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Land rental markets in the process of rural structural transformation : productivity and equity impacts in China

Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

The importance of land rental for overall economic development has long been recognized in theory, yet empirical evidence on the productivity and equity impacts of such markets and the extent to which they realize their potential has been scant. Representative data from China's nine most...

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The better you are the stronger it makes you : evidence on the asymmetric impact of liberalization

Iacovone, Leonardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

This paper studies how liberalization affects productivity growth using micro-level plant data. While previous studies have already shown the existence of a positive relationship between competition and economic performance, the novelty of this paper is that it analyzes not only the average...

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Endowment structures, industrial dynamics, and economic growth

Ju, Jiandong; Lin, Justin Yifu; Wang, Yong - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

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The extent of the market and stages of agricultural specialization

Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper provides empirical evidence of nonlinearity in the relationship between crop specialization in a village economy and the extent of the market (size of the urban market) relevant for the village. The results suggest that the portfolio of crops in a village economy becomes more...

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Privatization and nationalization cycles

Chang, Roberto; Hevia, Constantino; Loayza, Norman - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies as a prime instance of unstable institutional reform. The authors discuss the available evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, review the existing literature, and...

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Infrastructure and growth in developing countries : recent advances and research challenges

Straub, Stephane - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

This paper presents a survey of recent research on the economics of infrastructure in developing countries. Energy, transport, telecommunications, water and sanitation are considered. The survey covers two main set of issues: the linkages between infrastructure and economic growth (at the...

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Human capital, trade liberalization, and income risk

Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2007

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … between 1987 and 1998, a period in which the Mexican economy experienced substantial changes in trade policy. In a second step …, they use the variations in trade policy across different sectors and over time to estimate the link between trade policy …

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Emerging market fluctuations : what makes the difference ?

Hevia, Constantino - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

Aggregate fluctuations in emerging countries are quantitatively larger and qualitatively different in key respects from those in developed countries. Using data from Mexico and Canada, this paper decomposes these differences in terms of shocks to aggregate efficiency and shocks that distort the...

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Rising growth, declining investment : the puzzle of the Philippines

Magnoli Bocchi, Alessandro - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

The economy of the Philippines is open to trade and capital inflows, and has grown rapidly since 2002. Over the last 10 …

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The investment climate in post-conflict situations

Mills, Rob; Fan, Qimiao - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

This paper is a policy review of the role of investment climate in post-conflict situations. It summarizes the broad range of ways in which conflict negatively affects the investment climate, from macroeconomic instability to a degraded regulatory framework. It stresses that attention needs to...

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