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The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change in East Asia, NBER-EASE Volume 19 [PDF]
Douglas Almond +3 more
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North Korea on the Precipice of Famine [PDF]
North Korea is on the brink of famine. The aggregate food picture appears worse than at any time since the famine of the 1990s. The margin of error between required grain and available supply is now less than 100,000 metric tons.
Erik Weeks +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The application of firm sustainability practices (FSP) in ethnic minority–owned small and medium–sized enterprises (ESMEs) has received significantly less scholarly focus, making ESME FSP an emerging academic field. This study aims to explore the factors influencing ethnic minority–owned SMEs involved in FSP and identify the factors hindering ...
Nurul Islam +2 more
wiley +1 more source
From Ecosystem Threats to Balance Sheets: Biodiversity Risks Exposure and Corporate Cash Policies
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how firms strategically respond to biodiversity risk by examining their cash holding decisions. Using firm‐level data from China, we find that firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure significantly increases corporate cash holdings.
Jing Hao +4 more
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Reform from Below: Behavioral and Institutional Change in North Korea [PDF]
The state is often conceptualized as playing an enabling role in a country's economic development--providing public goods, such as the legal protection of property rights, while the political economy of reform is conceived in terms of bargaining over ...
Marcus Noland, Stephan Haggard
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How Supply Networks Influence Sustainable Innovation: Evidence From Ghana's Public Works Procurement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent environmental and sustainability standards in procurement increase short‐term production and operational costs to suppliers, which are often recouped by charging price premiums for innovative solutions. However, public buyers are less likely to pay such price premiums, resulting in a disincentive among suppliers to bid for innovation ...
Peter Adjei‐Bamfo +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Exposure to Chinese Famine in Fetal Life and the Risk of Dysglycemiain Adulthood. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Zhang Y +10 more
europepmc +1 more source
A Natural Resource‐Based View of Circular Economy Practices in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pharmaceutical industry is facing escalating environmental sustainability issues including gaseous emissions, waste generation, and excessive consumption of energy and non‐renewable materials. Nevertheless, the adoption of sustainable business models such as the circular economy (CE) is still in its infancy in this sector due to complex ...
Amna Farrukh, Muhammad Sohaib Sajjad
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In utero exposure to the Great Chinese Famine and risk of intracerebral hemorrhage in midlife. [PDF]
Neurology, 2020 Li Y +9 more
europepmc +1 more source