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The Global Race for Excellence and Skilled Labour: A Status Report
Rollwagen, Ingo; Renkin, Tobias - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the domain of the developed Western economies. Numerous regions of the world, some in the emerging markets in particular – the often-cited BRIC countries – are catching...
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Trading with Asia’s Giants
Bosworth, Barry - eSocialSciences - 2008
India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that … of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with United States is less than 10 percent … as large. Even more striking, Japan’s trade with India is less than 5 percent of its trade with China. The large U …
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Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigor and Relevance of Social Theory
Woolcock, Michael - eSocialSciences - 2008
important, if often under-appreciated, steps to incorporate insights from social and political theory, but that these (hard …
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From Theory to Practice: Translating Research into Health Outcomes
Medicine, PLoS - eSocialSciences - 2008
Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part of the behaviour-change process.
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2012
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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Towards A Competitive Economy: VAT and Customs Duty Reform
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform, with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
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Climate Change and China: Technology, Market and Beyond
Wen, Dale Jiajun - eSocialSciences - 2009
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 …
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Environmental Sector China: From Major Building Site to Growth Market
Heymann, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2009
level of western nations. Per unit of gross domestic product China consumes more than four times as much energy. The most …
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India's SEZ Policy
Mårtensson, Ebba; Olsson, Per - eSocialSciences - 2012
Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic Zone (SEZs) policy became part of a strategy to maintain high growth and promote India’s manufacturing sector. However, India’s current SEZ policy does little to strengthen India’s...
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Private Sector Industrialization in China: Evidence from Wenzhou
Strauss, John; Qian, Edward Y.; Shen, Minggao; Liu, Dong; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in Wenzhou. The study is done by relying on a probabilistic firm survey that we carried out in Wenzhou in early 2006 for three industries: shoes, eyeglasses and general equipment. Not a...
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