Therefore the most critical and perhaps difficult task for the Chinese government may very well be to design a mechanism to guide enterprises to serve the greater good while still maximizing profitability. 5.4 Institutional Development Diverse cooperation mechanisms under the BRI framework create ...
Global environment problems are symptomatic of the diminishing returns from the way in which the world economy has been exploiting its remaining land and natural resources for the past 50 years, although this exploitation has deep historical roots in past eras as well (Barbier, 2011). In essence...
and working to achieve the objectives and tasks for moderate prosperity Our main considerations in setting this goal were as follows: China will face some factors in its development that are difficult to predict due to the great uncertainty regarding the covid-19 pandemic and the world economic ...
A large proportion of young people were having problems with social relations at age 15 and 18. In general, social relations were strongly related to not completing a secondary education, especially among girls. For instance, 18-year-old girls finding family conflicts difficult to handle had a ...
Economic load dispatch problems involve linear equality constraints which are difficult to handle along with discontinuous, non-differentiable and highly non-linear objective functions. The problem becomes challenging for optimization techniques, especially for deterministic methods. This study presents a new ...
However, this variable excludes illegally present foreigners, an even more disadvantaged segment of the population that although difficult to detect would be worth addressing. Similarly, the positive relationship between IPC and the presence of homemakers (according to ISTAT data, mostly women) could ...
This chapter: (i) explains why private-sector Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) and their ratings opinions are unconstitutional (with emphasis on CRAs that rate corporate, municipal and government financial-instruments); (ii) explains why government bailouts
Thus, it becomes more difficult to disentangle the effects of state-level political factors from federal incentives. Second, during the past decade, renewable technologies have become more competitive in the energy market. Between 2010 and 2018, the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE)44 of ...
global heat stress makes it difficult for the body to maintain its core temperature, thereby increasing morbidity and mortality from heat stroke5,6,7. Countries across all latitudes, including Russia8, the USA9, China5, Australia10and North Africa11have suffered from increased heat stress since ...
The healthcare sector in many advanced economies faces similar issues, including labor and skills shortages as well as increased demand for at-home care. All of these cost escalators can make it more difficult for existing systems to handle the increased prevalence of chronic diseases, while also ...