China, India, and South Africa have recognized the importance of renewable electricity for their future development. In this paper, we investigate the experience of the three countries in applying generation-based policies to promote renewable electricity. We show that they have developed...

Over the past three decades, China’s fast economic development has induced considerable changes in China’s university and research institution landscape, research financing and academic career incentives. This paper argues that these changes have affected the motivation and the ways in which...

Social science research in general is confronted with growing pressure to define parameters for research quality. This is especially the case in economic research. Publications in refereed journals have become an important parameter in this process. Consequently, for following up recent trends...