The decades-long history of friendly relationship in both countries bore the fruits in the form of Pakistan-China free-trade agreement (PCFTA) in 2006. This paper aims to estimate Pakistan's bilateral trade potential with China by employing gravity model of trade in a panel data set covering the...

The decades-long history of friendly relationship in both countries bore the fruits in the form of Pakistan-China free-trade agreement (PCFTA) in 2006. This paper aims to estimate Pakistan's bilateral trade potential with China by employing gravity model of trade in a panel data set covering the...

From the perspective of intra-product specialization and with in-depth analysis of trade statistics, this paper investigates the influence of China’s rise on the East Asian production network. Our conclusions suggest that in integrating into the East Asian production network, China has...

The decades-long history of friendly relationships in both countries bore the fruits in the form of the Pakistan–China free-trade agreement (PCFTA) in 2006. This paper aims to estimate Pakistan’s bilateral trade potential with China by employing the gravity model of trade in a panel data set...

Department: Biostatistics.

Northwest China is one of the most arid regions in the world and has experienced intriguing climate warming and humidification. Nonetheless, future climate conditions in Northwest China still remain uncertain. In this study, we applied an ensemble of the 12 latest model simulations of the...

The warming climate has rapidly altered vegetation growth in drylands, and consequently, has put great pressure on sustainable livelihoods. Various datasets have been applied from local to global scale to study vegetation dynamics and there is a lack of solid comparison among multiple datasets....

The market economy has brought tremendous wealth and equally significant income inequality to China. This article attempts to analyse the role that different types of income play in fostering inequality or the extent to which the tax system, with a notionally progressive personal income tax, may...