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Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development : Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers

Bloom, David E. - 2020

contrast, infrastructure proxies are not significantly associated with subsequent growth in any of the models estimated …

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Inequality and Growth in Rural China : Does Higher Inequality Impede Growth?

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - 2021

We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...

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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E. - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

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Cross-Country Connectedness in Inflation and Unemployment : Measurement and Macroeconomic Consequences

Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2021

We bring the notion of connectedness (Diebold and Yilmaz, 2012) to a set of two critical macroeconomic variables as inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro setting– to explore the extent and consequences of...

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Institutions and Economic Performance : What Can Be Explained?

Commander, Simon John - 2010

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007.We...

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Changes in Open Defecation in Rural North India : 2014-2018

Gupta, Aashish - 2019

Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through … India. Here, we report results from a late 2018 survey that revisited households from the 2014 survey in four states: Bihar …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2021

capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion of new technology and its regional spread; and market reforms, with a major … infrastructure capital on regional inequality. We conclude that investing in human capital will be an effective policy to reduce …

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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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Expressway to Power : Infrastructure Projects and Political Support

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Okoye, Dozie; Turan, Belgi - 2021

This paper provides causal evidence on how political parties consolidate power in an electoral democracy. We collect administrative data on expressway construction by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey, and use province-by-year variation in expressway construction to show that...

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