Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports....

Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports....

Summary We consider a non-parametric regression model with long-range dependent innovations, in which the regression function may have a discontinuity at an unknown point. We propose a method to estimate the unknown time of change. The rate of consistency and limit distribution of the...

Abstract In this paper we investigate the asymptotic properties of the test statistics for detecting change-points in the mean of a set of multivariate long-range dependent observations. The limit theorems of weighted test statistics and weighted L p -functionals of tests are developed. The...

Summary In this paper we study the integer-valued autoregressive model, which belongs to the class of thinning models with count data.We mainly focus on the random coefficient integer-valued autoregressive (RCINAR) model and propose a conditional least absolute deviation (CL 1 ) method to...

November 2000 - State policies can enormously influence gender equity. They can mitigate cultural constraints on women’s autonomy (as in China and India) or slow the pace of change in gender equity (as in the Republic of Korea). Policies to provide opportunities for women’s empowerment...