Handbook of Green Finance
Energy Security and Sustainable Development
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Post-independence Malaysia has achieved significant economic growth: faster than that of most of the develo** countries of Africa and Latin America, slower than the tiger economies of Northeast Asia, and sim...
Book and Living Reference Work (Continuously updated edition)
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The Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development (JSC) was established in 2016 to promote United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a generous grant of USD 10 million from the Jeffrey Cheah ...
Book and Reference Work
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In 2017, global investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further. Clearly, fossil fuels still dominate energy investments. This could threaten t...
Living Reference Work Entry In depth
In 2017, global investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further. Clearly, fossil fuels still dominate energy investments. This could threaten t...
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China has now moved considerably away from being an imitative latecomer to technology toward to being an innovation-driven economy. The key lessons from China’s experience are that (1) there is synergy between...
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The most striking features of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are, arguably, its membership list and the changes in the list over time. Despite widespread concerns about globalization and about the role of ...
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Viewing the Chinese economy as a speeding car, there are three types of development that could crash the car: (1) a hardware failure, which is the breakdown of an economic mechanism (analogous to the collapse ...
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There is now widespread concern in Washington over the large and growing U.S.-China trade deficit. This concern is premised on the view that the large trade deficit has reduced U.S. welfare by increasing unemp...
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Broadly speaking, there were two initial explanations for the unexpected nature of the Asian financial crisis. The first explanation emphasized the common structural problems (soft rot) in the crisis Asian cou...
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