The political economy of public spending on education, inequality, and growth [PDF]
Public provision of education has often been perceived as universal and egalitarian, but in reality it is not. Political pressure typically results in incidence bias in favor of the rich.
Gradstein, Mark
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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve
, 2006 This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality relates to carbon dioxide
BORGHESI, SIMONE
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agribusiness: From Automation to Augmentation in a Global Context
Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Alexis H. Villacis
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Physical Reservoir Computing using a Cellulose Nanofiber Hydrogel for Intelligent Green Electronics
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Cellulose nanofiber (CNF) hydrogel serves as a biodegradable physical reservoir computer capable of electronic input and output. The CNF–water network enables sustainable green electronics that activate upon contact with liquid water, providing a degradable, robust, and field‐deployable computing element suitable for environmentally compatible device ...
Takeshi Kato +3 more
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Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate [PDF]
Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people have shared in the economic gains from globalization.
Ravallion, Martin
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The cost of environmental inequality: Evidence from offsite investment
Borsa Istanbul ReviewThe unequal distribution of resources and unjust utilization of the environment not only imperil the global ecological equilibrium but also undermine the sustainable development of the global economy.
Mengling Zhou, Kangqi Jiang
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Multi‐Stage Social Value Orientation‐Based Lane‐Changing Driving for Autonomous Vehicles
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A multi‐stage SVO framework is developed to dynamically infer the social preferences of surrounding vehicles from human driving data. By combining offline learning, online SVO estimation, temporal intention tracking, and interaction‐aware planning, the framework enables autonomous vehicles to adapt lane‐changing decisions and trajectories to evolving ...
Nongrui Qin +4 more
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LOCAL COMMONS AND CROSS-EFFECTS OF POPULATION AND INEQUALITY ON THE LOCAL PROVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES [PDF]
A farm-level and village level models are discussed and tested empirically using spatial data, for exploring the cross-effects between population density and land inequality in the "tragedy of the commons".
Juan Camilo Cárdenas
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Human mobility-associated ambient PM2.5 differences and inequality in China
Environmental Research LettersAmbient PM _2.5 conditions can differ between origins and destinations during both long-term migration and short-term population mobility, but the magnitude and heterogeneity of these differences remain unclear.
Heming Bai +5 more
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AI‐Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity technologies, and biogerontological ambitions has produced a novel set of philosophical problems that have not yet been adequately addressed within mainstream bioethical discourse. Digital life extension—encompassing AI‐generated avatars, neural data preservation, mind uploading, and
Mirko Daniel Garasic
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