Over 70 % of China's timber product imports are supplied by countries in the Asia Pacific region, and China is the dominant forest product market for many of these countries. Unsustainable harvesting practices, illegal logging, and negative impacts on community livelihoods plague many of these su...
Katsigris, E.
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Bull, G.Q.
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White, A.
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Barr, C.
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Barney, K.
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Bun, Y.
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Kahrl, F.
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King, T.
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Lankin, A.
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Lebedev, A.
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Shearman, P.
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Sheingauz, A.
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Yufang Su
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Weyerhaeuser, H.
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[The China forest products trade: overview of Asia-Pacific supplying countries, impacts and implications]
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The China forest products trade: overview of Asia-Pacific supplying countries, impacts and implications
The Chinese government is aggressively promoting development of a domestic wood pulp industry, integrated with a plantation-based fiber supply and downstream paper production. It is doing so by providing discounted loans from state banks, fiscal incentives, and capital subsidies for establishment...
Barr, C.
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Cossalter, C.
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[China's development of a plantation-based wood pulp industry: government policies, financial incentives, and investment trends]
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China's development of a plantation-based wood pulp industry: government policies, financial incentives, and investment trends
This study summarizes recent trends in China's paper and paperboard sector and projects supply and demand for each of the major grades through 2010. Baseline projections suggest that China's aggregate demand will grow from 48.0 million tonnes in 2003 to 68.5 million tonnes per year in 2010. With ...
He, D.
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Barr, C.
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[China's pulp and paper sector: an analysis of supply-demand and medium term projections]
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China's pulp and paper sector: an analysis of supply-demand and medium term projections
Bank Mandiri, the largest bank in Indonesia, was the latest government institution to provide financial subsidies to Indonesian forestry conglomerates by writing off major part of their debts. Before Bank Mandiri, IBRA, under the pressure by the IMF for the “quick sales” of its assets, had writte...
Barr, C.
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Setiono, B.
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[Writing off Indonesia’s forestry debt: how the IMF, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency and Bank Mandiri are financing forest destruction]
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Writing off Indonesia’s forestry debt: how the IMF, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency and Bank Mandiri are financing forest destruction