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This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...
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the pollution variation among municipalities within the same province, the per capita income level of municipalities …
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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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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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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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