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    China and India in international trade: from laggards to leaders?

    French Research Center in International Economics, Centre D'Etudes Prospectives et D'Informations Internationales, 2007
    The economic rise of China and India has generated a great interest in terms of the consequences for the world economy. Among large emerging economies, China and India are the largest in terms of population, the poorest and the fastest growing ones. Given these characteristics, their emergence will have an impact on the world economy.
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    New thinking is needed to unlock Africa’s development traps

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Africa has stagnated for 40 years and now needs a ‘big push’ to escape from four mutually-reinforcing development ‘traps’ –  conflict, corruption, dependence on primary commodities and fractionalised societies. Aid alone cannot turn things round. Africa’s development prospects depends on security, good governance and trade preferences.
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    Enterprises needed to stimulate growth and reduce poverty in Zambia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Zambia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Private sector development is seen as increasingly necessary to stimulate economic growth, reduce poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. But Zambia, along with many of its African neighbours, lacks growth-oriented companies.
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    Challenges to India’s ‘rise to power’

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    India’s elevated position in the global community is underpinned by a booming economy, nuclear weapons status and veto power in several international institutions. But this rise to power is neither as sudden nor as secure as it appears. India has huge domestic challenges to overcome before it can be considered a global power.
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    The rise of China and sustained recovery of Japan

    Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 2008
    This paper examines the role of Japanese exports to China in the economic recovery period during the 2000s. It take a close look at the impacts on industry-level production, the impacts on aggregate manufacturing production, and the impacts on small firms’ production and tertiary industry activity.
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    International integration and regional development in China

    United Nations University, 2008
    Looking at international integration and regional development in China, this paper introduces a stylised model of regional development characterised by two pillars: (i) International integration indicated by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and (ii) domestic factors indicated by human and real capital available through interregional factor mobility.
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    Development path of China and India and the challenges for their sustainable growth

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    This paper looks at the challenges for India and China in light of their recent development paths. It examines their special characteristics during their fast growth episodes, in particular how the engines of growth came into being and propelled fast GDP growth.
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    China’s economic growth: trajectories and evolving institutions

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    This paper investigates the institutional reason underlying the change in the trajectory of economic growth in post-reform China. It looks at explanations for the change in trajectory of growth in the post-1989 era and also discusses the roles of fiscal autonomy, regional competition and spending bias.
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    The global impact of Chinese growth

    Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, 2008
    In the wake of China’s opening up to the global economy, this paper discusses the effects of China’s developments in this respect on the welfare of both China and the rest of the world (ROW). It uses a standard two-country neoclassical model to quantitatively assess the global effects of the shocks to China.
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    Global political-economic and geopolitical processes, structures and trends

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2008
    This paper assesses major shifts in the global political economy and geopolitics since the 1970s which have brought together processes of governance and liberalisation in often uncomfortable ways.

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