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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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Burundi, a small fragile economy, went through sporadic civil war since its independence in 1962 during which rampant insecurity had adverse impact on the country’s social and economic development. While Burundi is agriculturally rich, high rate of growth of rural population places...
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So far no existing study has analyzed what determines people’s trust in the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO even though – in the absence of democratic accountability – this is one of the few ways to assess the legitimacy of these institutions. This study is intended to fill this gap in...
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Russia, China, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. …
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In this study, we examine the wealth effects of regulatory changes intended to improve corporate governance by protecting minority shareholders from expropriation by controlling shareholders. Using data from publicly traded Chinese firms, we find that these new regulations significantly...
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domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de facto research centers in China and investigate whether the effect of R …
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We evaluate whether the presence of China in world trade is ultimately beneficial or whether it is a threat to Brazil … result of its commerce with China. …
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China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources …, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following … power parity rates (GNI-PPP) of China and Brazil were at approximately the same level, but by the mid 2000s the GNI-PPP of …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology … differences across three major regions in China, we use a novel semiparametric approach that allows us to model heterogeneities …
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China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial … impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but …
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