The evolution of institutions in India and its relationship with economic growth

This paper examines the evolution in a few public institutionsover time in India. It presents three types of evidence: oninstitutional outcomes (such as losses in power generation,backlogs in disposal of court cases); on perceptions-based measuresof governance, some going back to the 1960s; and, finally, oncustoms administration and whether it has been more effectiveat detecting evasion over time. All the evidence suggests thatinstitutional quality has not improved over time. It then addressesthe two-way relationship between growth and institutions interms of two apparent paradoxes. The first is why growth hasturned around so dramatically in India despite the relativelylimited nature of reforms, especially compared with other countries.The second paradox is why, despite nearly 30 years of rapidgrowth, institutions have not improved. The paper offers someexplanations that might help explain these paradoxes.     

Stock market development and economic growth in Belgium

This paper investigates the long-term relationship between financial market development and economic development in Belgium. We use a new data set of stock market development indicators to argue that financial market development substantially affected economic growth. We find strong evidence that stock market development caused economic growth in Belgium, especially in the period between 1873 and 1935. Institutional changes affecting the stock exchange explain the time-varying nature of the link between stock market development and economic growth.     

印度农产品市场准入:分析及借鉴

印度在利用《农业协定》规则特别是农产品市场准入来规避风险方面,有着丰富的经验。本文着重从印度农产品市场准入的承诺、实际执行情况以及政策效果评价等角度进行分析,以期为我国在WTO新一轮多边贸易谈判中吸取教训,并提供可以借鉴的经验。     

Manufacturing productivity in China and India: The role of institutional changes

In this paper we undertake a comparative study of productivity in the manufacturing sector for China and India using data from survey of manufacturing industries for the two countries. We find that productivity of manufacturing industries in China relative to that in India improved substantially over the 1998–2003 period. Specifically, the average total factor productivity (TFP) growth for the manufacturing sector over this period was about 11% higher in China than in India. We document two substantial changes in government policies in China that were not witnessed in India. First, the late 1990s saw an enormous wave of ownership restructuring due to the formal endorsement of private property rights by the Chinese central government. Second, in 1997 a large scale labour retrenchment program was launched to address the long standing problem of labour redundancy in the public sector. Using data from the Chinese survey of manufacturing industries, we quantify the impact of these large scale institutional changes on TFP of Chinese manufacturing industries. We find that these policy changes can explain about 30% of the growth in TFP of manufacturing industries. Hence we conclude that these institutional changes in China can account for a significant part of the gains in productivity of manufacturing industries in China relative to that in India over the 1998–2003 period.     

India's development in the era of growth

The recent growth pattern of India is set in the context ofthe parallel experience of China, the experience of povertyreduction is reviewed, and a number of papers illuminating India'sdevelopment are introduced.     

The progress of school education in India

This paper provides an overview of school education in India.First, it places India's educational achievements in internationalperspective, particularly against countries with which it isnow increasingly compared, especially China. Second, the paperexamines schooling access in terms of enrolment and school attendancerates, and schooling quality in terms of literacy rates, learningachievement levels, school resources, and teacher inputs. Third,the paper investigates the role of private schooling in India,examining the extent of growth of private schooling and surveyingevidence on the relative effectiveness and unit costs of privateand public schools. Last, the paper discusses some major publiceducation initiatives. The concluding section suggests a futureresearch agenda and appeals for rigorous evaluation of the impactsand costs of the numerous existing educational interventions,in order to learn about their relative cost-effectiveness forevidence-based policy-making.     

The equipment hypothesis and US economic growth

In several articles published in the 1990s, de Long and Summers argued that investment in producer durables had a high propensity to generate externalities in using industries, resulting in a systematic and substantial divergence between its social and private return. They maintained, moreover, that this was not the case for structures investment. Together, these claims constitute the equipment hypothesis. This paper explores the degree to which the history of US economic growth in the 20th century supports it.     

Textile trade and the pattern of economic growth

Zusammenfassung Handel mit Textilien und wirtschaftliches Wachstum. — Dieser Aufsatz untersucht den Handel mit Textilien und Bekleidung sowie die Produktionsfaktoren, die mit der Wettbewerbsf?higkeit der Exporteure verbunden sind, und die Wirkung der allgemeinen Wettbewerbsf?higkeit auf den Entwicklungsproze\. Die Ausweitung der Textil- und Bekleidungsproduktion scheint im Entwicklungsproze\ sehr wichtig zu sein. Denn die Ausfuhr von Textilien und Bekleidung der gro\en Exportl?nder ist mit einem schnellen allgemeinen Exportwachstum sowie mit dem Zugang zu internationalem Kapital und mit schnellem Wachstum des Pro-Kopf-Einkommens verknüpft. Diejenigen L?nder, die bei der raschen Ausdehnung ihres Anteils auf den Weltm?rkten für Textilien und Bekleidung am erfolgreichsten gewesen sind, haben gleichzeitig mit Erfolg die Lohnstückkosten durch einen effizienten Kapitalcinsatz niedrig zu halten gewu\t. In diesen L?ndern sind die Ertr?ge für die Produktionsfaktoren au\er für den Faktor Arbeit sehr hoch. Insgesamt scheinen die effiziente Verwendung von Kapital und der hohe Lohn für die unternehmerische T?tigkeit eine Schlüsselstellung in dem dynamischen Entwicklungsproze einzunehmen.

