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Focusing on China’s medical insurance scheme which covers all employers and employees in urban areas, this research … microsimulation techniques. As an important part of the project, this article provides a brief overview of China’s medical insurance …
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the biggest shifts in the international economic and trading system: the rise of China. Even though China will have a … stake in maintaining trade openness, an initiative that builds on but redefi nes the Doha Agenda would anchor China more … would include the major issues of interest to China and its trading partners, and thus unleash the powerful reciprocal …
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, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s" dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the … global financial crisis. These results are consistent with China’s dominance hypothesis and with the view that the … international monetary system is already tri-polar. However, we also find that China’s currency movements are to some extent …
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More than two thirds of the world's population is expected to be living in urban areas in the second half of the 21st century. Economic performance, environmental sustainability and wellbeing of the population of the cities of the future are therefore very important issues. In this short paper...
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development. A review was conducted both in the Western literature and within China itself. The data for this study are from semi …-structured in-depth interviews with management consultants and business leaders in South China. The results of the study show that … key inhibiting factors in building sustainable organisations in China. The results of this study are expected to provide …
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This paper explores the underlying dimensions of absorptive capacity and its impact on the performance for firms in Zambia and Mauritius. It first defines a firm's capacity to absorb spillovers as a latent variable observable indirectly through its underlying dimensions. By means of structural...
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participants. The data collection period took place over a four-week period at train stations and shopping malls in Shanghai, China …
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In this paper we consider whether economic growth in China could be constrained by the physical development of the … and Strulik (2011) using city level data for China. In their paper they argue that the relationship between the size of … China between 2002 and 2007 to observe whether structural estimates match those of Dalgaard and Strulik (2011) for 50 US …
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This paper measures the energy efficiency performance with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 30 provinces in China …, it is used in a meta-frontier framework to reflect the technology heterogeneities across east, central and west China …. The results indicate that eastern China achieved the highest progress inefficiency relative to the metafrontier, followed …
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This paper estimates the Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) of CO2 emissions in China based on a provincial panel for … optimal specification controlling for various covariates is identified econometrically. A scenario simulation of China's 40 …–45% carbon intensity reduction based on our MACC is illustrated. Our simulation results show that China would incur a 559–623Yuan …
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