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This paper analyzes China’s and Vietnam’s performance in reducing under-five child mortality in a comparative … the provision of key public services deteriorated. As a result, child mortality reduction in China and Vietnam was only … the relative status of women, which is better in Vietnam than in China. The other stems from the fact that the perverse …
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China have attained high rates of economic growth. Export-led growth has taken over the status as model for developing … of Japan, the Tiger states and China with their respective strategies of industrial policy and export-led growth. Is …
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The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has …. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the … from concepts of the cultural theory of Oswald Spengler. The paper will look at the South China Sea from two perspectives …
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We examine changes in market values and accounting returns for a sample of publicly traded Chinese firms around announcements of block-share transfers among government agencies (“State Bureaucrats”), market-oriented State-owned enterprises (“MOSOEs”) and private investors (“Private...
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The U.S. and China are the world’s largest and second largest CO2 emitters, respectively, and to what extent the U ….S. and China get involved in combating global climate change is extremely important both for lowering compliance costs of … China will take on commitments at some specific point of time in the future, this paper has argued that the proposal for …
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Chinese products to the U.S. market, even given China’s own recent announcement to voluntarily seek to reduce its carbon … open the possibility for the U.S. and China to make the commitments that each wants from the other side, the inclusion of … imported products. Being targeted by such border carbon adjustment measures, China needs to, at a right time, indicate a …
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international emissions trading?; c) how is an inflow of CDM investment in China perceived politically in comparison with the … 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 …
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allowed. Because of a great deal of low-cost abatement opportunities available in the energy sectors of China and India and …
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In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets (0.23 km2). Five weeks earlier, riots did not erupt in South Korea when North Korea proved that it has nuclear weapons. How can we explain moral outrage in one case, when the...
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Maintaining today’s global imbalances would help to overcome the major disproportion of our times – income gap between developed and developing countries. This gap was widening for 500 years and only now, in the recent 50 years, there are some signs that this gap is starting to decrease. The...
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