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How responsive is poverty to growth? A regional analysis of poverty, inequality, and growth in Indonesia, 1984 - 99
Friedman, Jed - 2003
This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop successive poverty profiles for Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a ‘cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to poverty determination (an approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279162
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Spatial Convergence of Regions Revisited: A Spatial Maximum Likelihood Systems Approach
Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2009
This paper suggests that one should account for the endogeneity of important explanatory variables and the persistence of technology shocks when analyzing spatial convergence among regions.Specifically, it is argued that a systems approach is called for that includes the average growth rate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294831
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Industrial location and spatial inequality: Theory and evidence from India
Lall, Somik V.; Chakravorty, Sanjoy - 2004
We argue that spatial inequality of industry location is a primary cause of spatial income inequality in developing nations. We focus on understanding the process of spatial industrial variation—identifying the spatial factors that have cost implications for firms, and the factors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284591
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Dynamics of Chinese Comparative Advantage
Hinloopen, Jeroen; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2004
We analyze the dynamics of Chinese comparative advantage as measured by export shares and the Balassa index using 3-digit and 4-digit sectors for the period 1970 – 1997. We use novel tools to identify periods of rapid structural change and the persistence of comparative advantage, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325454
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A spatial interpretation of the persistency of China's provincial inequality
Yu, Xiaofan - 2011
China's rapid economic growth in recent decades has not led to balanced income distribution: inter- and intra … development, this paper investigates the nexus between the spatial dependence and income inequality in China on a prefectural … also the choropleth maps of clusters in China, this paper reaches the conclusion that clusters of prefectures and provinces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368511
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Channels of interprovincial consumption risk sharing in the People's Republic of China
Du, Julan; He, Qing; Rui, Oliver M. - 2011
This paper analyzes consumption risk sharing among provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during 1980 - 2007 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397214
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Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China
Wilson, Ross - 2015
governance and economic growth at the provincial level in China during the reform era. I find a significant and positive effect … not been a key factor in China's rapid growth, and support the proposition that governance reforms are often a consequence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208723
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The role of proximity to universities for corporate patenting: Provincial evidence from China
Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2012
corporate patenting activities in China as found in the previous literature for Western economies. In China, however, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288218
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Optimizing sustainable high-quality economic development through Green Finance with robust spatial estimation
Sohail, Hafiz M.; Haddad, Hossam; Ullah, Mirzat; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 12 (2024) 1, pp. 1-14
regions of China. Notably, a significant association between GF and HED is observed in the western region, highlighting the … examines the role of Green Finance (GF) in promoting High-quality Economic Development (HED) across 31 provinces of China from … beyond individual provinces. Regional analysis reveals a significant GF-HED relationship, particularly in western China …
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Spatio-temporal dynamics in Swiss regional unemployment
Schenker, Rolf; Straub, Martin - 2011
It is generally accepted that regional labor markets are characterized by strong interdependencies. However, only few studies include spatial elements to their estimations. Using the model framework proposed by Cliff and Ord (1973, 1981) and the estimation technique proposed by Kelejian and...
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