Abstract China’s outsized growth has almost continually surpassed outsiders’ expectations for four decades and may continue to do so in the future. However, a key element of the growth model, heavy ...reliance on real estate and infrastructure construction, may finally be running into diminishing returns. This paper summarizes new city-level data on China’s real estate and infrastructure capital from 2000 to 22 and provides evidence suggesting that the growth returns to new building may be falling in some regions. At the same time, real estate investment in particular has been a significant contributing factor to the local government debt vulnerabilities. Finally, the paper presents new findings on the combined direct and indirect impact of real estate and infrastructure construction on China’s economy, which has consistently exceeded 30% of GDP in recent years.
The sacred spaces of our cities have become more diverse in recent decades. Alongside established institutions, new voices are claiming participation in the coexistence of religious ideas as well as ...in architectural expression.
With the popularity of light trucks increasing in the United States, their share of the US light vehicle market had doubled between 1980 and 1996, climbing from 20 to 40%. By 1996, annual energy ...consumption for light trucks had risen to 5.97×10
15 Btu 5.97 quadrillion Btu, or “quad,” or 6.30×10
18 joule (J), compared to 7.94 quad (8.38×10
18 J) for cars. In recent years (since 1995), the fuel economy of US - manufactured light trucks (almost 99% of which use gasoline engines) has been below the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. This paper analyzes a strategy to reduce the CAFE shortfalls by adopting the new, highly energy-efficient clean diesel engine. Research on such engines has been funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Heavy Vehicle Technologies, under its Light Truck Clean Diesel Engine Program. A clean diesel engine market penetration trajectory is developed, representing an industry response to meet the CAFE standards. Whether the engine will be produced inside the country or imported remains uncertain, so two cases are defined. Values of exports/imports of clean diesel engines/trucks under these cases are estimated. The macroeconomic benefits are estimated by using a model of the US economy developed by Standard & Poor's Data Resources, Inc. On the basis of gains in the gross domestic product projected under the alternative cases, domestic production of the clean diesel engine is favored over importing it.
U radu su dane osnovne definicije kao i sadržajne i formalne značajke muzejskih edicija koje se pripremaju i objavljuju uz stalne izložbe (stalne postave) muzeja. Te muzejske edicije prvenstveno se ...odnose na kataloge stalnih izložaba ili pojedine muzejske zbirke u stalnom postavu, vodiče kroz cijeli ili dio muzejskoga postava kao i na različite informativne brošure i letke o stalnom postavu. Nastojalo se ukazati na njihovu svrhovitost i namjenu u komuniciranju izloženih muzejskih sadržaja. Dani su rezultati istraživanja edicija stalnih muzejskih postava u izdanju hrvatskih muzeja i galerija u razdoblju od 2000. do 2022. godine. Ukazano je na njihov broj, vrste, medij i ciljanu publiku kojoj su namijenjene. U zaključnom dijelu nastojalo se ukazati na uočene nedostatke, ali i vrsna ostvarenja kao doprinos unapređenju izdavačke politike muzeja.
