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| Chai, Joseph C.H.. |
| This paper uses the manufacturing sector in China to consider whether globalization of the Chinese economy over the past two decades has contributed to the decline in environmental conditions. The results show that China's experience with the trade liberalization-environment nexus is consistent with international evidence. On one hand, trade liberalization has had various positive effects on the environment. Firstly, it promoted specialization in areas of comparative advantage, which, in general, included industries that contributed less to environmental degradation. Secondly, it allowed China to access and adopt the best international practices in pollution abatement technology. Thirdly, it enabled China to transfer environmental costs to other countries... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Trade liberalization; China; Manufacturing; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48005 |
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| Riethmuller, Paul C.; Chai, Joseph C.H.. |
| Japanese food processors have been faced with internal and external squeezes in recent years. Internally, the industry is faced with an overall demand ceiling due to Engel's law and a rapidly changing demand structure due to the "westernisation" of the Japanese consumers' taste. Externally, the industry is faced with increased import competition as a result of the liberalisation of the Japanese import market for agricultural and processed food products. Under these pressures, performance of the Japanese food processors in terms of productivity and profitability, is found to be below average, compared with Japanese manufacturing as a whole. Associated with the deteriorating productivity and profitability performance, Japanese food processors have stepped up... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12332 |
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| Chai, Joseph C.H.. |
| This paper estimates the immediate impact of China's accession to WTO on water, air and soil pollution in the Chinese manufacturing sector. The pollution effects of WTO accession are decomposed into three categories: composition, technical and scale effects. The results suggest that the immediate environmental impact of China's WTO accession will be largely positive. The dismantling of import barriers on China's highly protected heavy industries and the phasing out of MFA enable China to specialize according to its comparative advantage. Its resources will be relocated from capital, land, energy and other natural resources intensive heavy industries and channeled into labor-intensive light industries. As the latter industries are cleaner than the former,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: WTO; China; Trade liberalization; Industrial Organization; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48010 |
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