Social DependencyDemographic PolicyIn this paper, we investigate how much Chinese households have contributed to China's economic growth between 1980 and 2015 from the perspective of ageYao, QingsongZhao, GuoqingWang, ZijunSocial Science Electronic Publishing
Some people think that paying taxes is enough to contribute to the society. Others argue that being a citizen involves more responsibilities. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. ...
A typical large wind turbine can generate up to 1.8 MW of electricity, or 5.2 million KWh annually, under ideal conditions -- enough to power nearly 600 households. Still, nuclear and coal power plants can produce electricity cheaper than wind turbines can. So why use wind energy? The two ...
It is far from the only hatred of its kind. The economist Ed Glaeser once wrote a paper called “The Political Economy of Hatred.”He was trying to understand, as he put it, “anti-black hatred in the U.S. South … anti-Semitism in Europe, and … anti-Americanism in the Arab world...
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Such evidence complements the recent empirical studies on the impact of import competition on households, family, and risk sharing (Huber and Winkler, 2019; Keller and Utar, 2018; Autor et al., 2019). We also contribute to the literature on the economic impact of China's trade liberalization...
Economy refers to the level of a country's measure in the allocation of available resources to produce and distribute products to consumers. Different states have different economies due to governments' different strategies to put resources into commercial activities....
However, large-scale recycling programs were very rare -- households predominantly practiced recycling. The mass production of the industrial age is, in many ways, the very reason we need to worry about large-scale recycling. When products can be produced (and purchased) very cheaply, it often...
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