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Since the economic reforms began in 1978, China has achieved remarkable economic results. Real GDP per capita grew at an average annual rate of 8.1% in the period of 1978-2001. Maintaining such a high growth rate over such a long period of time with a population of more than one billion truly is...
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Numerous political statements by the world leaders on the urgency of reaching an ambitious climate deal in Copenhagen … notwithstanding, the actual discussions at the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) continue to be shrouded … by daunting North-South divide, dimming the hope of sealing a deal in December 2009. The negotiating climate has been …
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The 21st century, as being said the world over, will belong to Asia. The regional economic cooperation in Asia is developing fast and well with the ASEAN as a center and with the positive participations of major Asian nations such as China, India and Japan. The cooperation has shown that the...
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The progress of the cooperation and economic integration of the region has a big potentiality for further industrial and economic development of the whole Asian region in general. IT industries have big potentiality for the future economic development of each country in the region. IT sectors...
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This paper presents a brief non-technical overview of the conceptual basis of RTAs by highlighting the implications of concepts like trade creation and trade diversion. The paper then moves to pinpointing some of the global trends in RTAs to place the Indian engagements in a perspective. The...
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For the Philippines, quantitative policy analysis should incorporate regional differences in welfare and economic structure, which arise partly from geographic constraints. However, existing CGE models offer limited analysis of regional effects or national impacts of region-specific...
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Until recently, most Japanese considered the gaining momentum of Asian economic integration in the frame of ASEAN+3. With India maintaining a high economic growth rate and its population being predicted to overtake China as the most populous country in Asia is leading many to rethink the...
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Green growth entails several different kinds of processes : conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and … response to climate shocks. Equity implies a fair sharing of the costs, within countries and between countries. The authors set … out to explore some of the ways that equity has been considered in climate change discussions. They discuss per capita …
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emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of … embarked upon an ambitious policy agenda. This report reviews the present and future policy settings for climate change …
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In Thailand climate change has been integrated into the formulation of several national plans and policies. Even …
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