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Economic growth and the environment in China: an empirical analysis of productivity
Managi, Shunsuke; Kaneko, Shinji - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 1, pp. 89-133
China is an economic powerhouse with annual economic growth averaging close to 9% over the last 25 years. However, as a … pollution are threatening China's sustainable future. The principal focus of this paper is to measure total factor productivity …-level secondary industry data over the period 1992â2003. The results indicate that although China began implementing new environmental …
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R&D, human capital and environmental externality in an endogenous growth model
Ikazaki, Daisuke - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 1, pp. 29-46
This study constructs an endogenous growth model that incorporates the R&D sector, the education sector, and environmental problems. First, environmental impacts are considered. We show that, if government exercises appropriate policies and some parameter restrictions are satisfied, then the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461240
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R&D, human capital and environmental externality in an endogenous growth model
Ikazaki, Daisuke - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 1, pp. 29-46
This study constructs an endogenous growth model that incorporates the R&D sector, the education sector, and environmental problems. First, environmental impacts are considered. We show that, if government exercises appropriate policies and some parameter restrictions are satisfied, then the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005225848
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Alternative Forms of Mineral Taxation, Market Failure and the Environment
Muzondo, Timothy R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263912
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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains
Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167317
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Does an environmental Kuznets curve for waste pollution exist in China?
Kaneko, Shinji; Managi, Shunsuke; Fujii, Hidemichi; … - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 9 (2009) 1/2, pp. 4-19
China is an emerging and leading world economy. The pace of economic change has been tremendously rapid since the … China, no previous study has tested the EKC in China because of the difficulty in obtaining data and the need to adjust the … data. The focus of this paper is to test the EKC in China using province level data over the period 1992-2003. This study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668849
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Local eco-systems and some sustainable development problems of Georgia
Laitadze, Guram; Gongliashvili, Vera; Gotsiridze, Alex - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 4, pp. 391-400
One general understanding of sustainable development concept is this being a socio-economic model of society life, satisfaction of life's necessities for the current generation should be reached without deprivation of such opportunity for next generations. Thus, rational usage of natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461234
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Local eco-systems and some sustainable development problems of Georgia
Laitadze, Guram; Gongliashvili, Vera; Gotsiridze, Alex - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 4, pp. 391-400
One general understanding of sustainable development concept is this being a socio-economic model of society life, satisfaction of life's necessities for the current generation should be reached without deprivation of such opportunity for next generations. Thus, rational usage of natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005753970
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Environmental input-output analysis of the New Zealand dairy industry
Flemmer, Claire - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 15 (2012) 4, pp. 313-333
This work presents data and analysis quantifying the total (direct and indirect) resource use and outputs (products and pollutants) of the New Zealand dairy industry for the year April 1997 to March 1998. It also identifies those sectors supplying the dairy industry which make significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669551
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Renewable energy development and utilisation in China: opportunities and challenges
Xiliang, Zhang; Rong, Chen; Jiankun, He - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 24 (2005) 3/4, pp. 249-258
China is the largest developing country and the second largest energy-consuming and CO<SUB align="right"><SMALL>2 …</SMALL></SUB>-emitting country in the world. China has already regarded renewable energy development and utilisation as a … critical element of their sustainable energy strategy. In this context, China's renewable energy development and utilisation …
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