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We estimate the carbon intensity of industries, products, and households in South Africa. Direct and indirect carbon usage is measured using multiplier methods that capture inter-industry linkages and multi-product supply chains. Carbon intensity is found to be high for exports but low for major...
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This paper evaluates the greenhouse gas emissions and economic impacts from producing biofuels in Tanzania. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and household poverty
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South Africa hopes to expand wind and solar power. Success depends on how and where to deploy the technologies. This study develops a 10-year database of expected power generation for these technologies across South Africa. A power system model simulates
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This research report first discusses tropical platations in global forestry. It emphasizes that tree plantations presently include much a wider range of categories, purposes, species variety and management forms than commonly perceived.
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China has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide … domestic supply for several materials. Thus, China needs to import raw materials. In order to satisfy its needs, China has …
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This Policy Brief focuses on links betweenthe developing countries of Brazil, India,China and South Africa and the … global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China.s spectacular growthon developing economies and the rest …
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This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … in rural China would decrease only marginally if such disparities were to vanish. In contrast the spatial dimension is … much more important for income inequality and for wealth inequality in rural China. …
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Land efficiency in urban China is examined, using Tianjin as a case study, from the perspective of agricultural land … conservation; reduction in energy use, conventional pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions; and human time savings. Issues … greater variation in urban densities (leveraging already high densities in urban China – one-third the global median), less …
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The paper discusses views on China and India as country role models. In so doing the article recounts the economic and …
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This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of … growth and job creation. Being a bit ahead in the structural transformation process, China can provide ideas, tacit knowledge …
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