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Environmental Economics
Regional/Spatial Science
Qi** Li
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The Coke Industry in China
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An Environmental Socioeconomic Framework Model for Adapting to Climate Change in China
Global warming will be a significant common issue facing society in the 21st century. At the Third Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP3) held in Kyoto, it was a...
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Is the Time-Varying Parameter Model the Preferred Approach to Tourism Demand Forecasting? Statistical Evidence
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A note on the theory of investment: Hotelling’s rule under process independence
This note shows that the well-known Hotelling rule holds for a wider class of capital investment projects satisfying the property of process independence. Optimality behavior is therefore not a necessary condi...
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An empirical analysis of household choices on housing and travel mode in Boston
We study household choices on the housing type and travel mode in Boston in the year 1991. We first develop a theoretical model for an integrated analysis of housing and travel mode choices, which implies that...
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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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Rethinking the impacts of foreign investors on urban development: the city of Macao
A number of papers in the economics and urban literature find positive impacts of foreign investment on cities and praise the role of foreign investors in urban development. The author argues for a different s...
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Genuine saving under stochastic growth
The concept of genuine saving has in recent years become widely accepted as a dynamic welfare indicator, which first appeared in Weitzman (Q. J. Econ. 99:1–13, 1976) and then formalized by Pearce and Atkinson (Ec...
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Strategic interaction and the determinants of public health expenditures in China: a spatial panel perspective
This paper examines determinants of expenditures on public health in China using a panel of 31 Chinese provinces covering the period 1997–2008. In particular, we propose a spatial Durbin panel model with spati...
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Endogenous R&D spillover and location choice in a mixed oligopoly
We consider a three-stage game where a public firm and a private firm choose R&D, location, and price, under the assumption that R&D spillovers rely on their locations. We show that, in equilibrium, whether th...
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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...
