This study examined the effect of local officials' political capital on poverty alleviation by using a manually compiled database of county party secretaries (CPSs) in impoverished counties in China. The empirical results reveal that CPSs with political capital positively affect poverty...

This paper empirically examines the effects of three indexes for the product diversification of exports (the Theil index, the extensive margin, and the intensive margin) on the real GDP per capita in 158 countries by considering subgroups related to income levels, i.e., in the low-, the lower...