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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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Collection Regional Law ReviewThe legal system must adapt to rapidly evolving technologies, balancing human rights protection, particularly privacy and fair trial rights, with efficient crime prevention.
Davor Trlin, Ajla Bašić
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Cultural Values and Government [PDF]
, 2008 Mr. Dellinger Mr. Dellinger originally delivered these remarks for the panel entitled The Role of Government in Defining Our Culture, at the Federalist Society’s 2006 National Lawyers Convention, on Saturday, November 18, 2006, in Washington, D.C ...
Dellinger, Walter E., III
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE) and social entrepreneurship (SE) are increasingly recognised as critical pathways for sustainable development, yet CE research often underplays social inclusion, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs).
Maria L. Granados, Adeyemi Adelekan
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The Unconstitutionality of Consolidated Planning Boards: Interlocal Planning Under New York Law [PDF]
, 2018 This Article will examine the nature and constitutionality of consolidated planning boards in light of the broad powers actually granted them. The issues surrounding the constitutionality of consolidated planning boards begs, yet again, Chief Justice ...
Pirro, Albert J., Jr.
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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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Voluntary Sterilization of Inmates for Reduced Prison Sentences [PDF]
, 2018 In May 2017, a Tennessee judge issued a standing order allowing inmates to receive thirty days’ jail credit in exchange for undergoing a voluntary sterilization procedure.
Adams, Elise B.
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The Stabilization of High‐Nitrogen Systems: 10 Catenated Nitrogen Chain
Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.Improving the understanding of high‐nitrogen materials. ABSTRACT High‐nitrogen materials have attracted intense interest in recent decades due to their unique chemical, physical, and biological properties. Stabilizing high‐nitrogen materials is often challenging as they become more unstable with increasing nitrogen catenation and nitrogen mass ...
Nicholas F. Scherschel +3 more
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Constitutional Issues Arising from the Principal Purpose Test: The Lesson from Poland
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2018 The principal purpose test (PPT) has been chosen by all signatories to the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (MLI) signed in Paris, on 7 June 2017, with a view to meeting the ...
Błażej Kuźniacki
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