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Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or increase of expenditures. The current financial crisis...
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China and India into the global markets. This rise has also deteriorated the situation of low-skilled workers in advanced …
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general equilibrium analysis that carbon based import tariffs are more effective as a menace towards China than for saving CO2 … womöglich eher als Drohung gegenüber China als zur Einsparung von CO2-Emissionen eignen. Kapitel 5 weist im Rahmen einer …
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relations on firm's economic performance in China. In particular, by using a unique own survey of Chinese agribusiness firms a …
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, China and inflation, unemployment and placement responsibility, Japan and lifetime employment, placement as a marketing job …
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Since China’s application in 1987 to resume its status in the Generalized Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT …)/World Trade Organization (WTO) there has been a great deal of debate over the timing of China’s accession. Although most of the … issues relating to the timing of China’s trade liberalization have been resolved, the abolition of restrictions on Chinese …
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China first adopted minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) in 1989. Today, there are standards for a wide range of … domestic, commercial and selected industrial equipment. In 1999, China launched a voluntary endorsement label, which has grown … to cover over 40 products including water-saving products. Further, in 2005, China started a mandatory energy information …
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In the last five years, China's refrigerator market has grown rapidly, and now urban markets are showing signs of … the first half of 2007, when the draft standard was completed under the direction of the China National Institute of … of the label on China's market, CLASP further provided assistance to CNIS to collect data on both the efficiency …
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The minimum energy efficiency standards program for household appliances in China was initiated in 1989. Since 1996 …, CLASP and its implementing partner, LBNL, have assisted China in developing 11 minimum energy performance standards (MEPS … (under development). Before 2003, China's traditional approach to standards development involved small increases in …
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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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