China’s outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical...
Belt and Road
The Complex Interdependence of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Philippines
Complex interdependence refers to the multiple channels of interaction and agenda in interstate relations, which involve domestic (public and private) stakeholders and nonmilitary issues. Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...
The ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ and comparative regional productivity in China
We study potential internal effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative. These effects may occur sooner than the international effects, since they face no delay from partner negotiations and from financing...
Development
Economic valuation of biodiversity in South Asia: The case of Dachigam National Park in Jammu and Kashmir (India)
Biodiversity needs our attention because humans receive a wide range of direct and indirect benefits. Valuation of biodiversity is important to establish the importance of use and non‐use values of biological...
Understanding the spatial disparities and vulnerability of population aging in China
Understanding the regional pattern of population aging in China enables rational policy making to address the challenges of inequity in social welfare and care resources among the east–central–west regions and rural–urban...
The Belt and Road Initiative: what is in it for China?
China’s outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical...