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Pollution Across Chinese Provinces
Co, Catherine Yap; Kong, Fanying; Lin, Shuanglin - eSocialSciences - 2008
The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341719
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Impact of Air Pollution on Human Health in Dehra Doon City
Gautam, A.; Mahajan, M; Garg, S - eSocialSciences - 2009
To study the adverse health effects of exposure to ambient air pollution in different areas of Dehra Doon. To examine … the relationship between the levels of air pollution and the percentage of affected people in selected area of Dehra Doon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969786
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Valuation of Urban Air Pollution: A Case Study of Kanpur City in India
Gupta, Usha - eSocialSciences - 2006
pollution in the urban industrial city of Kanpur in India. A notable feature of this study is that it uses data from weekly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341736
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Morbidity Costs of Vehicular Air Pollution: Examining Dhaka City in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Tanzir; Imran, Mohammad - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study estimates the morbidity costs of reduction in air pollution in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, using the … from reducing air pollution to meet national safety standards is Taka 131.37 (USD 1.88) per person from reductions in lost … estimates of the benefits of reducing air pollution in Dhaka relative to previous analyses that has relied on the benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461008
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Can Social Security Boost Domestic Consumption in the People’s Republic of China?
Dewen, Wang - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and improve its social security system and...
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The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty
Easterly, William - eSocialSciences - 2010
Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF and World Bank, reduces the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725996
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Rising Inequality With High Growth Isn't This Trend Worrisome? Analysis of Kerala Experience
Subrahmanian, KK; Prasad, Syam - eSocialSciences - 2008
The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699210
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Historical Sources of Institutional Trajectories in Economic Development: China, Japan, and Korea Compared
Aoki, Masahiko - eSocialSciences - 2013
This essay provides a game-theoretic, endogenous view of institutions, and then applies the idea to identify the sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of East Asian economies as peasant-based economies in which...
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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL: [http://fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/141.pdf]
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The Indian Economy since Independence
Vyasulu, Vinod - eSocialSciences - 2007
debated between different ideologies and interest groups, and increasingly engaging with the world. The ultimate result is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487633