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Towards an Economics of Happiness
Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Gorelick, Steven - 2004
The authors have studied the effects of global economic development on individuals and cultures for the last three decades and have concluded that the most strategic and effective way of building a more positive future is through economic localisation. Fundamentally, localisation is about...
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A prefeasibility study of energy resource options in Hainan, China
Hill, L.J.; Russell, M.; Barron, W.F.; LaRocco, P.; Shen, Z. - 2008
This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435877
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Effect of market structure on international coal trade
Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009
examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …
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Yen of Yuan? China's Role in the Future of Asian Monetary Integration
Hefeker, Carsten; Nabor, Andreas - 2002
instead on the potential role of the Chinese renminbi. It becomes increasingly clear that China will assume the role of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442407
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Hedge funds and China’s stock market: a study on factors influencing investment decisions by fund managers
Phan, Alan - 2006
Hedge funds and China’s stock market: a study on factors influencing investment decisions by fund managersThe research … was conducted using a web-based questionnaire sent to all Asia-related hedge funds, worldwide. Analysis of the collected … data revealed that the factors influencing the portfolio investments made in China by fund managers differed from the …
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An Evaluation of American Companies that Outsource Manufacturing to China: Decision-Making and Performance
Favreau, Michael Kenyon 1980- - 2007
management is expected to make in the next 12 months (Wery, 2004). “Outsourcing in China can help many companies save money …, but it can be very frustrating if not done right†(Ting, 2004). The perceived benefits of outsourcing production to China … outsource their production to China. The information regarding outsourcing overseas was collected from 22 American firms and 24 …
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Out with the old'-An evaluation of the relevance of traditional chinese cultural beliefs in today's China
Willis, Mike; Quan, Veng - 2009
relevance-in today's modern China-of various traditional Chinese values such as trust, respect and guanxi, in regard to personal …
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Measures of environmental and sustainable socioeconomic welfare and the political economy of capitalism - theoretical reconstruction, technical specification, and critical analysis...
Brennan, Andrew John - 2009
This study undertakes a critical analysis of measures of environmental and sustainable socioeconomic welfare from the perspective of political economy. One of the prime motivations for such an inquiry is that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) provides an inadequate measure of social and ecological...
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Improving Unsustainable Western Economic Systems
Dixon, Frank - 2004
To help guide development of the Gross National Happiness (GNH), this paper analyzes Western economic systems. Drivers of environmental and social problems will be discussed with the goal of helping Bhutan avoid these pitfalls. The paper then suggests a strategy for developing the GNH as well as...
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