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The Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Reflections on Cooperation Mechanisms Pertaining to a Shared Watercourse
Sunchindah, Apichai - eSocialSciences - 2013
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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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
Huang, Wei; Lei, Xiaoyan; Ridder, Geert; Strauss, John; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
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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BCIM Economic Corridor: Prospects and Challenges
Sahoo, Pravakar; Bhunia, Abirup; Dhankar, Sonali - eSocialSciences - 2014
Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China …
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of India's Exports: Comparison with China
Veeramani, C.; Gupta, Prachi - eSocialSciences - 2014
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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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2014
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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Policy Brief: OECD: Decentralisation in Asian Health Sectors: Friend or Foe?
Uchimura, Hiroko; Jütting, Johannes - eSocialSciences - 2006
help the poor if local resources, accountability and governance are in good shape. The process in China and India had …
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Reform of the Chinese Electric Power Market: Economics and Institutions
Zang, Chi; Heller, Thomas C. - eSocialSciences - 2006
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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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.
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What’s So Special about China’s Exports?
Rodrik, Dani - eSocialSciences - 2006
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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Attracting Export-Oriented FDI:Can India Win the Race?
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - eSocialSciences - 2006
peer groups such as China. The empirical literature on the location of EFDI indicate that countries with relatively low …
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