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Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are...
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The foreign direct investment (FDI) strategy has imbued India’s once stagnant industrial sector with capital and job … opportunity. However, as India’s GDP grows ever larger, there is a concern that the growth within the country is not evenly …
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This paper presents empirical evidence to show how socioeconomic factors affect the adoption of and investment in agrochemicals in the cocoa sector of Côte d’Ivoire. The analysis uses primary farm-level data collected in 2002 from a nationally representative sample of more than one thousand...
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efforts in India, this paper specifically takes up the issues of urbanization as related to energy usage and sustainability … strong evidence of urbanization having led the continual increase in energy use per capita in India. The pattern of …
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aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
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In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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Atmospheric concentration of the Green House Gases, Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide has increased largely since Industrial Revolution. Continued GHG emissions at or above current rates would cause further warming and induce many changes in global climate system. Climate changes will...
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Turkey is heavily dependent on expensive imported energy resources (oil, gas and coal) that place a big burden on the economy. Air pollution is also becoming a great environmental concern in the country. In this regard, renewable energy resources appear to be one of the most efficient and...
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