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Economic Growth and Carbon Emission Control -A case study of power industry in China
Zhang, Zhenyu; Schoengold, Karina - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
electricity generation sector in China was chosen to demonstrate the economic impact of possible emissions control on the …. Data comes from the China Statistical Yearbook and China Electric Power Yearbook, providing the provincial information for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012645
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Intangible Capital, Innovation, and Growth in China
Fleisher, Belton; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam; Zhou, Mi - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
indicators in China. We find that investments in IC are productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises—more so in domestically … owned than in foreign invested enterprises. Consistent with other research, we find that China’s IC generates new patents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069024
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The relationship between public education expenditure and economic growth: The case of India
Dastidar, Sayantan Ghosh; Mohan, Sushil; Chatterji, Monojit - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The paper reviews the theoretical and the empirical case for public investment in education in India. Though the theoretical literature provides a backing for such a policy, the empirical literature fails to find a robust relation between education expenditure and growth. Expenditure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878981
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Economic Rise and Decline in Indonesia – As Seen from Space
Olivia, Susan; Gibson, John - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Satellite-detected luminosity is sometimes used to proxy for economic activity although only recently within the mainstream economics literature (Henderson et al., 2012). If this method works it holds great promise for developing countries with weak statistical systems that face difficulties in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880884
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Disentangling the Natural Resources Curse: National and Regional Socioeconomic Impacts of Resource Windfalls
Fleming, David A.; Measham, Thomas G. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Why are some economies likely to grow more slowly when facing natural resource windfalls? What are the causes and consequences of the so-called natural resource curse? These are commonly asked questions in the economics literature, where different studies have address them using different...
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The Impact of China's Demographic Transition on Economic Growth and Income Distribution: CGE Modeling with Top-Down Micro-Simulation
Wang, Xinxin; Chen, Kevin; Huang, Zuhui - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than most industrial economies. This paper quantifies the … down China’s economy growth rate due to the exhausted of demographic dividend with high cost of labor force. The … pension system should be improved, especially in rural China …
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Stock Exchange Development and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Zhang, Yu Yvette; Boadu, Frederick O. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) embraced the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) suggested by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the 1980s. SAPs entail three main transitions: (1) from state control to market-led development; (2) from authoritarianism to...
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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Bruckner, Markus - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916526
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Economic Growth under Globalization: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis
Zhuang, Renan; Koo, Won W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007
economic globalization has a significant positive effect on economic growth for all countries. However, China and India would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005803198
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The distributional effects of NAFTA in Mexico: evidence from a panel of municipalities
Baylis, Katherine R.; Garduno-Rivera, Rafael; Piras, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
This paper studies the regional distribution of the benefits from trade in Mexico after NAFTA. Specifically, we ask whether or not NAFTA has increased the concentration of economic activity in Mexico. Unlike previous work which uses state-level data, we identify the effect of NAFTA on economic...
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