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In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) diets are largely based on cereal or root staple crops. Together with socio-cultural change, economic and demographic growth could boost the demand for meat, with significant environmental repercussions. We model meat consumption pathways to 2050 for SSA based on...
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This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low … one form or the other, these distortions have implied significant transfers from households to firms. If China is to …
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We revisit the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces. A comparison of off-sample (1996-2004) predictions to actual emissions indicates that more stringent rules are still needed to fight industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary...
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China’s exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the … different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. Somewhat … overlap in the export structure between China and high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human capital and government …
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manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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