Revive China's green GDP programme

An Egalitarian Green Growth Programme for India

This is a shortened version of a paper written for the forthcoming Festschrift in honour of Utsa Patnaik, to be edited by C P Chandrasekhar and Arindam Banerjee, and published by Tulika Books. A working paper version of the full study is also available online at: http://www.peri.umass.edu/fi leadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_ papers_351-400/WP389.pdf We are grateful to the editors of the forth...

A Study of China’s ‘Grain for Green’ Programme

Since 1999, China has spent RMB 50 billion (about US$7 billion) to implement the ‘Grain for Green’ programme, the largest land retirement programme in the developing world. From 1999 to 2003, over 7.2 million hectares of agricultural land were retired under the programme. However, many farmers report that they did not receive the compensation promised under the programme in exchange for plantin...

Two hospitals revive school-based care.

Young endothelial cells revive aging blood.

The hematopoietic system declines with age, resulting in decreased hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) self-renewal capacity, myeloid skewing, and immune cell depletion. Aging of the hematopoietic system is associated with an increased incidence of myeloid malignancies and a decline in adaptive immunity. Therefore, strategies to rejuvenate the hematopoietic system have important clinical implications...

The Grey Forecasting Model on the Forecast of Green GDP Accounting in Taiwan

 Abstract—Grey theory is a truly multidisciplinary to deal with systems that are characterized by few data for which information is insufficient. The grey forecasting model from grey theory was first applied in this paper to predict accurately the green GDP accounting of Taiwan from 2002 to 2010. Concerns about green GDP accounting are regarded as a human welfare indicator of economic progress...