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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS)—such as Fairtrade International and the Forest Stewardship Council—aim to improve sustainability in global supply chains by setting high social and environmental standards and certifying businesses that adopt them.
Elizabeth A. Bennett
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across 124 jurisdictions, formal legal architecture for AI‐related rights protection—including data protection legislation, independent oversight authorities, and sanctioning powers—is substantially more developed than the institutional conditions that make those rights operationally enforceable in practice.
Carlos García‐Llorente +1 more
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The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We report on the wellbeing of the young in twenty‐eight countries located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia including fifteen post‐Soviet countries. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people, which characterizes Western Europe and English‐speaking advanced economies. The mental health of the
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
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The Timing of Trade Adjustment: Evidence From Financial and Labor Frictions
Review of International Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how financial development and labor‐market rigidity in exporting countries shape the timing of trade adjustment following economic integration agreements (EIAs), and how the two interact. Using a piecewise linear trend specification, the analysis traces how export adjustment evolves around agreement entry and shows that ...
Jae Wook Jung
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Fluoride Toothpaste Market Surveillance in the Dominican Republic: Quality Gaps and Policy Implications. [PDF]
Oral Health Prev DentAbreu-Placeres N +7 more
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Technical Change Through Global Value Chains: Evidence From Firms Worldwide
The World Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on firms' innovation, productivity, and other indicators of technical change. Our dataset encompasses heterogeneous firms from 144 countries at different income levels over the period 2006–2025.
Ivan Ledezma +1 more
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Psychometric properties of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in the Dominican Republic. [PDF]
BMC PsycholGarcía-Batista ZE +7 more
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Selection Bias in Aid Effectiveness: Evidence From Aid for Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
The World Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether Aid for Trade promotes foreign direct investment using bilateral panel data over 2005–2019. Conventional estimators show mixed results across donors, with no significant effects for Japanese aid. To address potential selection bias, we employ a Bartik‐style instrumental variable exploiting donor sectoral ...
Wonjun Choi
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A New Genus and Species of Cochliopidae Tryon, 1866 (Truncatelloidea) from the Dominican Republic. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Falniowski A, Jaszczyńska A, Hofman S.
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The World Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a state‐of‐the‐art structural gravity model, we investigate the impact of various (post‐)colonial cocoa trading arrangements on the cocoa trade between developing cocoa producer countries and rich industrial cocoa consumer nations in the time period 1951–1999. We find that in particular the trading arrangements of the European (Economic)
John Brown +2 more
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