This paper proposes an indicator to assess the progress being made in the modernization journey of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it fills a gap. The paper applies the modernization indicator—structured on thematic categories, subcategories, and intersections—to the...

For almost all countries, economic growth is a key national agenda. It is the most powerful instrument for creating jobs and eliminating poverty in developing countries. As Harvard economist Dani Rodrik remarked, nothing has worked better than economic growth historically in enabling societies...

We study Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness of fit tests for evaluating distributional hypotheses where unknown parameters need to be fitted. Following work of Pollard (1979), our approach uses a Cramér-von Mises minimum distance estimator for parameter estimation. The asymptotic null distribution of...