Economic Growth

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The Impact of Coronavirus on China’s SMEs: Findings from the Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China

Rouchen Dai et al.
February 28, 2020
Since the coronavirus outbreak began in January, Chinese business activity has been severely slowed, affecting China’s position in the global industrial supply chain. The Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC) launched a survey on the “condition of micro, small and me...
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Is India’s Consumption Really Falling?

December 09, 2019
What do new figures from the leaked report from India's National Sample Survery (NSS) say about growth?
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Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

October 31, 2019
Canonical models of crime emphasize economic incentive. Yet, causal evidence of sorting into criminal occupations in response to individual-level variation in incentives is limited. We link administrative socioeconomic microdata with the universe of arrests in Medellín over a decade. We explo...
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If India Stopped Growing, Would the IMF and World Bank Say So?

October 29, 2019
Leading economic indicators have slowed or reversed. Criticisms of official statistics are mounting. But the IMF and World Bank continue to forecast 6-percent growth by simple extrapolation.