Incentive Effects of Price Rises and Payment-System Changes on Chinese Agricultural Productivity Growth [PDF]
This paper analyzes the relative importance of the major factors underlying the post-1978 increase in China's agricultural productivity. We present a method for assessing the role of price increases and strengthened individual incentives due to the ...
Zhu Li Jing, John Whalley, John McMillan
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Fully Mobilize the Enthusiasm, Initiative and Creativity of the Whole Society to Participate in Chinese Modernization [PDF]
The key to building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation lies in the party and the people.
Jing, Hao
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Sustainable Development and Structural Bottlenecks in Transition Economies: New Uzbekistan
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses the sustainable development of Uzbekistan over 2016–2024. The methodology combines min–max normalization and unweighted aggregation to derive goal‐level composite scores and an overall SDG index, correlation analysis, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to characterize the goals that shape the country's progress; key ...
Khusanboy Abdufattokhov +1 more
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Nonlinear Effects of Renewable Energy Integration on Sustainable Development in OECD Countries
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the nonlinear relationship between the green quality of the energy mix and sustainable development in 35 OECD countries from 1995 to 2022. Unlike conventional renewable‐energy shares, the Green Quality Index (GQI) is an emissions‐weighted indicator that accounts for differences in the carbon intensity of energy sources and ...
Leping Huang +4 more
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China's Ongoing Agricultural Modernization: Challenges Remain After 30 Years of Reform [PDF]
Thirty years ago, China began implementing a series of reforms to improve efficiency in agricultural production. These, and subsequent, reforms reshaped China’s position in the world economy.
Lohmar, Bryan +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate transitions are widely presented as pathways toward decarbonization, green growth, and sustainable development, yet their social effects are mediated by labour‐market segmentation, regional dependence, institutional capacity, and unequal political voice.
Jacob Kwakye, Solomon Tawiah McBanasam
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Material Heterogeneity and Waste‐Trade Networks in EU‐27 Circular‐Economy Convergence
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU monitoring summarizes circular‐economy progress with aggregate indicators, although material‐specific adjustment and cross‐border secondary‐resource links may follow different paths. This study examines convergence across the EU‐27, heterogeneity among biomass, metal ores, non‐metallic minerals, and fossil‐energy materials, and network ...
Pan Jiang, Shuaiyi Lu, Lianghan Cong
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The modernization process in Greek Agriculture: The case of investment aid [PDF]
The present study focuses on certain critical aspects of the agricultural modernization, in the course of implementation of the investment aid scheme in Greece. Although the investments made under the scheme, contributed to the significant reorganization
Karanikolas, Pavlos, Martinos, Nikos
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Circular Economy in the Built Environment: A Systematic Literature Review 2005–2025
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) offers a viable pathway for advancing sustainable development in the built environment (BE) due to its potential to reduce waste, resource extraction, and environmental impacts. This study conducts a systematic literature review (2005–2025) to examine CE research through a unifying analytical perspective across the ...
Thao T. P. Bui +5 more
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The capability of personal values and guanxi to reduce negative external effects of Chinese agriculture [PDF]
China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of agricultural products, but the intensive agriculture contributes in a remarkable manner to environmental problems.
Bergmann, Holger, Weber, Daniela
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