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he Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts global sea level to rise (SLR) by up to 60 cm by 2100 in response to ocean warming and glaciers melting. Moreover, it is expected that sea level rise might be of 1 meter or more in 2100 due to recent...
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Technological change has been attributed an important role in reducing the costs associated to climate change mitigation through GHG emission reductions. The adoption and deployment of low-carbon and environmentally friendly technologies has been at the center stage of climate negotiations....
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countries in C&C is smaller than in HR. China becomes the importer of emission rights in the long run, Even under the scenario … HR whose allocation method is based on cumulative CO2 emissions. GDP loss in China increases over time (GDP losses in … China worsen off over time). …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of trade cost reduction on the Asian economy by employing a sub-national level model based on New Economic Geography. Our model comprises seven sectors, including manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors, and 1,715 regions in 18...
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Today, China is the world’s leading gold producer and its second largest consumer. Traditionally imposing strict … regulations on its gold market, China has ushered in a process of liberalisation a decade ago, encouraging individual gold trading …
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Corruption undermines economic development and therefore it is one of the major factors hindering economic growth and political stability, especially in the developing countries. Studies in recent years show that countries with rich natural resources have the potential to shape corruption....
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The primary objective of this paper is to precisely elaborate the links between trade and economic development and it explains in a very descriptive fashion how hufe investment in socio-economic activities will help economies to strengthen development process Applied Research Economies need...
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by 1% for the USA and China and 40% for Brazil when taking trade-induced productivity gains into account. The USA are the …
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The causality between energy consumption and real income in developed countries has been a very vital research topic in recent years. Raising concerns about climate change and global warming increase the pressure on policy makers to take action against energy depletion. Unfortunately these...
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COP17 in Durban revealed once again the general willingness to commit to the 2°-target and the difficulty to reach an international Post-Kyoto agreement until 2015. There is strong evidence from model-based analysis that economic costs of reaching the 2°-target will be below global GDP growth...
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