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Elementary education in India versus China: Guidelines for NEP implementationThis paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from China’s shift in focus from ‘quantity’ to ‘quality’, and evidence-based guidelines for effective imple...
Education Schooling Education qualityWorking Paper
Taxless fiscal states: Lessons from 19th-century America and 21st-century ChinaHow do modern fiscal states arise?...
Public finance Fiscal capacity LandBook Chapter
Social mobility in China: A case study of social mobility research in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Gender Log-linear modelsWorking Paper
The changing nature of work and earnings inequality in ChinaThis paper examines the evolution of China’s industrial and occupational structure in the last two decades and its impact on wage inequality...
Occupations Wage inequality EducationBook Chapter
China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobilityFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Intergenerational Mobility Equality of opportunity EducationWorking Paper
Size matters: measuring the effects of inequality and growth shocksUnderstanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and social scientists...
Inequality Growth Bayesian estimationWorking Paper
Transforming informal work and livelihoods in ChinaThe informal sector has long been viewed as a locus of the disadvantaged, unskilled, and inexperienced workers in under-developed and developing economies...
China Informal sector LivelihoodsWorking Paper
Investigating the fiscal resource curse: What’s China got to do with it?The term fiscal resource curse refers to countries’ inability to raise taxes from a broad base in the presence of natural resources...
China Infrastructure Natural resourcesWorking Paper
Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in ChinaIn this paper, we analyse the relationship between China’s structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth...
Inequality Education MigrationWorking Paper
Social mobility in China: A case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global SouthThis study analyses intergenerational class mobility in China as a case study of a quantitative sociological approach to social mobility research in the Global South...
Social mobility Gender Log-linear modelsJournal Article
The Intergenerational Impact of China's New Rural Pension SchemePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
China Intergenerational Mobility PensionsWorking Paper
China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobilityThe United States and China are the world’s largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world’s economic output...
Intergenerational Mobility Equality of opportunity EducationSeminar
WeiWei Chen on the political economy of Chinese private investment in EthiopiaWeiWei Chen will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 20 November 2019. Abstract - The political economy of Chinese private investment in Ethiopia: a case study of Eastern Industry Park Conventional wisdom sees a large role for Chinese state-owned...
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South‐South Irregular Migration: The Impacts of China's Informal Gold Rush in GhanaPart of Journal Special Issue Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South
Ghana China Gold rushWorking Paper
Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policyIn this paper we describe the major trends in China’s income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the outcome of four interleaved stories...
China Inequality Development EconomicsWorking Paper
South-South labour migration and the impact of the informal China-Ghana gold rush 2008–13This paper examines irregular South-South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it has played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes...
Ghana China Gold rush