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Climate Vulnerability and Sovereign ESG Performance: The Conditioning Roles of Adaptation Innovation, Institutional Quality and Robot Adoption

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The intensification of physical climate risk presents a critical question for global sustainability governance: does exposure to climate hazards strengthen or weaken a country's environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance? This study investigates the relationship between climate vulnerability and country‐level ESG performance across
Alanoud Al‐Maadid   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Value-Added Tax Revenue Transfers in Municipalities of Emerging Economies

open access: yesEconomies
This paper aims to test the hypothesis of the existence of significant tax competition between communes, which mainly concerns the share of value-added tax (VAT) proceeds, by exploring the system for allocating intergovernmental transfers in Morocco and ...
Brahim Abidar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intergovernmental Transfers and Environmental Pollution

open access: yes, 2022
Abstract We exploit the dramatic change in intergovernmental transfers after the tax-sharing reform in China to identify the causal effect of intergovernmental transfers on environmental pollution. Applying the two-stage least squares method to China’s county-level data, we find that a 1% increase in the annual change in intergovernmental ...
Bing Ye, Qianwen Cao
openaire   +1 more source

Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local Tax Reforms and Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers Policy: The Relevance of Governance Forum

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Finance, 2020
This study invokes fiscal federalism literature by examining tax reformsintergovernmental fiscal transfers policy relationship in local government. Additionally, it investigates whether a governance forum mediates that association.
Paul Onyango-Delewa
doaj   +1 more source

Use of socio-economic criteria for intergovernmental transfers: The case of India. [PDF]

open access: yes
Intergovernmental fiscal ...
Sen, Tapas K., Trebesch, Christoph
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Rock mechanical properties under reconstructed deep in situ thermo–hydro–mechanical conditions: Implications for CO₂‐related injection scenarios

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
The graphical abstract illustrates a reconstructed in situ thermo‐hydro‐mechanical (THM) framework in which porosity serves as the central variable linking stress, pore pressure, and temperature to evolving mechanical properties of rocks. Under burial conditions, in situ stress, pore pressure, and temperature jointly govern volumetric strain and ...
Mingyuan Lu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

National or political cake? The political economy of intergovernmental transfers in Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of Economic Geography, 2018
Rule-based intergovernmental transfers are often presented as the panacea to avoid the manipulation of transfers for political motives. We question that assertion in the case of Nigeria, where these transfers are highly dependent on natural resources ...
Jean-François Maystadt   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding Malaysian State Governments Fiscal Behavior: The Role of Intergovernmental Transfers [PDF]

open access: yes
As of late, several state governments in Malaysia have been identified as having serious difficulty in meeting their financial needs, to the extent of the government being qualified as on the verge of bankruptcy.
Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah   +1 more
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