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Since the onset of economic reforms in 1978, China has been remarkably successful in reducing the carbon dioxide … competition, and technological change. China's industrial and technology policies also have contributed to lower carbon dioxide …
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employs unique firm-level data from China's most energy-intensive large and medium-size industrial enterprises in each of … these four industries over a six-year period from 1999 to 2004. It empirically examines how China's energy-saving programs … intensity in all four industries. China's industrial policies targeting scale economies -- for example, "grasping the large …
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This paper explores the economic impacts of two related tracks of China's expected transformation—economic slowdown and … on Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper finds that an average annual slowdown of gross domestic product in China of 1 … globally by 0.6 percent relative to the past trends scenario by 2030. However, if China's transformation also entails …
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This paper utilizes a countrywide, county-to-city upgrade in the 1990s to identify whether extending the powers of urban local governments leads to better firm outcomes. The paper hypothesizes that since local leaders in newly-promoted cities have an incentive to utilize their new administrative...
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This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study …, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index and a model of labor mobility, to calculate the impact of China …'s growth on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The resulting evidence suggests that the rise of China has had …
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and opportunities for Latin America that come from China's rise, and draws lessons from New Structural Economics and the … to avoid further de-industrialization arising from the competitive pressures of the rise of China, broaden the base for …
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Hong Kong SAR, China, and Macau SAR, China, and the second-nature advantages as first-movers in the reforms in attracting …
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This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead …. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and … the difference between China and other countries, are due to unusually high enterprise and government saving. Moreover …
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The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant … development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have generated …
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initial drawback, low administrative costs, and leakages in the tariff collection system. In China duty drawback removal after … meeting WTO commitments will deepen domestic supply chains and improve welfare, but will hurt China s economic efficiency …
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