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Horizontal Inequality: Two Types of Trap

open access: yesJournal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2009
Numerous issues arise in defining inequality: Inequality among whom? Inequality of what? And inequality over what time period?
openaire   +2 more sources

Environmental Regulation at the Crossroads: A Review of Catalysts and Barriers in Circular Economy Transitions

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing resource pressures, environmental regulation plays a critical role in enabling the transition to a circular economy (CE). This study conducts a systematic literature review to synthesize how different regulatory approaches—command‐and‐control, market‐based, voluntary, and reflexive—affect CE transitions across economic and ...
Li Yuan
wiley   +1 more source

Remedying Horizontal Inequality: The Changing Impact of Reform in Northern Ireland

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Northern Ireland is a case that lets us explore how people respond when deep‐set horizontal inequality is substantively reduced. This article focusses on the reform of horizontal inequality in the cultural sphere and argues that it is likely to be ...
Jennifer Todd
doaj   +1 more source

Free and universal, but unequal utilization of primary health care in the rural and urban areas of Mongolia

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2017
Background The entire population of Mongolia has free access to primary health care, which is fully funded by the government. It is provided by family health centers in urban settings.
Javkhlanbayar Dorjdagva   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Sustainability Orientation and Sustainability Challenges in SME Responses to Institutional Support

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT SMEs receive increasing institutional support to embed sustainability, yet they vary widely in their ability to translate such support into practice. This study addresses this gap by examining the internal cognitive and strategic mechanism (sustainability orientation) through which managers interpret institutional support and the contextual ...
Michael Zisuh Ngoasong   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of inequality of gross added value of conventional and organic farms in selected EU countries

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013
The paper deals with the differentiation of gross added value of farms with a focus on mixed production from twelve selected European Union countries in view of the manner of farming.
Gabriela Trnková, Zdeňka Malá
doaj   +1 more source

Horizontal Inequality in Rationing by Waiting Lists

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Services, 2014
The objective of this article was to investigate the existence of horizontal inequality in access to care for six categories of elective surgery in a publicly funded system, when care is rationed through waiting lists. Administrative waiting time data on all elective surgeries (n = 4,634) performed in östergötland, Sweden, in 2007 were linked to ...
Tinghög, Gustav   +3 more
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Optimization of Lithium‐Ion Battery Circular Economy in Electric Vehicles in Sustainable Supply Chain

open access: yesBattery Energy, Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2025.
Lithium batteries constitute a pivotal component in electric vehicles (EVs) owing to their rechargeability and high‐power output capabilities. ABSTRACT Lithium batteries constitute a pivotal component in electric vehicles (EVs) owing to their rechargeability and high‐power output capabilities.
Mohsen Alizadeh Afroozi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Views of democracy and peace” inequality, minorities and radical democracy [PDF]

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2012
Democracy is a moral and practical system conveying living proximity, including definition of love-AGAPE, conflict, inequality, power. First we highlight “what it is” love and “what it is” power.
TizianoTelleschi
doaj  

Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Development Studies, 2017
This article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and, if so, how. It argues that legal empowerment has modest potential to reduce these inequalities. Nevertheless, there are risks that legal empowerment might contribute to a strengthening of group identities, reduction of social cohesion ...
openaire   +4 more sources

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