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Inclusive Growth in Africa: Exploring Contingencies and Thresholds of Financial Development and the Digital Economy

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the persistent inequalities and economic disparities, the quest for inclusive growth has become more critical. Nevertheless, a substantial knowledge gap exists regarding the role of the digital economy and financial development in inclusive growth.
Sylvester Senyo Horvey, Jones Odei‐Mensah   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal Reform in Contemporary Japan [PDF]

, 2006
In this chapter I offer a preliminary assessment of a quickly moving target—legal reform and its impact on rights in Japan. Although a broad consensus has emerged among interested parties that at least some degree of reform is desirable, there is ...
Feldman, Eric
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Intention to create legal relations and the reform of contract law: A conservative approach in the modern global era [PDF]

, 2013
This paper is partially to refute the submissions by Gulati’s article recently published on Beijing Law Review which proposes abandoning the requirement of proving intention to create legal relations for the formation of an enforceable contract.
Liao, Zhixiong (Leo), Liao, Zhixiong
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How Firms Construct Climate Identities in New Zealand: Resolving the Tensions Between Economic Imperatives and Climate Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on legitimacy theory, the aim of this study is to answer the research question: ‘How does corporate climate identity construction enable firms to make legitimacy claims while managing tensions between the economic imperatives and climate goals?’ The research design relies on a discourse analysis of 252 corporate reports published ...
Hang Pham
wiley   +1 more source

Changing practices, not just rules: Rethinking the institutionalisation of deliberative engagement

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract When Victoria introduced legislation requiring all 79 councils to adopt deliberative engagement, 92% continued practices the legislation had just removed. This paradox reveals a fundamental challenge in embedding democratic innovations within existing systems of government: legislation signals commitment but cannot disrupt entrenched ...
Emanuela Savini
wiley   +1 more source

Legal profession reform in Queensland

, 2004
At last, reform has begun in the legal profession in Queensland. The Legal Profession Act 2004 (Qld) ('the Act') came into force on I July 2004, the second of three promised steps in reorganising and modernising the regulation of the profession.
Haller, Linda, Mortensen, Reid
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An Action Plan for the Restructuring and Rationalization of the National Intercity Rail Passanger System [PDF]

, 2002
Final report of the Amtrak Reform Council describing their activities and findings regarding the Council's proposed action plan for restructuring the national intercity rail passenger system in the face of Amtrak's failure to achieve operational self ...
Amtrak Reform Council
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

The Independent Football Regulator: An Idea Whose Time Had Come?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Major public policy change is both driven and constrained by consensus and dissensus. As J. W. Kingdon observed, when old agreements falter, new alliances can be built, ‘sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests’. We show how a peculiar set of circumstances following the Covid pandemic brought together an unusual ...
Geoff Walters, Sean Hamil, Danny Fitzpatrick   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source