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China is concerned about the security of its sea-lanes for imports and desires to diversify its oil supplies from the … Middle East in order to sustain economic growth. These concerns have sparked China’s interest in trying to ensure oil … supplies from as many sources as possible and in reducing its overwhelming reliance on seaborne imports of oil, which, in China …
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China has becoming in 2006 the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), responsible for one-fifth of world … generation capacities substantial investments in China’s energy infrastructure are necessary. But the potential investors are … confronted with uncertainty in the design of China’s future climate policy, which might affect the profitability of GHG emitting …
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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...
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inequality. In each case, we discuss recent and possible policy reforms. We make comparisons with China’s federal system where …
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This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …
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The traditional education system in Qing China has been widely debated over the past decades. Some have argued it was …
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discusses the interaction among economic globalization, economic development, and marketization reform in China, so as to … present an answer to the question of how China should participate in economic globalization. …
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This paper examines structural change in the power and heat producing sector (energy supply) and its implications for the economy. An integrated approach is used to describe the interactions between this sector and the rest of the economy. Thus, a very detailed model of the sector for Denmark...
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The sovereign debt crisis, which currently affects especially the European Union, challenges on the one side the actuality of hard borders and the reexamination of soft borders (Horga & Brie, 2008), and on the other side the need for the European Union to deal with an even more complex global...
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