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Résumé Le commerce de textile et la croissance économique. — Cet article examine le commerce de textile et de vêtement ainsi que les facteurs de production qui sont associés avec la compétitivité d’exportations et l’effet de la compétitivité générale sur le procès de développement. L’expansion de la production des textiles et des vêtements semble être un élément-clé dans le procès de développement. Les exportations des textiles et des vêtements par les grands pays exportatrices sont associées avec une rapide croissance des toutes les exportations, avec l’accès au capital international et avec une montée sensible du revenu par habitant. Les pays qui avaient beaucoup de succès d’augmenter rapidement leur rapport sur les marchés mondiaux des textiles et des vêtements sont ceux qui avaient beaucoup de succès de tenir les co?ts unitaires de main-d’oeuvre sur un niveau bas en utilisant le capital très effectivement. Ils sont aussi les pays qui offrent des taux de rendement très hauts aux facteurs exclusivement de la main-d’oeuvre. Comme résumé on peut dire que lútilisation effective de capital et les rémunérations hautes pour l‘activité des entrepreneurs semblent être le part-clé du procès dynamique de croissance.

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Resumen Comercio de textiles y el patrón de crecimiento económico. — En este artículo se examinan los patrones del comercio de textiles y vestuario, factores de producción que están asociados con la competitividad de exportatión y el impacto de la competitividad general sobre el proceso de desarrollo. La expansión de la producción de textiles y vestuario parece ser un elemento clave en el proceso de desarrollo. Las exportaciones de textiles y vestuario de los grandes países exportadores están asociadas con el rápido crecimiento general de las exportaciones, con el acceso a capitales internacionales y con el rápido incremento en el ingreso per cápita. Aquellos países que han mostrado ser los más exitosos en incrementar su participación en los mercados mundiales de textiles y vestuario son aquéllos que han tenido mayor éxito en mantener los costos de trabajo unitarios bajos, usando el capital en la forma más eficiente. Son también los países que ofrecen altas tasas de retorno a los factores no laborales. En suma, la eficiente utilizatión del capital y la alta recompensa al factor empresarial parecen ser elementos claves para un proceso de crecimiento dinámico.

     

印度发展服务业外包的启示

服务业是现代经济增长的源泉之一,也是绿色GDP重要组成部分,印度十分注重发展外包服务业,并使之在转变其经济增长方式中发挥了重要的作用。     

Entrepreneurship capital and economic growth

This paper shows how and why the Solow growth accounting frameworkis useful for linking entrepreneurship capital to economic growth.The knowledge filter impedes the spillover of knowledge forcommercialization, thereby weakening the impact of knowledgeinvestments on economic growth. By serving as a conduit forknowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link betwninvestments in new knowledge and economic growth. Entrepreneurshipis an important mechanism permeating the knowledge filter tofacilitate the spillover of knowledge and ultimately generateeconomic growth. The emergence of entrepreneurship policy topromote economic growth is interpreted as an attempt to promoteentrepreneurship capital, or the capacity of an economy to generatethe start-up and growth of new firms.     

我国居民储蓄与股市联动效应及对策

文章通过对我国股市与居民储蓄相关性的实证剖析,论证了居民储蓄与股市价量的联动效应,解释了影响储蓄与股市联动效应的因素。探讨了合理分流储蓄、推动投资渠道多元化、加强监管、保持政策调控持续性等促进股市稳健发展的对策建议。     

The relationship between human capital and the economic growth in China

Human capital is one of the most important factors to promote economic growth. It is critical both on theory and practice to study how human capital investment and accumulation promote the economic growth in China. The thesis takes Lucas＇s Human Capital Spillover Model as the analysis tool. Through SPSS 14.0 software, it uses the serial data from 1992 to 2006 to analyze the human capital＇s correlation and contribution to the economic growth, so as to find out why the human capital contribution to economic growth is low. And then, in order to increase the human capital accumulation, it puts forward the relative strategies which include paying more attention to the importance of human capital, greatly developing education, improving the quality of human capital and investing more on the human capital of enterprises.     

区域化对经济增长影响的研究

近二十年来,伴随全球化的发展,区域化格局更为突出,二者引发全球生产要素再配置和贸易格局发生重要转变,对全球经济产生深刻影响。本文通过运用高级宏观经济学基本原理,用数据和模型对区域化分析,着重对区域化对生产增长的影响进行了研究。     

财政分权与经济增长

理解财政分权在经济增长过程中所起的作用颇为重要。本文采用1953～2003年的时间序列数据,以地方政府财政支出占全部财政支出的比重作为度量财政分权的指标,用实证研究的办法考察财政分权对于中国经济增长的影响。与已有的一些研究结果不同的是,本文的回归结果显示,对经济增长具有显著影响的并不是财政分权的绝对水平,而是财政分权程度的变动。本文依据这一结果分析了财政分权与经济增长的关系。     

论中国与印度的经济合作

中印两国同为发展中大国,两国加强经济合作具有重要意义。近年来,中印经济合作取得了显著的成就,但仍存在一些问题与不足。中印两国应当继续保持高层互访,加强民间交流,推动贸易多样化,扩大双边贸易额,加强经贸协作的制度化建设,在可持续发展方面开展合作与交流,使双边经济合作进一步深入发展。     

The role of savings in economic development the U.S. and Japanese experiences

This paper explores the relationship between savings and growth in the United States and in Japan within a simple Granger causality framework. For Japan, growth caused savings before World War II while after World War II savings caused growth. For the US, growth caused savings after World War II. These results suggest that the savings-growth relationship may depend upon the stage of development.