532-540
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704720
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Blood for Social Status: Preliminary Evidence from Rural China
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Xi Chen acknowledges generous Doctoral Research Grant from the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University and precious data set provided by the Development Strategy and Governance Division at IFPRI. Conference Travel Grant provided by the Department of Applied Economics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012534
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Rural household income mobility in transitional China: Evidence from China Household Income Project
Yang, Sui - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015
Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was mu
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165755
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Inequality and Growth in Rural China: Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household … inequality is negatively related to subsequent household income growth. We are able to address a number of econometric issues … suggest that village inequality has an external adverse impact on household-level income trajectories. However, once we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761996
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Market Integration in the People’s Republic of China
Chen, Qingqing; Goh, Chor-Ching; Bo, Sun; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2022
Over the last 3 decades, the product, labor, and capital markets of the People’s Republic of China have become gradually more integrated within its borders, though integration has been significantly slower for capital markets. There remains a significant urban-rural divide, and cities in the...
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Business Regulatory Reforms : Recommendations for Lebanon
Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - 2013
This paper outlines short and long-term business regulatory reforms that Lebanon could implement to make doing business easier in the country. The short-term reforms represent “quick-wins” because they are primarily administrative in nature and can be accomplished quickly through ministerial...
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China’s Development Path : Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy
Li, Yin; Lazonick, William - 2022
We employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided...
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Public Education Spending and Poverty in Burkina Faso : A Computable General Equilibrium Approach
Balma, Lacina; Ilboudo, W. Francine Alida; Ouattarac, Adama - 2012
The paper analyses welfare and poverty implications of different options for creating and using fiscal space for public education expenditures. The analysis uses a multi sectoral computable general equilibrium model calibrated for Burkina Faso. Education is demanded by households as an...
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