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It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with sub-Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural changes...
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– Evidence from the Han and ethnic minorities in China
This study investigates the unexpected impact that enforcing birth control policies in China has upon the educational stratification between the Han majority, the policy target group, and ethnic minorities, a partially excluded group. Exploring county-level variation in the value of fines levied for...
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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– Data collection and the impact on income inequality
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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– A comparative approach with India
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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– 1988-2013
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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Income inequalities and redistribution in China
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Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
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– The Impacts of China's Informal Gold Rush in Ghana
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Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination, women in the...
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– a potential indicator of health-care quality in China
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Measuring quality of care
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Land and Property Rights
– New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms
Over the last two centuries, the experiences of the first wave of industrialized countries in Europe and the US, and the more recent experiences of the East Asian Tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, China, India, and Vietnam, have illustrated the transformative nature of industrialization. There...
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– A Comparative Perspective to the Asian Giants
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Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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– Brazil and the CIBS in a Comparative Perspective
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Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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– China and India
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Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
– Impacts, Prospects and Implications
The rise of China and India is rapidly reshaping the world economy, with far-reaching implication for every national and regional government, business community, and individual citizen. Arising from the UNU-WIDER research project 'Southern Engines of Global growth', this volume explores the...
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– A Disaggregated Analysis
The paper analyses export productivity and trade specialisation in China, Brazil, India and South Africa. The investigation calculates a time-varying export productivity measure using highly disaggregated product categories. The modelling shows that export productivity is determined by real income...
China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy. These Southern Engines countries have experienced a dramatic transformation in their productive and trade capabilities, consequently turning into global super powers. The current age of globalization, in which the Southern...
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– Extent and determinants
We use data on 3,948 Chinese firms obtained from the World Bank’s Investment Climate Private Enterprise Survey to investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international entrepreneurship in China is significant: 62% of the exporting...
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FDI, Employment, and Growth in China and India
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FDI, Employment, and Growth in China and India
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Vulnerability in Development
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– Why Food Subsidies May Matter
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Health and Development
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The Rise of China and India
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– A Non-parametric Approach
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The Rise of China and India
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The Rise of China and India
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