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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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Burundi, a small fragile economy, went through sporadic civil war since its independence in 1962 during which rampant insecurity had adverse impact on the country’s social and economic development. While Burundi is agriculturally rich, high rate of growth of rural population places...
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So far no existing study has analyzed what determines people’s trust in the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO even though – in the absence of democratic accountability – this is one of the few ways to assess the legitimacy of these institutions. This study is intended to fill this gap in...
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available, China is widely expected as the world’s number one host country of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects. But …, making this potential a reality represents a significant challenge for China, because there has been a general lack of …. This has raised great concern about China’s ability to compete internationally for CDM projects and exploit fully its CDM …
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domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de facto research centers in China and investigate whether the effect of R …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology … differences across three major regions in China, we use a novel semiparametric approach that allows us to model heterogeneities …
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the proposal for joint accession by the U.S. and China in the interest of China?, and 2) Even if participating a global … cap-and-trade regime is so beneficial to China as many economic studies suggest, why has China consistently refused in … perspectives: a) how does China value importance of maintaining unity of the Group of 77?; b) what lessons has China learned from …
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Many economic studies suggest that China would reap significant benefits from participating in a global cap …-and-trade regime. The question then is that even if such a regime is so beneficial to China, why China has consistently refused in … perspectives: a) from the point of view of fairness, how do developing countries including China and India perceive emissions caps …
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This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
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China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. Recent studies show that China had overtaken the U ….S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community … starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under the Bali Roadmap. China seems to become such a Christmas tree on which …
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