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The extent to which social protection programs in general and targeted programs in particular actually alleviate poverty has been a central issue in development debates for decades. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate by empirically examining the poverty-alleviation...
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Imperial China used an empire-wide system of examinations to select civil servants. Using a semiparametric matching-based difference-in-differences estimator, we show that the persecution of scholar-officials led to a decline in the number of examinees at the provincial and prefectural level. To...
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The formidable economic growth of China in the past few decades led to outstanding improvements in virtually all objective indicators of standards of life. However, these objective records are in striking contrast with subjective ones. Between 1990 and 2007, Chinese average subjective well-being...
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Although financial development may facilitate economic growth over the long term, financial underdevelopment remains a salient feature of even leading emerging or transition economies. In principle, openness to both international trade and finance may weaken resistance to major financial...
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The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive socio-cultural traits, or whether...
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The rapid and massive increase in rural-to-urban worker flows to the coast of China has drawn recent attention to the welfare of migrants working in urban regions, particularly to their working conditions and pay; serious concern is raised regarding pay discrimination against rural migrants....
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As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depend crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...
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giant fast-growing countries, China and India, with the liberalised global economy. The integration is taking place under … of the global labour force with India and China’s recent integration with the international economy may have profoundly … its technological leadership. In relation to policy, the underlying question examined here is whether India and China …
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of India, the picture is so complex. The Competitiveness of manufacturing sector and Financial Openness are showing the … fluctuating path over the year. No as such trend can be found for these two series for India. Only the Trade Openness is showing … increasing trend for India. …
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India and China are without doubt two superpowers in becoming, as they jointly own 40% of the world’s population and … present in the following some recent economic earmarks of India’s, respectively China’s development, as well as, in conclusion …
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