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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the …
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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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The expansion in the supply of energy services over the last couple of centuries has reduced the apparent importance of energy in economic growth despite energy being an essential production input. We demonstrate this by developing a simple extension of the Solow growth model, which we use to...
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post-Kyoto climate policy regime. China and India¹s commitments are framed as reductions in the emissions intensity of the … intensity for China and India, and how do they compare with the targeted reductions in the US and the EU? In this paper, we use … residual technology variable. We use the model to produce emissions projections for China and India under a number of scenarios …
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This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model trends in energy efficiency over time in a panel of 85 countries. No a priori structure is imposed on technological change over time though differences in the level of technology across countries are modeled as a stochastic function of...
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. China has multiple objectives to develop a low carbon economy and to decrease carbon dioxide emission per unit of GDP … protection, poverty alleviation, employment and natural conservation). In this regard, China's actions are more at the active … side than from a pressure outside. However, there are some suspicions in the international society about whether China has …
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … in China, provides some analysis of these energy price reforms, and suggests few areas of reforms could take place in …
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Sectoral Market Mechanism (SMM) in China. Based on a detailed overview of domestic policy instruments under SMM, this paper … econometric analysis. The data were collected from 113 respondents in all 11 prefecture-level cities of Shanxi province, China …
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This paper has the objective of showing that identity based voting will lead to improvements in household welfare through increased access to welfare programs. Using newly available data from rural India, we establish that identity based voting will lead to enhanced participation in welfare...
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decentralization programs. This paper examines regional dynamics and decentralization with reference to the Philippines, a country well … decentralization program relatively early (1991), and it is one of the most spatially diverse countries in the world. The reforms …
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