China has frequently been questioned about the data transparency and accuracy of its energy and emission statistics. Satellite-derived remote sensing data potentially provide a useful tool to study the variation in carbon dioxide (CO2) mass over areas of the earth's surface. In this study, Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) tropospheric CO2 concentration data and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis ...

This paper examines the impact of leadership transition on government expenditure, particularly the composition of the expenditure. Using the Chinese provincial-level data during the period 1992-2006, we find that the transition of provincial leaders seems to have no significant effect on expenditure composition, either in the short run or long run. However, if the origins of provincial leaders...

Pharmaceutical policy in Canada is set at both the federal and provincial levels of government. The federal government is responsible for intellectual property rights of manufacturers (patents) and the initial approval and labelling of prescription drugs and for ensuring overall market competitiveness. The provincial government has responsibility and jurisdiction over the funding of all health ...

Provincial-municipal restructuring in Canada has received considerable attention during the 1990s from both provincial and municipal levels of government. The fiscal download by the Federal government to the provinces and the municipalities, along with the growing acceptance of a new public management philosophy, have been the two common variables encouraging provincial-municipal reforms over t...

In order to realize county-level land use database remittance, establish the provincial land use database and realize annual change statistics, this paper analyzed the requirements for establishing the provincial land use database remittance standards. It proposed the principle of establish the standard compile, introduced the standard establishment process, described the standard main content,...

this paper aims at determining isfahan provincial industries orientation as well as relating the comparative advantage indexes and their changes with the province’s industrial characteristics. therefore, applying “factor analysis”, “principal components analysis” and “numerical taxonomy analysis” methods, the paper calculates the determining indexes of the province’s industrial development and ...

Correction In the original publication [1] are errors in the acknowledgement section in the backmatter. The corrections can be found below in this Erratum. Incorrect affiliation 4: Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control, No. 2 Lujing Road, Guangzhou, China, 510095. Correct affiliation 4: Guangdong Provincial Center for Skin Diseases and Sexuall...

Using the information provided at the district level in the latest report for 2007, we have calculated the provincial prevalence applying the method used in the 2006 report. This involves simply summing the number of HIV-positive cases per district sample and dividing by the total sampled population for the province. The national prevalence is estimated as the weighted average of the provincial...

This paper analyzes the pattern of provincial economic integration in China for the period 1991−98 by means of an errorcomponents model that decomposes provincial sectoral real valueadded growth into common national effects, industry-specific effects and province-specific effects. We find significant comovements in the long run although province-specific factors still account for one-third of t...