Recent strong growth of China’s exports has elevated the country to a rising global economic power and caused geo-political concern to policy-makers in the country and its trading partners world-wide. What are the determinants of this growth, how has it affected major economies in ASEAN (World Bank, 2009) in particular, and what kind of evidence-based responses are required and appropriate? The...

Both CO2 and non-CO2 emissions are liable in climate change policies many countries around the world. However, there still impact assessment studies different regions that consider only emissions. We hypothesise excluding greenhouse gas emissions, which also policies, may lead to misleading results impacts. employ a global policy model (GTAP-E-PowerS) examine how of uniform carbon tax at US$15 ...

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) are expected to play an essential role in achieving the industries' goal of carbon-neutral growth. However, producing biomass-based SAFs may induce changes global land use and associated carbon stock. The induced change (ILUC) emissions, as a part full life-cycle emissions for SAF pathways, will affect whether what extent reduce compared with petroleum-based je...

the present paper evaluates the effect of investment risk spillover on key economic indicators using a CGE model and the GTAP.9 database have been used for this purpose. Two scenarios of 10% and 3% increase in investment risk are considered in order to investigate the effect of these changes according to a recent trend analysis of economic indicators in Iran and the trend of the Iranian economy...

Will Trade Liberalization Harm the Environment? The Case of Indonesia to 2020 Anna Strutt and Kym Anderson Most-favoured-nation (MFN) trade liberalizations will always improve global economic welfare provided globally optimal environmental and other policies are in place. But since the latter proviso is not met in practice, empirical studies of the environmental and resource depletion effects o...

This study evaluates the regional and sectoral CO2 emissions estimated by different CO2 emissions accounting methodologies around 2050 under different CO2 reduction scenarios. The production-based measurement of CO2 emissions is based on polluter pays principle, while the consumption-based measurement is based on beneficiary pays principle. In the field of global warming, the widely used method...

As the most populous economy in the world, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of urbanization since the start of its economic reforms in the late 1970s. The rapid urbanization was accompanied by large flows of rural to urban migration and a growing demand for a clearer specification of the rural land ownership. Since the 2000s, when the conventional restrictions on rural to urban migra...

The ongoing trend towards livestock product consumption in many Asian countries has been accompanied by growth in some countries’ imports of feedgrains for their domestic livestock sectors. It has also has put pressure on available grain supplies for human consumption. With regard to China, this contributes to the ongoing debate over future levels of her grain imports. Yet published projections...