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In the urban planning literature, it is frequently explicitly asserted or strongly implied that ongoing urban sprawl and decentralization can lead to development patterns that are unsustainable in the long run. One manifestation of such an outcome is that if extensive road investments occur,...
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The study addresses governance challenges in public service delivery in China. It builds on the citizen scorecard … experiments reducing the dependence on user fees in basic education and primary healthcare. It recognizes that China has been …
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China has seen a huge reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that started in the late … China´s growth mattered to poverty reduction using a new provincial panel data set constructed for this purpose. The … unevenness, that handicapped poverty reduction. Yes, China has had great success in reducing poverty through economic growth, but …
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Continuing rapid growth of China and India can be expected to raise incomes in Russia, but also to put adjustment … pressure on Russian firms. The impacts of the rapid growth of China and India on the Russian economy are explored by examining …-than-expected growth in China and India. The authors find that a major source of benefits to Russia is likely to be terms …
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Brazil, China and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different … reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth … inequality, China might learn from Brazil's success with such policies. India needs to do more to assure that poor people are …
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This paper tests a neo-Schumpeterian model with industry-level data to analyze how Brazil, India, and China are … discourage innovating. It suggests that for effective catching up, distance-shortening (or innovation-enhancing) policies may be … a necessary complement to liberalization. South Korea and China combined a variety of distance-shortening policies with …
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First Japan and more recently China have pursued export-oriented growth strategies. While other Asian countries have … done likewise, Japan and China are of particular interest because their economies are so large and the size of the …
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The transformation of work during China’s rapid economic development is associated with a substantial but little …
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Management of international monetary relations between China and the United States will be one of the crucial …-United Kingdom international clearing union, the paper explores the creation of a bilateral United States-China settlement facility …
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Rapid economic growth in China has boosted its demand for commodities. At the same time, many commodity sectors have …
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