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Transportation is vital to economic and social development, but at the same time generates undesired consequences on local, regional, and global scales. One of the largest challenges is the mitigation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, to which this sector already contributes...
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The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper provides evidence that …
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Studies comparing household surveys with on-site interceptor surveys have typically accounted for over-sampling avid users in the on-site interceptor surveys (that is, endogenous stratification). However, these studies have typically not accounted for the possibility that the household sample...
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This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study …, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index and a model of labor mobility, to calculate the impact of China …'s growth on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The resulting evidence suggests that the rise of China has had …
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This paper explores the economic impacts of two related tracks of China's expected transformation?economic slowdown and … on Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper finds that an average annual slowdown of gross domestic product in China of 1 … globally by 0.6 percent relative to the past trends scenario by 2030. However, if China's transformation also entails …
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Hong Kong SAR, China, and Macau SAR, China, and the second-nature advantages as first-movers in the reforms in attracting …
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and opportunities for Latin America that come from China's rise, and draws lessons from New Structural Economics and the … to avoid further de-industrialization arising from the competitive pressures of the rise of China, broaden the base for …
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emerging market countries such as China, India and Brazil are also engaged in industrial upgrading but with a critical … difference. In particular, because of its sheer size, China has absorbed nearly all labor-intensive jobs and become the world …?s largest exporter of labor-intensive products. The current view is that China?s dominance hinders poor countries from …
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-level panel dataset obtained from China. The results show that economic structure, development strategy and environmental …
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In the past 30 years, China has achieved phenomenal economic growth, an unprecedented development "miracle" in human … history. How did China achieve this rapid growth? What have been its key drivers? And, most important, what can be learned … from China's success? Policy makers, business people, and scholars all over the world continue to debate these topics, but …
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