The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective
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- Bart Van Ark & Abdul Azeez Erumban & Vivian Chen & Utsav Kumar, 2008. "The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India - An Industry and Regional Perspective," Macroeconomics Working Papers 22268, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research.
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Keywords
cost competitiveness; manufacturing; India; China; labor productivity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2010-10-02 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-CWA-2010-10-02 (Central and Western Asia)
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