Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A recent raft of due diligence regulation (DDR) addressing social and environmental conditions in global value chains (GVCs) has spread across the UK and Europe. An emerging literature on DDR highlights the politics of its formation. Yet, we know little about how existing sustainability governance along GVCs interacts with DDR or the wider ...
Matthew Alford +4 more
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The reduction of horizontal inequity in unmet refractive error: The Shahroud Eye Cohort Study, 2009-2014. [PDF]
J Curr Ophthalmol, 2019 Raznahan M +4 more
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Geographic Equity in Hospital Utilization: Canadian Evidence Using a Concentration-Index Approach [PDF]
Distance-related geographic barriers challenge the ability of health systems to allocate health care resources equitably according to need. The paper adapts the concentration-index approach, commonly used for measuring income-related equity, to assess ...
Jeremiah Hurley +3 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obliges the importers and users of seven agricultural commodities to achieve supply chain traceability and prevent deforestation‐linked products from entering the EU market. This paper investigates how companies and producing countries in the coffee sector prepared for EUDR compliance by ...
Janina Grabs
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An Index of Inequality: With Applications to Horizontal Equity and Social Mobility [PDF]
An index of Inequality is constructed which decomposes into two components, corresponding to vertical and "horizontal" equity respectively. Horizontal equity Is defined in terms of changes in the ordering of a distribution.
Mervyn A. King
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New Labor Governance? The German Supply Chain Act and National Governance Mechanisms in Brazil
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Due diligence laws respond to labor governance challenges and to a lack of public governance addressing human rights violations in Global Value Chains. Despite ongoing contestation, the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act seeks to hold German‐based firms accountable for human rights risks in their supply chains.
Helena Gräf
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Did expansion of health insurance coverage reduce horizontal inequity in healthcare finance? A decomposition analysis for China. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Wang Z +5 more
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Female Education and Child Marriage
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
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Examining horizontal inequity and social determinants of inequality in facility delivery services in three South Asian countries. [PDF]
J Glob Health, 2018 Huda TM, Hayes A, Dibley MJ.
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Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns*
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.The ways in which public officials, citizens, and social institutions are held accountable for social problems, including police‐involved killings in the United States, reflect changing attributions of responsibility. Although news reports now rely less on official police narratives and less often stereotype police as heroes and victims as villains ...
Deborah A. Potter
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