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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model … scenario.The authors conclude that Chinese agriculture is relatively resilient to climate change. Chinese food security by 2050 …
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Energy Saving Technology Diffusion via FDI and Trade: A CGE Model of China
Hübler, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper introduces intra- and inter-sectoral technology diffusion via FDI and imports into a recursive-dynamic CGE model for climate policy analyses. It analyzes China’s accession to a Post Kyoto emission regime that keeps global emissions from 2012 on constant. Due to ongoing energy...
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Impact of climate variation on agricultural productivity and food security in rural India
Kumar, Ajay; Sharma, Pritee - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
with other socioeconomic and government policy variables affect food security. Food security and poverty are interlinked …
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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
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Determinants of Technology Transfer through CDM: the Case of China
Weitzel, Matthias; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Technology transfer (TT) is not mandatory for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, yet proponents of CDM argue that TT in CDM can bring new technologies to developing countries and thus not only reduce emissions but also foster development. We review the quantitative literature on...
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With a little help from my friends: Supplying to multinationals, buying from multinationals, and domestic firm performance
Görg, Holger; Seric, Adnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper uses firm level data for 19 African countries to look at the link between domestic firms’ business relationship with multinationals and their performance in terms of innovation and productivity. Quite uniquely, we also evaluate the importance of support received by the domestic...
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The Optimal Transfer of Capital and Embodied Technologies to Developing Countries
Hübler, Michael; Lontzek, Thomas S. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
We study the North-South diffusion of technologies embodied in internationally mobile capital in a framework of intertemporal global welfare maximization. Convergence of the growth rates of technical change in the North and South always occurs in the long-run. However, the degree to which the...
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Energy Savings via FDI? Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries
Hübler, Michael; Keller, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
In this paper we examine the influence of foreign direct investment inflows on energy intensities of developing countries empirically. We first show that a simple OLS estimation, as it is found in the literature, suggests energy intensity reductions from FDI inflows, which is consistent with the...
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Avoiding the Trap: The Dynamic Interaction of North-South Capital Mobility and Technology Diffusion
Hübler, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper analyzes a stylized model of international capital mobility and diffusion of embodied technologies from North to South. The South can fall behind in terms of technologies or get trapped in a situation, in which it is unable to attract foreign capital and embodied technologies, if its...
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Including Maritime Transport in the EU´s Climate Change Policy: Country-Based Allocation and Effects
Heitmann, Nadine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
The European Union (EU) is actively campaigning for the global regulation of carbon emissions generated by maritime bunker fuels because these emissions are presently barely regulated and are projected to increase significantly in the coming decades. However, since a global regulation has not...
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