Water, Sanitation and Health: The World Bank's Financing of Sustainable Development Goal 6
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The World Bank has an explicit commitment to financing projects aimed at ensuring access to drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6), given their implications for countries' development. The objective of this study is to analyse its performance over the past decades, in order to understand the evolution of the allocated amount and the ...
Cristina Martínez‐Gómez +2 more
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Gini coefficient decomposition-based and mortality-rate-difference-based description of mortality causes in the Chinese population from 1991 to 2019: a retrospective cross-sectional surveillance study. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2022 Ai F, Wan X.
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A note on the decomposition of the coefficient of variation squared: comparing entropy and Dagum's methods [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to propose a new decomposition of the coefficient of variation squared. The approach is similar to the Dagum's method when decomposing the Gini index.
Celestin Chameni Nembua
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Only 17% of Sustainable Development Goal indicators are globally on track, yet the structural conditions explaining this failure remain inadequately theorised for fossil‐fuel‐dependent economies. This study develops and empirically tests a four‐layer loop framework of Technology, Well‐being, Social Equity, and Sustainability closing through ...
Sameh W. H. Al‐Muqdadi +9 more
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Just Transition in Europe: A Regional Analysis of Environmental Inequality
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Green Deal and the just‐transition agenda promise that no person and no place will be left behind, yet the regional distribution of multi‐impact, emission‐based environmental burdens remains insufficiently understood across Europe.
Iñaki Sasia, Gorka Bueno, Iker Etxano
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When Norms Meet Markets: Environmental Governance and Digital Fast‐Fashion Platforms in Brazil
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental governance increasingly relies on consumer‐based mechanisms that assume that sustainability awareness translates into purchasing behaviour. This article investigates whether such mechanisms remain effective when consumption is organised through transnational digital platforms in contexts characterised by socioeconomic inequality.
Giovana Santa Rosa Lana +1 more
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GDP and beyond: an implementation of welfare considerations to the distribution of earnings in Italy [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to implement distributional considerations in comparing the economic well-being of individuals over time and living in different regions in Italy.
Paolo Liberati, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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Integrating multimodal data and machine learning for entrepreneurship research
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Extant research in neuroscience suggests that human perception is multimodal in nature—we model the world integrating diverse data sources such as sound, images, taste, and smell. Working in a dynamic environment, entrepreneurs are expected to draw on multimodal inputs in their decision making.
Yash Raj Shrestha, Vivianna Fang He
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Local Eviction Moratoria and the Spread of COVID‐19
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At different stages during the initial onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, various US states and local municipalities enacted eviction moratoria. One of the main aims of these moratoria was to slow the spread of COVID‐19 infections. We deploy a semiparametric difference‐in‐differences approach with an event study specification to examine whether ...
Julia Hatamyar, Christopher F. Parmeter
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Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis +1 more
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