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This study focuses on the technological intensity of China's exports. It first introduces the method of decomposing … significant portion of value added embodied in China's high-technology exports comes from services and high …
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€™s industrial clusters challenges this view. Historically, China has had a lot of industrial clusters with their own traditional … in responding to exploding domestic demand. This paper explains these features in detail, using Yiwu China Commodity City …
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Over the past 20 years Asian countries have achieved a certain degree of economic growth and at the same time deepened spatial interdependence. In January 2006, IDE completed the 2000 Asian International Input-Output Table, which covers eight major East Asian countries/regions as well as Japan...
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This paper investigates the current situation of industrial agglomeration in Costa Rica, utilizing firm-level panel data for the period 2008-2012. We calculated Location Quotient and Theil Index based on employment by industry and found that 14 cantons have the industrial agglomerations for 9...
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In this paper, based on the recent advances in the new economic geography (e.g., Fujita, Krugman and Venables [12]), we analyze impacts of transport costs on the spatial patterns of economic agglomeration. We first identify prototypes from the existing models, and explain the mechanism of how...
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Introduction: During the period from the latter half of the 1980s until just before the Asian currency crisis in 1997, Indonesia's economic development had drawn expectations and attention from various quarters, along with Malaysia and Thailand within the same Association of Southeast Asian...
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A simple static model incorporating a variety of environmental pollution is developed. An autarky model shows that a … developing country regulates fewer types of pollution by income-induced environmental policy. As income grows, the types of … regulated pollution increase and also introduced regulations become tougher.Then the model incorporates international trade …
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To enhance Chinese agricultural production, improve food quality, build consumer trust, and encourage the export of agricultural products, the Chinese government designed the Chinese version of Good Agricultural Practice (ChinaGAP) based on the main principles of the GlobalGAP combining the...
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Labour NGOs in China are relatively new organizations that emerged in the 1990s and have spread during the 2000s …. Migrant workers in China are weak both socially and economically and have been lacking ways of voicing grievances and …
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quality improvement of Chinese export goods in its IIT with Germany. We compare the case of China with those of Eastern … between Germany and Eastern European countries is clearly narrowing. However, China's export prices to Germany are much lower … than Germany's export prices to China, and this gap has not narrowed over the last 23 years. This is at odds with the …
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