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In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...
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The aim of this paper is to learn about some patterns of sectoral and industrial structural change of the Chinese economy over the 1995-2010 period. To such a purpose, we set up a quantitative methodology via input-output modelling, which allows us to decompose gross output into some key demand...
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This paper is a continuation of our study of structural change in China and deals with the changes of domestic …
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industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …
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This study examines the long-run relationship between industrial pollution and income in China using provincial panel …; the heterogeneity cautions us against simple panel model specification. -- Environmental Kuznets curve ; Pollution …
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China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and … has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution and CO2 emissions. While estimates of the embedded CO2 emissions … in China's trade differ, both single country studies for China and global studies show a hefty chunk of China's CO2 …
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China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory …, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and … produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China's energy mix, as Beijing …
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findings, we recommend that China should support the expansion of high-speed rail in order to reduce carbon emissions in a …
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The industrial organization of developing countries is characterized by the pervasive use of subcontracting arrangements among small, financially constrained firms. This paper asks whether vertical integration relaxes those financial constraints. It shows that vertical integration trades off the...
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