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Chinas Belt and Road Initiative wandelt sich
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, financial and geopolitical problems were weighing on the “New Silk Road”: China’s overall investment has been...
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Chinas Greater Bay Area
Economic cooperation among mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao has deepened quickly since 2019. A roadmap for China’s southeastern province Guangdong...
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Regional and ethnic inequalities in Malaysian poverty dynamics
This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally-representative micro-level data to track poverty and income mobility in Malaysia in...
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Prices
Two distinct types of price data are presented in this chapter: (1) consumer and producer price indices and (2) direct observations on the prices of...
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Educational choice, rural–urban migration and economic development
We develop an overlap**-generations framework of education-based migration that takes place prior to labor-market participation and explore its...
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Decomposition analysis of earnings inequality in rural India: 2004–2012
We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings increased at all percentiles,...
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Left-behind children and return migration in China
This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple illustrative model that incorporates...
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China Confronts the Great Recession: ‘Rebalancing’ Neoliberalism, or Else?
This paper posits that China’s economic transformation since the turn of the century has tended to converge to what can be called the Golden Age...
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Arab Countries in Transition in the Aftermath of the Great Recession: The Policy Options
There are a number of significant ‘challenges’ currently facing Arab Countries in Transition (ACT). This paper, following a brief examination of the...
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Intangible Investment and Changing Sources of Growth in Korea
We examine how intangible investments change the sources of growth in the Korean economy. After constructing a novel industry-level data set on...
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Making sense of Arab labor markets: the enduring legacy of dualism
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high youth unemployment,...
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Informality and exclusion: evidence from matched employer-employee data for Lebanon and Syria
AbstractInformality, measured as the share of the employed who do not have access to social security, is high in Lebanon and the Syrian Arab...
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Equality of opportunity in educational achievement in the Middle East and North Africa
This paper is an empirical investigation of inequality of education opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We use student scores...
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Technical Efficiency and Governance: The Case of China
Inefficient resource use by its enterprises may challenge the sustainability of Chinas intense and prolonged growth. Relying on a properly...
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Japan and economic integration in East Asia: post-disaster scenario
As regional integration proceeds in East Asia, intermediate goods production of advanced technology has been locked in Japan despite the dispersion...
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Regional convergence or divergence in China? Evidence from unit root tests with breaks
The validity of regional economic clubs requires that two conditions be met. First, per capita output between clubs diverges so that the poor region...
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Guanxi: Personal connections in Chinese society
Guanxi is known to be an important feature of Chinese society, and while studies of the subject are voluminous, the present study attempts to explore...
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Micro-Finance and Rural Enterprises: An Analysis of Operational Performance and Constraints in the SHG-Bank Linkage Program in India
This paper investigates the interrelationship within community’s business environment and the operational characteristics of community-owned economic...