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    Doing business with Afghanistan

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    India and Afghanistan enjoy a rich civilization and historical relationship that spans many millennia; a relationship that has gained strength from India’s role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
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    External preferential trade agreements and the Indian economy: an analysis of impacts and counter measures

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Deepening of plurilateral commercial relations elsewhere in the world is set to affect emerging countries like India in many ways, especially when they are excluded from preferential trading arrangements.
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    South-South technology transfer low carbon building technologies: market assessment report, Malawi

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    The high rate of urbanisation in Malawi puts tremendous pressure on the entire building material sector. With constraints in supply of material and demand far outstripping supply, both the quality of material and the application (house) has degraded to an alarming extent. This has resulted in poor quality and increasing construction costs.
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    The separate environmental tax for China: a scheme design and its implementation

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2011
    Construction of Chinese environmental taxation system could greatly promote establishment of an intensive style economic development mode and a sustainable consumption manner, and could provide policy guarantee for an eco-civilisation and environmentally friendly society.
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    Taxation reform for promoting low carbon green growth in China

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2011
    Climate change, ecosystem degradation, desertification, deforestation, the impacts of pollution on human health, the growing resource scarcity, as well as concerns about food, energy and water security are current challenges facing China.
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    The design on China's carbon tax policy to mitigate climate change

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    Carbon tax was an effective policy tool to cope with the climate change and promote energy saving and emission reduction. A Computable General Equilibrium Model was set up to simulate the influence of levy carbon tax on China's macro-economy, energy saving and CO2 emission reduction. The results suggest that low rate carbon tax was a feasible option in China's near future.
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    BCIM economic cooperation: prospects and challenges

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2007
    This study is an attempt to explore the potentials for expanding trade and investment under the ambit of sub-regional cooperation comprising four contiguous countries of Eastern South Asia, which includes the two fast growing economies – India and China, and the two developing economies – Bangladesh and Myanmar (BCIM).
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    Innovation and additionality for development finance: looking at Asia

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2013
    The issue of introducing innovation in financing came into discussion at Monterrey in response to the recurring failure of most developed countries to live up to their commitment to enhance flows of official development assistance (ODA) to the developing countries in order to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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    Recent developments in Myanmar: opportunities for sub-regional energy cooperation

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014
    In the context of the political and economic changes that have marked Myanmar since 2010, this paper assesses the opportunities for sub-regional energy cooperation between four countries: Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar, with Myanmar as a node.
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    Anchoring growth and employment: the interaction between manufacturing and services in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    Manufacturing has been identified as a key marker for growth and employment driver in South Africa. Yet the sector itself is no longer a major source of employment creation internationally. Using cointegration, this paper assesses the relative importance of manufacturing and service sectors in achieving long term growth and employment objectives in South Africa.

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