â  â â â â â  â  â  abstract: â  there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy or the share of the largest city in an urban system. in accordance to urban economic theories, there is an inverse-u shape relationship between urban concentration –urban primacy- and economic growth. that is, as economy grows, urban concen...

This paper is part of a collaborative research project entitled The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Asian Economic Development (1960-95) which was sponsored by the Asian Development Bank. The study included six Asian economies: People's Republic of China (PRC), India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan,China. Oxford University Press is publishing the comparative report. This es...

10 Article history: 11 Received 29 June 2009 12 Received in revised form 24 May 2010 13 Accepted 25 May 2010 14 Available online xxxx 5 We decompose labor productivity growth from 1987 to 2005 by examining six partial factors 16 (both supply and demand): changes in value-added coefficients, labor inputs, shares of sectoral 17 demands that are fulfilled domestically, input mix, and the intra-sec...

We construct a growth model consistent with China’s economic transition: high output growth, sustained returns on capital, reallocation within the manufacturing sector, and a large trade surplus. Entrepreneurial firms use more productive technologies, but due to financial imperfections they must finance investments through internal savings. State-owned firms have low productivity but survive be...

This study develops a multi-region computable general equilibrium model (CGE model) with considering limited factor movement on the regional economy of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in China. In broadly, YRD is composed of Shanghai City, Jiangsu province, and Zhejiang province. It has been achieved remarkable economic growth in the recent three decades. It was identified as a national-level regiona...

Since the mechanism of virulence of Escherichia coli strains pathogenic to birds is not fully understood, the prevalence of toxic factors produced by E. coli strains pathogenic to other animals was investigated. A total of 625 E. coli strains isolated from visceral organs of chickens with colisepticemia and from feces of healthy chickens in Spain were tested for production of enterotoxins (heat...