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Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
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Economic Security, Regional Reconfiguration, and Local Governance: The Case of TSMC's Investment in Kumamoto

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how institutional arrangements associated with economic security reshape semiconductor production in East Asia through the case of TSMC's investment in Kumamoto, Japan. It argues that economic security operates not primarily through direct administrative control, but by redefining acceptable investment risks, narrowing ...
Yumeng Wang
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Effects of landscape context on avian specialist response to increased surface temperature in protected areas

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract Human development is a driver of global change and a major threat to biodiversity. Protected areas maintain and support biodiversity, but outside stressors, such as climate change and land use change, can negatively influence natural resources within protected areas.
Leah J. Rudge, Angela M. Holland, W. Gregory Shriver   +2 more
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Medición y análisis de un modelo para la determinación del costo de capital de las pymes del subsector de confección en Bogotá [PDF]

, 2012
En síntesis, para los encargados de la gestión financiera en empresas del sector de la confección en Bogotá, existe un problema que tiene que ver con el desconocimiento de un modelo que les permita calcular el costo del capital que requieren para su ...
Cruz Castro, Carlos Hernán
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Calibration of the species threat abatement and restoration metric's threat abatement component in a Costa Rican landscape

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract Achieving global conservation policy goals requires the ability to set and measure progress toward science‐based targets for biodiversity. The species threat abatement and restoration (STAR) metric was developed to enable actors to set science‐based targets for species.
Louise Mair, Thomas M. Brooks, Randall R. Jimenez, Nicholas B. W. Macfarlance, Tony Nello, Antonin Vergez, Leon Bennun, Florence Curet, Annie Dakmejian, Edward Ellis, Melibea Gallo, Philip J. K. McGowan, Francesca A. Ridley, Alex Ross, Claudine Sierra, Thomas Starnes, Joseph A. Turner, Frank Hawkins   +17 more
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El efecto de los impuestos sobre el costo de capital: estudio de un caso en colombia –almacenes éxito s.a. periodo 2006 -2010 [PDF]

, 2011
El sistema tributario colombiano es complejo ya que cuenta con una diversidad de tratamientos especiales. Dada esta diversidad y desde la perspectiva de la gestión financiera, algunas reformas pueden aportar al incremento de los flujos de caja de las ...
Baez Roa, Maria del Pilar
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El costo promedio ponderado de capital (wacc) para los cálculos de valuación de empresas: una respuesta

Cuadernos Latinoamericanos de Administración, 2016
Trabajo de investigaciónLlano-Ferro (2009) propone una solución para evitar “errores significativos” cuando el Costo Promedio Ponderado de Capital (WACC) “obtenido por la fórmula general conduce a errores significativos en el valor presente neto de los ...
Ignacio Vélez Pareja
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Riesgo de Crédito, Costo del Capital y Apalancamiento Financiero Excesivo

Ecos de Economía, 2020
Convencionalmente, los métodos de valoración de empresas no suelen incorporar explícitamente los efectos que podrían tener los probables costos de quiebra de la firma sobre el costo del capital. Hacer esto introduce una prueba de estrés en la estimación de la tasa de descuento, que puede ser muy relevante para la valoración justa de empresas ...
Mejía-Kambourova, David, Gómez-Cardeño, Laura, Gutiérrez-Betancur, Juan Carlos   +2 more
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Hurdles to overcome to achieve biostimulant‐driven, low chemical input crop production

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 783-791, May 2026.
Crop production requires considerable chemical inputs that result in significant greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental costs. Biostimulants are natural agents, such as microorganisms or seaweed, applied to plants and soil to stimulate plant growth and reduce chemical inputs. Biostimulant use is rapidly increasing globally, but hurdles remain,
Wolfram Buss, Katharina Belt, Zaw Hein, Arumdriya Putri, Shuoyang Zhu, Hana Suwandari, Alison R. Bentley   +6 more
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Using miniaturized laboratory equipment and DNA barcoding to improve conservation genetics training and identify illegally traded species

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the largest global illegal activities, and it negatively affects biodiversity and sustainable development worldwide. DNA barcoding coupled with high‐throughput sequencing (i.e., metabarcoding) is useful in identifying taxa affected by IWT and has been used routinely for decades.
Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Ivo Colmonero‐Costeira, Saidil Lamine Djaló, Tomás Camará, Rui M. Sá, Tania Minhós, Angelika Kiebler, Martin Grethlein, Netta Pikkarainen, Stefan Prost   +9 more
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