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highlighted by most empirical studies on China, the question of whether an inverse relationship may exist is seldom, if ever … foreign investment in regional economic growth in China. It also serves to underline the importance of the potential for …
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This paper examines the effects of land tenure insecurity originating from land reforms on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonia. A non cooperative game model is developed where natural forests are considered as an open access resource and the strategic interactions between landowners and...
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This paper establishes a link between deforestation and credit cycles in Latin American countries. The latter exhibit rapid deforestation rates as well as macroeconomic instability that is often rooted in credit booms and crunches episodes: data available on the last years show a coincidence...
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The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 159 countries over 17 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4’998 product lines) we look for action at the “intensive” and “extensive” margins...
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Alternative approaches to estimating the effects of non-tariff measures (NTMs) on trade flows are discussed and evaluated critically. Recent econometric studies point to three results: (i) NTM restrictiveness measures based on an aggregate of ‘core’ NTMs are more restrictive than existing...
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in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the …
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. Finally, our estimates suggest that the external effect of China’s renminbi, which has been the focus of the profession thus … far, might be “the tip of the iceberg”: the latter two results carry over when China’s trade data are excluded from the …
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specifications, we present a much clearer picture of FDI dispersion and spatial convergence across China by highlighting the …
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The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this … different dimensions considered. My results show that there has been a significant increase in inequality in China between 1997 …
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China within the cross-country relations of (absolute and conditional) convergence and its move since the transition period …. Then it evidences a cross-province relation of convergence within China, stronger if this is conditional than absolute …
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