Article history: Accepted 15 February 2011 JEL classification: D90 C62 O21

This paper gives a brief overview of China’s family planning policy which, although recently relaxed, still controls a large swath of the population. Unofficially known as the ‘one-child policy’, it resulted from the social strife of the 1970s coupled with a Malthusian pessimism concerning the capability of the still largely closed and isolated Chinese economy to care for itself. We discuss the...

Cities regularly face a wide range of economic development choices that inevitably create both winners and losers within their communities. Proper assessment of the impacts of such choices requires not only an appropriate modelling framework but also explicit understanding and incorporation of a city’s income distribution priorities. This paper proposes that a computable general equilibrium (CG...

This paper provides general theorems about the control that maximizes the mixed Bentham-Rawls (MBR) criterion for intergenerational justice, which was introduced in Alvarez-Cuadrado and Long (2009). We establish su¢ cient concavity conditions for a candidate trajectory to be optimal and unique. We also show that the state variable is monotonic under rather weak conditions. And …nally we prove t...

We evaluate the effectiveness of regional targeting in China’s large-scale poverty alleviation program begun in 1986 by analyzing a panel data set of all counties in China for the period 1981-95. Estimates of models of poor county designation and poverty fund allocation and newly defined targeting gap and targeting error measures show that political factors have affected targeting and that leak...

This paper examines the macroeconomic and structural constraints to scaling up aid fl ows to developing countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals in 2015, including infrastructure, competitiveness and the real exchange rate, labour markets, fi scal constraints, governance, and aid volatility and fragmentation. The impact of these constraints on cost-effi cient sequencing and compositio...

【Keywords】Child malnutrition, Anthropometrics, Stunting, Wasting, Underweight, Social determinants of health, Millennium Development Goal (MDG), Health policies, Lao PDR (Laos) 【JEL classification】I18, O15, O21 【Abstract】The prevalence of stunting and underweight among Lao children is amongst the highest in the region. This paper provides a theoretical framework which integrates the mechanism o...

Due to the lack of necessary requirements in existing regulations for decommissioning offshore oil and gas fields Vietnam, this paper makes policy recommendations based on comparison between planning Vietnam similar closure opencast coal mines Scotland. The comparative analysis shows that there is interplay project context restoration/decommissioning outcomes cases three East Ayrshire, Scotland...

Currently, the Thailand government is promoting biofuel, especially producer of biodiesel. Starting from 2015, Ministry Energy has determined that palm oil remaining domestic consumption 14 million liters per day in 2036. Forecasting biodiesel prices are most important since price volatility affects renewable energy future. This paper presents with time series decomposition method. The source d...