... effectiveness of the pollution levy in reducing environmental effluents Our first set of regressions addresses this objective and it also provides estimates (instruments) for the endogenous inputs to ... the progress of China s reforms) as well as across classes of firms Therefore, we will disaggregate our eventual empirical evidence in order to examine differences between classes of firms and over ... levels of abatement inputs Since substitution between abatement and non-abatement inputs affects output, measures of emissions serve as instruments for the endogenous abatement decisions of the...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
... concern This study is designed to clarify the present shape of energy-related and environmental problems lurking behind China s high growth, and then to assess what self-help domestic efforts and ... the last 20 years, CO2 emissions grew by 2.1 times, which caused China s share in the world total emissions to rise from 8.2% to 13.7% Environmental problems originating in China have thus already ... is imperative Energy and environmental problems originating from China should be solved by China primarily through its self-help efforts As the problems stem from “system failures,” the first...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 05:21
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: The effects of ring-size analogs of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin S on phospholipid bilayer model membranes and on the growth of Acholeplasma laidlawii B ppt
... aqueous solution as antiparallel b-sheet structures separated by type II¢ turns, as does GS itself, although GS14 has a somewhat less rigid structure as compared to GS10, presumably due to its expanded ... presumably by causing cell lysis to occur, as has also been reported to be the case for GS itself in mycoplasma and bacterial systems [8] Interestingly, we find that GS itself is slightly less ... here, is GS14 > GS10 > GS > GS12 in Myr2Gro-PCho MLVs, GS14 @ GS10 > GS @ GS12 in Myr2Gro-PEtn MLVs, and GS > GS14 >GS10 > GS12 in MLVs of Myr2Gro-PGro Thus, although GS12 has the weakest effect...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21
the spillover effects of a downturn in china’s real estate investment
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Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 14:34
Impact of China’s WTO Accession on East Asia
... services is substantial and China expands not only its services sectors, but also its high-end manufacturing industries which use services as intermediate inputs (Figure 1) China s industry structure ... given China s agricultural reforms, there is scope for expansion of agricultural exports to China such as oilseeds and sugar as well as basic raw materials such as timber and energy products Table ... and assess qualitatively the net impact of China s WTO accession on East Asian developing countries’ foreign investment flows Our general equilibrium analysis suggests that accession will result...
Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2012, 13:09
China’s banking reform: Issues and prospects for the future
... and supervision How are banks doing? Suggestions for future steps Restricted Why all care for China s financial reform? China s outstanding growth performance justifies optimism And yet, such ... the costs • Distribution of costs not very transparent Restricted a Restructuring (con’t) Even larger disposal of bad assets: NPLs transferred to Asset Management Companies (AMC): – In first wave, ... challenges – WTO poses challenges for Chinese banking system and also some sectors in the economy (agriculture, etc) • Liberalization process will probably reduce interest rate spreads – Also fast growth...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 16:15
Tài liệu Cleaner Water in China? The Implications of the Amendments to China’s Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution pptx
... Discharge Permit Systems.51 Under these different systems, permits have been issued in increasing numbers In 1996, over forty thousand permits were issued in the cities that implemented a system.52 ... items covered by federal WEQ standards or establish local standards for items not covered.84 The development of these standards is similar to the standards in the United States The EPA sets treatment ... radioactive substances”;98 (3) “industrial waste residues, urban refuse, or other wastes”;99 and (4) “[a]ny highly toxic soluble waste residue containing such substance as mercury, cadmium arsenic,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the United States pdf
... highest savings rates in the world.8 The large level of savings has enabled China to boost domestic investment In fact, its gross domestic savings levels far exceed its domestic investment levels, ... facing China, and discusses the implications of China s economic rise for the United States Congressional Research Service China s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for ... household savings as well as corporate savings As a result, China s gross savings as a percentage of GDP has steadily risen, reaching 53.0% in 2008 (compared to a U .S rate of 9.0%), and is among...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy pptx
... elsewhere.58 Some economists view China s purchases of U .S securities as a type of subsidy that is transferred from Chinese savers to U .S consumers in the form of lower-cost Chinese products ... lower U .S interest rates That subsidy helps to boost U .S consumption of Chinese products, which supports China s export industries However, the subsidy is at the expense of Chinese consumers and ... with China (the gap between U .S exports and Chinese imports) All else equal, Chinese government purchases of U .S assets increases the demand for U .S assets, which reduces U .S interest rates What...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu Hybrid Rice Technology Development Ensuring China’s Food Security potx
