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The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...
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Labour market policies in Denmark, especially measures for the unemployed, recently received much attention, because of …. Denmark offers a flexible labour market with minimal regulations combined with high social security. This ‘flexicurity’ has …. However, Denmark has been able to embed activation into the tradition of a generous and universal welfare state. The paper …
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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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and environmental problems in China. In the past year, the models and data developed by the project have been used to … software development to improve our modeling tools and on the refinement and application of the China Energy System model. The … algorithms of SuperCode. The China Energy system model has been extended somewhat and its parameters have been documented (they …
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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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