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the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) in this indeterminacy. Mobilising the analytical tools of …
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In this exploraly study, we try to find solutions and reply at the difficulties of expatriate in China, in India and in …
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This paper studies the convergence, and the role of internal real exchange rate on economic growth in the Chinese provincial level. Using informal growth equation à la Barro [1991] and dynamic panel data estimation, we find conditional convergence among the coastal provinces and among inland...
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country (China) over the period 1997-2009. We confirm Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007)'s prediction that regions that … contributors to the global upgrading of China's exports. This finding suggests that the contribution of assembly trade and foreign …
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Common sense supports prevention policies aimed at improving survival prospects among the population. It is also widely acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the...
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An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has remained so far largely unexplored, probably because it appears infeasible. Indeed, short-lived agents can hardly be identified ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue...
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This study estimates the human cost of failures in the CCS industry in 2050, using the actuarial approach. The range of expected fatalities is assessed integrating all steps of the CCS chain: additional coal production, coal transportation, carbon capture, transport, injection and storage, based...
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discussed in the light of family policies implemented in China and Sub-Saharan Africa. …
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While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under … issues of age structure stabilization and convergence, by considering a population whose fertility and mortality are … structures will end up with the same long-run age structure when fertility and mortality laws are converging, which requires …
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egalitarian grounds --although the conclusion is reversed when mortality strikes only after retirement. …
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