We use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India, and Brazil?Investment Climate … find that capital cities in all countries are attractive for firms to locate. In India and China, labour-intensive firms … attrition costs. Labour regulations both in India and China deter firms from locating in the larger cities, but not in Brazil …

We use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India, and Brazil—Investment Climate … find that capital cities in all countries are attractive for firms to locate. In India and China, labour-intensive firms … attrition costs. Labour regulations both in India and China deter firms from locating in the larger cities, but not in Brazil …

aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper …

rural China, its trend and geographical distribution. Determinants or drivers of changes in the size of middle class are … middle class in rural China. Findings – Major findings include: in 2007, as many as 398 million rural residents or almost 54 … percent of China's rural population belonged to the middle class; the size estimate of China's rural middle class based on …

China has been running a large trade surplus with the rest of the world, particularly with the USA and EU. This has …, mostly focus on real exchange rate and income as determinants of China's trade imbalances. Little attention has been given to … literature by adding FDI to China's trade balance model. Fitting aggregate annual data from 1979 to 2007 to SURE (Seemingly …

panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …