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Social Capital, Culture, and Commitment to Sustainability Among Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable development is gaining attention, especially among SMEs in developing countries. This paper examines how social capital mediates the relationship between cultural factors and SMEs' commitment to sustainability. The research focuses on Albanian SMEs using a quantitative approach that includes confirmatory factor analysis and ...
Ina Keçi +2 more
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Equalisation and Fiscal Competition [PDF]
The paper’s aim is to link two different issues: equalization and fiscal competition. In the model there are two regions: the first one has rich citizens and the other one has poor citizens.
Rizzo, Leonzio
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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Founders' pre‐entry knowledge and the heterogeneous returns to accelerator participation
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary While startup accelerators often benefit founders and their ventures, these gains may not be uniform. We examine how founders' pre‐entry knowledge—the cumulative education, industry experience, and entrepreneurial exposure that teams acquire prior to launching their startups—shapes the heterogeneous returns to accelerator ...
Melody H. Chang, Valentina A. Assenova
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Fiscal Decentralization and Disparity of Access to Primary Education in Indonesia
Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan: Kajian Masalah Ekonomi dan Pembangunan, 2013 In education, one crusial issue of development is the disparity of primary education access. Using 440 regions database from 2005-2009, this study is aim to analize the impact of fiscal decentralization in reducing the enrolement of primary education in ...
Shinta Doriza +2 more
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Federalism, Freedom of Movement, and Fiscal Equalization [PDF]
In this paper, we take up the question why a group of sovereign countries is willing to form a federation even if residents of the high-income region suspect potential immigrants to be net beneficiaries of the tax and transfer system.
Traub, Stefan
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Linkages between genome size (GS) and phenology underscore the diversification of functional traits, which are indicative of life‐history and resource acquisition strategies.
Jing Lü +10 more
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"Measuring Fiscal Needs: Japan's Experiences" [PDF]
The Local Allocation Tax (LAT) plays important role in fiscal equalization in Japan. The purpose of this paper is twofold: reviewing the key themes and issues of the LAT; and considering package of reforms designed to revitalize Japan's fiscal ...
Nobuki Mochida
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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The Optimal Taxation Approach to Intergovernmental Grants [PDF]
An optimal tax system equates the marginal cost of public funds across all tax bases. This idea is applied to a federation to derive the optimal unconditional transfers that will promote an optimal allocation of taxation and expenditures among the ...
Dahlby, Bev
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