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16 January 2017
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Report
12 January 2017
China–UK–Africa Trilateral Cooperation on Trade and Investment: Prospects and Challenges for Partnership for Africa’s Development
Published by: IDS
This study was conducted in the context of the China–UK Cooperation on African Trade and Investment for Poverty Reduction. It focuses on the evolution of bilateral relations between China and the UK towards trilateral relations with Africa and on building a framework for future cooperation.
Book
3 January 2017
A Pillar of National Energy Security: Industrial Energy Efficiency
Published by: Routledge
This chapter on industrial energy efficiency offers an overview of the policies and efforts undertaken by the Chinese government to reduce energy consumption, an important element of China’s energy security strategy.
Journal Article
1 January 2017
The Political Economy for Low-carbon Energy Transition in China: Towards a New Policy Paradigm?
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
China has become the leading country to develop wind and solar energy industries. By presenting the institutional arrangement and interest constellations of China’s regulatory system of renewable energy sectors, this paper argues that the reasons for China’s swift expansion of wind and solar energy investment go beyond the notion of a state-led model.
Report
1 January 2017
Who Drives Climate-relevant Policies in the Rising Powers?
The future of human life on our planet is influenced increasingly by what goes on in the rising powers. This report presents a political economy analysis of their policies, comparing China, India, Brazil and South Africa.
News
19 December 2016
New “BRICS in International Development” book lauded in Beijing
“BRICS in International Development”, published earlier this year by the Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development and Palgrave was lauded by former World Bank Chief Economist and Vice President, Justin Lin at the inaugural Global Research Consortium on Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST) conference in Beijing last week.
Past Event
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
China’s global South relations: gender and sexuality dimensions
China’s interactions with the Global South have been the subject of much attention and study from both inside and outside the country. Yet issues of gender and sexuality have been largely ignored. What are the gender and sexuality impacts of China’s foreign investment, and are they any better or worse than those of other countries?
Journal Article
13 December 2016
Lifestyle Leapfrogging’ in Emerging Economics: Enabling Systemic Shifts to Sustainable Consumption
This paper combines the concept of leapfrogging with systems-thinking approaches to outline the potentials for and barriers to enabling systemic shifts to strong sustainable consumption in the emerging economies of China and India.
Past Event
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
The Changing Government-Business relationship under the ‘New Normal’ in China
The Chinese economy sits on a strategic yet worrying turning point from the high speed booming to a slower growth, which is conceptualized by the officials as the 'New Normal'. Dr Lu's presentation aims to reveal how to understand the elusive yet vital concepts coined by the Chinese government and their underlying implications to China and the World.
Report
6 December 2016
State–Business Relations Beyond Growth: Bringing in Development
Published by: IDS
The signatories of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have called on a wide range of businesses ‘to apply their creativity and innovation’ to address sustainable development challenges. Yet the role of business in contributing to development depends profoundly on its interaction with the state. This paper asks how states and businesses interact in different contexts to shape development outcomes.
