The rapid development of developing countries, particularly in Asia, and the establishment of trade agreements, make these markets more attractive to western firms, all the more as growth is stagnating in their own countries. But several strategies are possible: • Simply profit from the...

he Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts global sea level to rise (SLR) by up to 60 cm by 2100 in response to ocean warming and glaciers melting. Moreover, it is expected that sea level rise might be of 1 meter or more in 2100 due to recent...

Technological change has been attributed an important role in reducing the costs associated to climate change mitigation through GHG emission reductions. The adoption and deployment of low-carbon and environmentally friendly technologies has been at the center stage of climate negotiations....

The Copenhagen Accord sets the target for the post-Kyoto international climate framework that limits global temperature increase below 2 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels. In order to achieve this target, the allocation of emission quotas among countries is discussed. In this paper, we...

There have been many studies show that there are significant differences in wages between China's workers engaged in formal employment and informal employment, but very few studied the career intention of informal workers. Informally workers in such a disadvantageous position, are they voluntary...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of trade cost reduction on the Asian economy by employing a sub-national level model based on New Economic Geography. Our model comprises seven sectors, including manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors, and 1,715 regions in 18...

Today, China is the world’s leading gold producer and its second largest consumer. Traditionally imposing strict regulations on its gold market, China has ushered in a process of liberalisation a decade ago, encouraging individual gold trading, gold import and export. A boom in domestic demand...

This study is motivated by the China puzzle: the very impressive post-reform growth with relatively low aggregate volatility in the absence of healthy financial institutions by international standards. We argue that political economy constraints on the reform process have made China‟s...

Corruption undermines economic development and therefore it is one of the major factors hindering economic growth and political stability, especially in the developing countries. Studies in recent years show that countries with rich natural resources have the potential to shape corruption....

The primary objective of this paper is to precisely elaborate the links between trade and economic development and it explains in a very descriptive fashion how hufe investment in socio-economic activities will help economies to strengthen development process Applied Research Economies need...