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deterioration of the environment in Asia for another one to two decades. China will remain the largest polluter in Asia, but it …The two key threats to coal`s long term dominance in Asia are: (1) its uneven distribution of reserves and lack of …`s believed it will become Asia`s largest user of emissions control technology by 2015. The authors have subjectively weighed the …
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Net private capital flows (Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Portfolio Investment and private credit flows) to emerging market economies declined significantly after the 1997 Financial Crisis. In 2002, the world's net private capital flows to emerging markets declined to the lowest level in the...
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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)...
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examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …
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instead on the potential role of the Chinese renminbi. It becomes increasingly clear that China will assume the role of the …
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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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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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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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Nigeria and China. As the OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and … difficult(OECD, 1998, 2001). Should China and Nigeria follow a similar pattern to other societies during the development process …
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This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal decentralisation, focusing in particular on the impact of the level of income on the level of fiscal decentralisation. Various measures of fiscal decentralisation, several of them novel in this context, are employed in a cross-country...
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