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The new pensions in Kazakhstan : challenges in making the transition [PDF]

open access: yes
In June of 1997 Kazakhstan embarked on a dramatic reform of its pension system, replacing the inherited pay as you go regime with one based entirely on fully funded individual accounts.
Vilamovska, Anna-Marie   +2 more
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Sustainable Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Markets: The Institutional Drivers of Firms' Climate Action

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how home‐ and host‐country institutions jointly shape the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on firms' climate action commitments (CAC) in emerging markets. Drawing on New Institutional Economics and Varieties of Capitalism, we conceptualize FDI as a mechanism of institutional transmission through which multinational
Jose Pla‐Barber, David Tobón‐Orozco
wiley   +1 more source

Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon VIX, Climate Risk and Financial Stability New Evidence From Developing Countries

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effects of the carbon VIX and climate risk on financial stability through the banking Z‐score in developing economies. Using the Dynamic Panel Threshold Model of 106 developing countries from 2012 to 2022, the results reveal that both carbon VIX and climate risk exert a significant negative influence on banking ...
Alanoud Al‐Maadid   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evoluzione costituzionale del Kazakhstan

open access: yes, 2015
Il Kazakhstan è tra le Repubbliche ex sovietiche dell'Asia centrale quella che ha prevalentemente subito l'attrazione nei confronti della forma di governo della Federazione di Russia con cui ha avviato il progetto di creazione dell'Unione Economica ...
C. Filippini
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Through Social Life Cycle Assessment: A Case Study of Portuguese Forest Wood Supply Chains

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social considerations are often overlooked in efforts to achieve sustainable development, despite being critical for building equitable and resilient global value chains. This study addresses this gap by applying a social life cycle assessment to three key Portuguese forest wood supply chains—uncoated woodfree paper, natural cork stoppers, and
Andreia Santos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Municipal solid wastes management

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2014
Waste utilization problems are of current importance and they are relatedtothe principles of Green Economy and, thus, present one of the most important ecologic factors for improving environmental quality.
K K Temirkhanov, N N Kenzhebayev
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Caught in the Middle: Understanding Perspectives of Business and Economics Teachers in Kazakhstan in the Face of Cultural Change

open access: yes, 2006
This qualitative study examines the impact of cultural change on the perspectives of business and economic teachers in Kazakhstan, a country that has experienced tremendous change since gaining its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Shamblin, Leigh
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Probing the Energy Trilemma Pillars: Do Innovation Pathways Deliver Cleaner and More Equitable Energy Systems?

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Balancing reliable energy supply, equitable access, and environmental sustainability is a central challenge of the global energy transition. This study examines how innovation influences the energy trilemma by shaping energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability across 115 countries from 2011 to 2023.
Kingsley Imandojemu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Kazakh Regions Converge? [PDF]

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Even though Kazakhstan is one of the most successful transition countries in Central Asia it has been neglected in the literature on regional convergence.
Carmen Wieslhuber, Miriam Frey
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