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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

The medium and long term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d Ivoire A dynamic microsimulation study [PDF]

open access: yes
I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d'Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in ...
Michael Grimm
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Effects of Green Finance on Economic Growth and Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: A Panel Cointegration Analysis

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This empirical study examines the impact of green finance on economic growth and renewable energy in a group of 76 developing nations in 2010–2019. Results from a cointegration analysis, vector error correction model, and Granger causality test confirm a cointegrating relationship between green finance, renewable energy, economic growth, and ...
Xuan‐Hoa Nghiem   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tax Planning Under Pressure: The Impact of Carbon Emissions Management Post‐Paris Agreement

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine how the Paris Agreement affects corporate tax planning across a global data set. We find that emissions‐reducing firms are associated with higher levels of tax planning than nonemissions‐reducing firms. The effect is stronger for firms facing tighter cost pass‐through constraints, such as operating in more competitive markets, with ...
Aonan (Sistine) Sun   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global habitat suitability and invasion risk of melon thrips

open access: yesAgricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Habitat suitability of Thrips palmi worldwide was predicted using the MaxEnt model. Precipitation of the driest month, precipitation of the wettest month and annual mean temperature were identified as the key climatic drivers influencing its distribution.
Owusu Fordjour Aidoo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
wiley   +1 more source

Reciprocal Tariffs and Systemic Trade Losses: Evidence From Korea, Japan, and the EU

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The resurgence of U.S. protectionism, the proposal of universal reciprocal tariffs targeting major trading partners, poses systemic risks to global trade that existing bilateral analyses have not fully captured. This paper examines the economic consequences of U.S.
Noori Park, Chang Hwan Choi
wiley   +1 more source

The link between colorfulness and extinction risk across the world's passerine birds

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Many of the functional traits that mediate extinction risk across the range of biodiversity relate indirectly to a species’ ability to persist in a changing world, yet certain traits such as coloration directly affect human interactions with wildlife.
Montague H. C. Neate‐Clegg   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using the capabilities approach to achieve people‐centered conservation

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Top‐down interventions carried out by state and nonstate institutions to conserve biodiversity and improve the lives of forest‐proximate people (FPP) in the Global South tend to reflect economistic understandings of human well‐being. More progressive and people‐centered conservation projects are guided by normative visions of how the world ...
Arthur Rodrigues   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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