Active Purchasing: Empirical Insights From the Dutch Healthcare System and Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries Comment on "Measuring Active Purchasing in Healthcare: Analysing Reallocations of Funds Between Providers to Evaluate Purchasing Systems Performance in the Netherlands". [PDF]
Hou X, Su Y.
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Socioenvironmental disasters and the dialectics of overdose mortality. [PDF]
Friedman SR +8 more
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Fair Markets and Resilient Supply Chains: Designing Sustainable Intermediation for Rural Communities
ABSTRACT Agriculture in Ecuador's communes faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges, intensified by supply chains dominated by traditional intermediaries. The lack of context‐specific sustainability studies further increases the vulnerability of smallholders.
Jacqueline del Rocío Bacilio Bejeguen +3 more
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Reexamining Korea's successful forest restoration through the revised PDCA framework. [PDF]
Park H, Han H, Kim D, Kim S.
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between financial inclusion, institutional quality, and female labor force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa over the period 1990–2023. Using panel data for 43 countries and employing OLS, FGLS, and dynamic GMM estimators, the analysis examines whether access to financial institutions and financial markets ...
Joshua Chukwuma Onwe +3 more
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Domestic resources for surgical care financing: a descriptive analysis of global health expenditure trends and illustrative case studies on fiscal mechanisms in LMICs. [PDF]
Reddy R +8 more
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ABSTRACT Given the complexity of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligning corporate sustainability with them can be challenging. Drawing on systems thinking, this study examines how the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) align with the SDGs and bridge macro‐level global goals with firm‐level metrics.
Chonlawan Thammaraksa +3 more
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Human rights and the olympics: from an ideological paradox to a new anti-corruption legacy. [PDF]
Chatziefstathiou D, Simon Rofe J.
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ABSTRACT This study examines the validity of the Load Capacity Curve (LCC) hypothesis and assesses the environmental implications of emerging trade structures, focusing on BioTrade, digital trade, and plastic waste trade. Using a balanced panel of 36 OECD countries from 2011 to 2023, the analysis investigates how income dynamics and trade composition ...
Ugur Korkut Pata +2 more
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