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China’s New Development Strategy: Environment and Energy Security
Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyzes China's development strategy by focusing on both global and regional approaches to solving problems … of energy security and ecological imbalance by addressing specifically the problems of China’s energy security. PRC … assumption can be seen to entail the goal of creating further technological capabilities. In particular, China seems to be firmly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621715
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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?
Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056564
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Decomposing the Effects of Economic Policies on Poverty Trends in Cameroon: A Double Calibration Micro Simulated General Equilibrium Analysis
Emini, Christian Arnault; Kanmi Feunou, Dorine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper aims at bringing out the determinants of the significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each major economic policy implemented in Cameroon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070485
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Big Reforms but Small Payoffs: Explaining the Weak Record of Growth and Employment in Indian Manufacturing
Gupta, Poonam; Hasan, Rana; Kumar, Utsav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector over the last two decades. However, an acceleration of growth in manufacturing, and a corresponding increase in employment, has eluded India. Why have the reforms not produced the intended results? Using Annual Survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621863
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Regional Trade Agreements in East Asia: Will They Be Sustainable?
Park, Innwon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
-and-spoke type of overlapping RTA strategy), (iii) the AFTA vs a China-Japan-Korea RTA (a duplicating or competing RTA strategy), (iv …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837424
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Challenges for Sustainable Development: Rapid Urbanization, Poverty and Capabilities in Bangladesh
Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the causes and consequences -- in particular, the policy implications -- of the ongoing urbanization in Bangladesh. Like many other Asian developing countries, a rapidly increasing share of the population of Bangladesh migrates to urban centers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620173
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Free Trade Agreements versus Customs Unions: An Examination of East Asia
Park, Innwon; Park, Soonchan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
welfare effects compared to FTAs. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to support the second best theory of customs … Asia (an ASEAN+3 CU and a China-Japan-Korea CU) compared to FTAs by applying a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790322
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Education Inequality, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality : Evidence from Indonesia, 1996-2005
Digdowiseiso, Kumba - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143699
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Congestion pricing, infrastructure investment and redistribution
Russo, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We study congestion pricing by a government that has redistributive concerns, in the presence of optimal income taxation. Individuals differ in (unobservable) earning ability and consumption technology for commodities using a congestible network (e.g. roads, Internet). We find, assuming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839208
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Central Government's Infrastructure Investment across Chinese Regions: A Dynamic Spatial Panel Data Approach
Zheng, Xinye; Li, Fanghua; Song, Shunfeng; Yu, Yihua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study employs spatial panel techniques to examine determinants of regional allocation of infrastructure investment made by the central government. Using a sample of 31 Chinese provinces over the 2001-2008 period, we derived four major empirical findings. First, there exist substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113521