... of China s Seed Law in 2000 further promoted China s hybrid rice seed business with regard to seed market segmentation and business consolidation Quite a few large hybrid rice seed businesses ... trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development Mywish K Maredia, 2009 For all discussion papers, please go to www.ifpri.org/pubs/pubs.htm#dp All discussion papers ... lines, which have the following traits: insect resistance using Bt or GNA gene, disease resistance using Xa21, and low amylase content using antisense-Waxy gene (Yuan 2002b) Rice scientists have...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20
China’s Economic Rise—A Technical Note (Draft) pot
... measures are not really very useful PPP measures of a country s GDP are useful almost exclusively for assessing its standard of living PPP values are based on surveys of prices for goods and services ... at best China s recent surplus was thus not caused by an export growth acceleration 1030 Bil US$ (log scale) Exports 690 460 China' s Goods & Services Exports and Imports Imports 310 210 140 1999 ... imports, not accelerated exports China' s Exchange Rate A Secondary Influence at Best As seen from the earlier discussion, China s recent trade surplus, which opened up in 2005, has strong domestic...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20
An Unbreakable Cycle - Drug Dependency Treatment, Mandatory Confinement, And HIV/AIDS In China''''s Guangxi Province potx
... accessing drugs, and some suggest that it has recently become harder to smuggle drugs IDUs said that when drugs are available, mainly via guards, inmates share needles, makeshift or otherwise, ... that s the number we said, because any higher could have been called a human rights issue.”116 Conditions in RTL centers raise the same rights violations as conditions in detoxification discussed ... Swanstrom, China s War on Narcotics: Two Perspectives, (Washington, DC: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, 2006) 22 China Registers 740,000 Drug Addicts,” Xinhua,...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20
From Privilege to Competition - Unlocking Private-Led Growth in the Middle East and North Africa pot
... Constraints to Businesses Days Spent in Inspections or Required Meetings with Officials Senior Management s Time Spent Dealing with Regulations Inspections Where an Informal Payment Is Requested ... knowledge on business environment challenges in MENA—at least on selected issues presumed to be most pertinent to the region It also aims to inform policy makers and other stakeholders of successful ... the Resource Curse? Oil Rents, Foreign Aid Rents, and the (Dis)Incentives to Institutionalize The Genesis of Business Elites in Morocco Cairo s One-Stop Shop The Federal Institute of Access to...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
BIS Working Papers No 312 China’s high saving rate: myth and reality potx
... initiatives, before Section concludes Measurements and stylised facts of Chinese saving This section summarises the main data issues in measuring the Chinese saving rate and highlights some of its most ... most salient stylised facts 2.1 Data and measurement issues To lay a sound basis for discussion, we first clarify some of the confusions associated with the measurements of the Chinese saving ... industrial sales and assets doubled in the 200 0s This questions the theory that the Chinese corporate earnings are mainly inflated by distortions and subsidies Graph Profits, sales and assets of...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
China’s International Behavior pot
... to understand This monograph aims to make such assessments more accessible and meaningful This research is relevant for U .S policymakers and strategists who are focused on managing U .S. -China relations, ... Environments for a Rising China, ” SASS Papers, No 9, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2003, p 98 16 Wen Jiabao, “A Number of Issues Regarding ... has one China s strategy is best understood as comprising multiple layers, each adding to an understanding of the totality of it This monograph analyzes these layers, assesses the challenges...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20
China's Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence - How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance
... that serves both sovereign wishes as well as those of the market But this is not a book only about China s triumphs The good-news story also comes with a dark side What CDB has wrought also has ... China s Superbank ffirs October 2012; 18:22:37 Since 1996, Bloomberg Press has published books for financial professionals as well as books of general interest in investing, economics, current ... disastrous consequences The system of local-government financing—triumphant as it was in boosting Chinese growth in recent years—has led China s heretofore quickly commercializing financial system...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:32
NO PAPER TIGER Subsidies to China’s Paper Industry From 2002-09 doc
... released rosy, official data on China s extremely high stocks of fish Currently, the FAO uses its own estimates on China s forestry reserves and businesses These estimates often contradict China s ... Organization s observers noted increasing unrest in Chinese fishing villages because of fish shortages Independent sampling revealed serious shortfalls in China s fish reserves with many species on the verge ... obtain forestry subsidies and concessions Subsidies fell sharply in 2009 as world prices and corresponding Chinese prices (on which calculation of subsidies are based) fell as well Because the calculations...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20
Everlasting Pearl One of China''''s Women docx
... pair of shoes and stockings, a sash, a number of embroidered purses, with a few dollars in them, also some vegetable seeds, peanuts, sunflower seeds, etc Most of these things were graciously received ... that "the King 's business requireth haste." CHAPTER VIII 19 CHAPTER VIII MISERABLE COMFORTERS The case of Everlasting Pearl 's husband was a hopeless one, and despair took possession of both mother ... asked questions about spiritual matters, his answers would cause astonishment and surprise The Spirit of God was taking of the things of Christ, and showing them unto him, and day by day his...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20