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Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay A Comparative Assessment of the Rise of China and India
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The authors explored deeper social and historical issues that underlie their differential ability to resolve collective action problems in long-term investment and to manage political conflicts, which go beyond the usual simple simple aggregative comparisons of an authoritarian and a democratic political regime.Abstract:
Both China and India have made remarkable economic progress in the last quarter century—China more than India—but both have severe structural and institutional problems that will hobble them for many years to come. In this article, after a comparative study of the two economies in terms of broad development indicators, we explore some deeper social and historical issues that underlie their differential ability to resolve collective action problems in long-term investment and to manage political conflicts, which go beyond the usual simple aggregative comparisons of an authoritarian and a democratic political regime.read more
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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Term limits and rotation of Chinese governors: do they matter to economic growth?
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Public policy and financial resource mobilization for wind energy in developing countries: A comparison of approaches and outcomes in China and India
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Stuck in Place: Investigating Social Mobility in 14 Bangalore Slums
TL;DR: In this article, a study of 14 Bangalore slum communities, including detailed interviews with 1,481 residents, represents an initial effort to study social mobility in India's largest cities, where opportunity a...
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Changing Social Relations between Science and Society: Contemporary Challenges:
TL;DR: In the second decade of the 21st century, the social institution of science is undergoing a major change as discussed by the authors, and three societal forces are responsible for the change: globalization, industrial and post-industrial society, and climate change.
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
TL;DR: Friedman and Friedman went to the same high school and used the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention as inspiration for his column "The GoldenArches theory of conflict prevention" as discussed by the authors.
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
TL;DR: The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Thomas Friedman is a widely-acclaimed journalist, foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, and author of four best-selling books that include From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989) as mentioned in this paper.
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China's (uneven) progress against poverty
Martin Ravallion,Shaohua Chen +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic growth, and that rural areas accounted for the bulk of the gains to the poor, though migration to urban areas helped.
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Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives: Federalism, Chinese style
TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between provincial government's fiscal incentives and provincial market development and found that stronger ex ante fiscal incentives, measured by the contractual marginal retention rate of the provincial government in its budgetary revenue, are associated with faster development of the non-state sector as well as more reforms in the state sector in the provincial economy.
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Federalism and the Soft Budget Constraint
TL;DR: In this article, two effects of federalism are derived: First, fiscal competition among local governments under factor mobility increases the opportunity costs of bailout and thus serves as a commitment device, and monetary centralization, together with fiscal decentralization, induces a conflict of interests and thus may harden budget constraints and reduce inflation.