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We study the demand for government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both sides of the market: the capital investors and...
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The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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This paper begins with examining Bangladesh's economic structural transformation during 1980-2010, which is compared …. It also reviews the evolution of Bangladesh's macroeconomic uncertainty for each decade (i.e., the 1980s, 1990s and the … 2000s). It shows, for example, that Bangladesh's GDP volatility and uncertainty have been increasing over time. Reflecting …
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With ready-made garments accounting for almost 85% of Bangladesh’s exports, limited export diversification remains a … why Bangladesh’s export revenue is heavily dependent on a few products and why diversifying export earnings is challenging …
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This paper assesses the technical efficiency and profitability of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh taking into … estimation results indicate the high profitability of the knitwear firms. In Bangladesh, the dynamic development of the industry …
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2008 in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya and Madagascar, the following conclusions are drawn: (1) low wages, though still …
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Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the 'developer's dilemma'. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two distinct episodes over the post-independence...
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its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
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We examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data … Kuznets hypothesis, we find that the movement of workers to manufacturing unambiguously decreases income inequality … into services has a positive impact on inequality across our set of countries at an early stage of structural …
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its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
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