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The Adjusted Measure of Body Mass Index for the Chinese and its Impact on Health

Qiu, Tian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

based on the ratio of height to weight, linked to health, using a four-year (1991, 1993, 1997 and 2000) panel data set which … comes from the Physical Examination in China Health and Nutrition Survey. To an extent we confirm the results with respect … range based on self-reported health. We also find that variables such as income can modify the impact of an adverse BMI on …

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Understanding household savings in China: the role of the housing market and borrowing constraints

Bussière, Matthieu; Kalantzis, Yannick; Lafarguette, Romain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the role of rising housing prices and borrowing constraints as determinants of China's high household saving rate, especially among young households. Using a life-cycle model of saving behavior in the presence of borrowing constraints, we show that the relationship between...

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Child Mortality In China And Vietnam In A Comparative Perspective

Alberto, Gabriele; Schettino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper analyzes China’s and Vietnam’s performance in reducing under-five child mortality in a comparative perspective. Under the market socialist model, both countries achieved very high rates of GDP growth, but income distribution and the provision of key public services deteriorated....

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Emotions and International Conflicts: Sociological, Evolutionary and Rational Views

Khalil, Elias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets (0.23 km2). Five weeks earlier, riots did not erupt in South Korea when North Korea proved that it has nuclear weapons. How can we explain moral outrage in one case, when the...

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Global imbalances: an unconventional view

Popov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Maintaining today’s global imbalances would help to overcome the major disproportion of our times – income gap between developed and developing countries. This gap was widening for 500 years and only now, in the recent 50 years, there are some signs that this gap is starting to decrease. The...

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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

system that then existed in the world, and (c) the transition from a uni-polar world, with the U.S.A. as the single center of …

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Is it fair to treat China as a Christmas tree to hang everybody’s complaints? putting its own energy saving into perspective

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. Recent studies show that China had overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under...

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In what format and under what timeframe would China take on climate commitments? A roadmap to 2050

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are...

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