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that together determine the new economic geography of industry and pollution within China …China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this … survey examines recent work that studies the economic geography of industrial production, per-capita income, pollution and …
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China's extremely high levels of urban air, water and greenhouse gas emissions levels pose local and global … environmental challenges. China's urban leaders have substantial influence and discretion over the evolution of economic activity … pollution issues. Based on a principal-agent framework, we present evidence consistent with the hypothesis that both the central …
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potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …
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attributes such as local air pollution and green space. A city's greenness is a function of both its natural beauty and is an …
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.0 percent in GDP. Such unresolved and emerging problems as growing income disparities, increasing pollution, pressures on … attainability of the CCP's goal. However, China's progress in addressing fundamental constraints that might limit rapid economic … are not in doubt. In education, China has substantially increased the percentage of its workforce receiving a college …
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China from the extraordinary into the mundane. Systematic understatement of inflation by enterprises accounts for 2 …
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products, aggravating environmental damage. China's rapidly growing trade and serious environmental degradation appear to be no … exception. However, much of China's trade growth is attributable to the international fragmentation of production. This kind of … trade could be cleaner, if fragmented production occurs in cleaner goods, or if China specializes in cleaner stages of …
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This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...
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In 1953 the Western Allied powers implemented a radical debt-relief plan that would, in due course, eliminate half of West Germany's external debt and create a series of favourable debt repayment conditions. The London Debt Agreement (LDA) correlated with West Germany experiencing the highest...
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Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
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