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within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
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files related to the allocation of coal blocks, border security issues with Pakistan and China, and the current economic …
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The ambitious development plans for the Lancang-Mekong River Basin (LMRB) could have serious environmental, social, cultural and even geopolitical ramifications that could in turn destabilise the Mekong Subregion (MS). On the premise that frameworks for regional cooperation offer a viable route...
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Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may...
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Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China …
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study of exports is undertaken from India and China by analysing the role of extensive and intensive margins in the export …
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Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
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and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although foreign investment has been flowing into … China and employment in the low-wage industries is expanding, wages of Chinese workers are not rising. In fact, China is … study of China's hukou system and how it affectes the wages of migrant workers, the paper shows how the Chinese hukou system …
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To power national development, the government organized electricity production and distribution as a state-owned vertically integrated utility, structured and operated under central planning. Electricity was supplied on the basis of political priority instead of cost, and the single party...
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The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
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