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Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections. These imperfections include information asymmetry, uneven market power between employers...
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Rural poverty in China fell from 96 percent in 1980 to less than 1 percent of the population in 2019. Using PovcalNet … data for China and a set of comparable countries, this paper estimates growth-poverty elasticities. It finds that China … dependency rate also played a significant role. As China's living standards continue to rise, the official definition of poverty …
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Following a strong rebound in the first half of 2021, economic activity cooled rapidly in the latter half of the year. The slowdown was partly policy induced, reflecting significant fiscal tightening and regulatory curbs on the financial and real estate sectors, while recurring COVID-19...
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accumulation in China, exploiting variations in foreign direct investment inflows across manufacturing sub-sectors caused by China …'s foreign direct investment deregulation and initial sectoral composition patterns across China's cities and provinces. Using a …
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Tournament competition is viewed as motivating bureaucrats in promoting growth. This paper examines how this incentive leads to economic performance manipulation. Using data from Chinese cities, the analysis shows that performance exaggeration increases over the course of the first term of the...
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China is a global leader in the use of ecological compensation ("eco-compensation")-fiscal transfers for environmental … and natural resources management. China is one of the most fiscally decentralized countries in the world, with 85 percent … impacts, and distills broad lessons from China for similar policies globally …
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disrupted China's growth normalization. The global environment has also significantly worsened following Russia's invasion of … and external headwinds, China's policymakers should carefully calibrate its policies. In the short term, China should …, inclusive, and sustainable growth trajectory for China …
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In the past, the business registration system in China was complicated and market access was highly restricted and …. People's Republic of China (PRC or China) has been making a great effort to simplify its business registration process …, enhance its efficiency, and reduce its cost. China has reduced both the amount of time and the number of procedures required …
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The purpose of this note is to explain how the pandemic is reshaping regulations in China and affecting urban planning … and city management. In preparing this note, a meta-analysis was conducted based on a review of China's urban planning … provides a systematic review of how China responses to COVID-19 and addresses gaps in urban planning and building design …
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economic development and social transformation. In the past 40 years, China has taken advantage of its strategic geographical … China has become home to more than half of the world's top 50 portraits The rapid development of China's ports was critical … for the country's remarkable economic growth. What China achieved can be informative; how and why China revived and …
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