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cotton cloth in India during 1795-1940, and based on these numbers, revisits three issues central to interpretations of … economic change in colonial India. These are: (a) trends in levels of living, (b) the correlation between production of … textiles and consumption of textiles, and (c) consumption of clothing in India in relation to the rest of the world. …
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. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies … indices for Japan and Europe. If anything, real wages in Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the … sense that much of the increase in wage gap indices in Europe during 1968-70 and in Japan in 1973-74 can be interpreted as …
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Over the last millennium, the clan and the city have been the locus of cooperation in China and Europe respectively …
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period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital …
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This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …
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This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …
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Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a … “short equity, long debt.” Third, China and India have improved their net external positions over the last decade although …. Changes in these factors will affect the international financial integration of China and India (through shifts in capital …
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This paper studies the role of wage and pension pressures in explaining the budget deficit crisis of 1991–2 after the remarkable 1990 Polish economic stabilization and liberalization. It also explains the persistence of the high tax wedge that later helped overcome the budget crisis. The...
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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
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1871. As British living standards increased from the mid-seventeenth century, India fell increasingly behind. Whereas in … relatively prosperous India at the height of the Mughal Empire, with living standards well above bare bones subsistence. …
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