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Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more has been obtained with relatively little increase in...
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The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...
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agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …
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, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … India. When capital and labor are hypothetically reallocated to equalize marginal products to the extent observed in the U ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India …
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market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank%u2019s desire to hold a …
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to that of India, and, simultaneously, FDI inflows relative to GDP for China versus India declined. These observations … China relative to India. Our paper is a contribution to the nascent literature exploring demographic transitions and their …
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examine this in the context of China and India – two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a … in China and 15 percentage points in India. This impact has fallen over time in both countries as firm concentration in …
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's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …
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substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there … are substantial reasons that China and India may grow much less rapidly than is currently anticipated. Most importantly …
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