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The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local government finance in Ireland: The four pillars of fiscal decentralisation

Administration
This article outlines Ireland’s system of local government finance using a conceptual framework drawn from the fiscal federalism and municipal finance literature.
Turley Gerard
doaj   +1 more source

Rural America's fiscal challenge [PDF]

Fiscal challenges at state and local governments are a potential threat to the economic recovery in rural America. Rural communities depend heavily on intergovernmental transfers from the states to provide local services. Many people in rural communities
Alison Felix, Jason Henderson
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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local Public Good Provision, Municipal Consolidation, and National Transfers [PDF]

We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a region comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighboring district, there is ...
Klaas Staal, Robert Dur
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Forgoing Nuclear: Nuclear Power Plant Closures and Carbon Emissions in the United States

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of nuclear power plant decommissioning on electricity generation and carbon emissions in the United States. Using data on nuclear reactor closures in the United States between 1993 and 2022 and data on state‐level carbon emissions and electricity generation from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), this ...
Luke Petach
wiley   +1 more source

'Follow the cattle': a joint cross-border trachoma MDA perspective. [PDF]

Int Health, 2023
Baayenda G, Opon R, Waititu T, Kabona G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Exerting local tax effort or lobbying for central transfers?: Evidence from Argentina [PDF]

In many countries fiscal decentralization characterizes the relationship among different levels of government. In those countries, local authorities have the prerogative to tax their constituencies.
Martin Besfamille, Pablo Sanguinetti
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AI as a Strategic Driver in Foreign Direct Investment Flows: Evidence of OECD Countries

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how AI‐related capabilities and institutional signals shape foreign direct investment (FDI) inward and outward flows in OECD countries. Drawing on Dunning's OLI paradigm and North's Institutional Theory, the paper investigates whether AI Patent Grants, Newly Funded AI Firms and Mentions of AI in Legislative Proceedings ...
Dafni Grigoriadi
wiley   +1 more source

Perspective directions of improvement of management of intergovernmental fiscal relations in Ukraine on the example of the developed countries of the world

Економіка, Eкологія, Cоціум, 2018
Introduction. In any state, due to the existence of an administrative-territorial division, there are relations between public authorities of different levels in the budgetary sphere.
Viktoriia Butenko
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