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Development Economics
Environmental Economics
Regional/Spatial Science
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Political Competition at a Multilayer Hierarchy: Evidence from China
The most salient feature of China’s economic development in the past three decades is the remarkably high and sustained level of economic growth: China’s real GDP growth rate was on average 9.6 per cent during...
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Adjusting to Really Big Changes: The Labor Market in China, 1989–2009
Until China began its post-Mao economic reforms, the country did not have a genuine labor market. State-owned enterprises were the only source of demand for labor. Administrative agencies assigned workers to f...
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Choose Countries for HGDI Measurement
In the report, we conducted the HGDI measurement for 123 countries. In the choice of countries, we mainly considered two elements: firstly, the data integrity. All candidate countries should have relatively co...
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Five Suggestions for SDGs—Inspirations from HGDI Measurement
Through the study on the evolution from the MDGs to the SDGs and based on the careful analysis for the worrisome downward trend of earthly environment, we came up with the HGDI and measured and studied the gre...
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HGDI Compilation Principles
HGDI compilation principles mainly include:
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Results and Analysis of HGDI Measurements
Based on the HGDI indicator system, we measured and obtained the HGDI values of the 123 countries and their rankings accordingly. See specific information in Table 6.1.
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Extreme Poverty Indicator: Proportion of Population Below Minimum Level of Dietary Energy Consumption
Poverty reduction is a global problem confronting all countries in the world. Due to such severe challenges to the world economic development as resources and environment pressure and reduced biological divers...
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Theoretical Rationale Behind HGDI
The theoretical rationale behind the HGDI will be elaborated via a comparison with Amartya Sen’s theory.
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Choosing HGDI Indicators and Constructing Indicator System
The human green development can be reflected through many kinds of indicators such as welfare indicators, green economy indicators, and environment, resources and ecology indicators, involving more than 20 ind...
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Approaches to Measure HGDI
To ensure the comparability of each country in green development level, all HGDI indicators we adopt are relative indicators, which can be divided into two specific categories. One is intensity indicator which...
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Forest Indicator: Forest Area (% of Land Area)
For quite a long time, man has been exploiting natural resources without restraint, and forest felling in particular, has brought about a series of problems for the global ecosystem, such as serious soil erosi...
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Energy Indicator: Primary Energy Intensity
Energy is a material resource that is essential to national economic production and life of urban and rural residents and one lifeline that affects economic and social development as well. However, at the same...
