pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … China are not only important sources of inexpensive medicines but also have an indirect effect by lowering prices through …

Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …

Following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of China increased relative … to that of India, and, simultaneously, FDI inflows relative to GDP for China versus India declined. These observations … inherited from the previous generation. The resulting increase in China's (domestic K)/L thus ‘crowds out' the need for FDI in …

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …