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The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of … Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerates the measures that China has taken so far … responsibilities to address its many domestic pressures in relation to geopolitics, the financial crisis, as well as global trade and …
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, Singapore, Korea, China and Japan) as well as Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei. These are the economies that have consciously …
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Taking into account the latest data of exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union from South Asia and China …
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Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government … have developed in their absence. As a result, China has ended up with an export basket that is significantly more … China's rapid growth. What matters for China's future growth is not the volume of exports, but whether China will continue …
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As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in … the country and its international economic policies has increased among international economists who are not China …
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Review of Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka. Catherine Brun and Tariq Jazeel (Editors). Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2009, 260 pp, Rs. 695.
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This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments) in the growth of farm productivity in West Bengal, India between 1981-95. A farm panel from a stratified random sample of...
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International trade has played an essential role in Asia’s remarkable growth, development, and integration in recent decades. Infrastructure, both hard and soft, has played an integral part in facilitating that trade, primarily through reducing the associated transaction costs. Regional...
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This study attempts to quantify the links between infrastructure investment and poverty reduction using a multi-region general equilibrium model, supplemented with household survey data for the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Infrastructure investment is an important step in economic...
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In order to advance regional integration in East Asia, there needs to be a rapid expansion of FTAs. The obstacles in promotion of FTAs need to be resolved. Some of the features in realising FTAs are: Strong political leadership which keeps Japan's future firmly in mind; strong support from public;...
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