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– Challenges and opportunities for the Mekong region
This paper aims to contribute to understanding the existing knowledge gaps in the linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia and explores the political economy of energy transition in the Mekong region (MR). Investigating the struggle over hydropower development and decision-making on...
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– Does China break the mould?
We propose a general taxonomy of the political economy challenges to wind power development and integration, highlighting the implications in terms of actors, interests, and risks. Applying this framework to three functions in China’s electricity sector—planning and project approval, generator cost...
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– A comparative political economy analysis
China and India will have to radically transform their electric power systems in order to decouple economic growth from unsustainable resource consumption. While the majority of transition literature has focused on the diverse socio-technical factors that could enable such a transformation, more...
Journal Article
– A Comparative Perspective to the Asian Giants
Part of Journal Special Issue
Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
Journal Article
– Brazil and the CIBS in a Comparative Perspective
Part of Journal Special Issue
Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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– China and India
Part of Journal Special Issue
Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
– Impacts, Prospects and Implications
The rise of China and India is rapidly reshaping the world economy, with far-reaching implication for every national and regional government, business community, and individual citizen. Arising from the UNU-WIDER research project 'Southern Engines of Global growth', this volume explores the...
Policy Brief
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– China, India, Brazil and South Africa
This Policy Brief focuses on links between the developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s spectacular growth on developing economies and the rest of the world. The issues considered include changing...
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– A Disaggregated Analysis
The paper analyses export productivity and trade specialisation in China, Brazil, India and South Africa. The investigation calculates a time-varying export productivity measure using highly disaggregated product categories. The modelling shows that export productivity is determined by real income...
China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy. These Southern Engines countries have experienced a dramatic transformation in their productive and trade capabilities, consequently turning into global super powers. The current age of globalization, in which the Southern...
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