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Case Study: The growth and poverty impacts of trade liberalization in Senegal [PDF]
Most empirical studies find relatively small welfare and poverty impacts of trade liberalization, mainly as a result of the static framework generally used, in which welfare gains and poverty impacts result solely from a short term reallocation of ...
Bernard Decaluwé +4 more
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Sustainable 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
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CHILD LABOUR AND TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY [PDF]
The paper analyzes the implications of trade liberalization on the incidence of child labour in a two-sector general equilibrium framework. The supply function of child labour has been derived from the utility maximizing behaviour of the working families.
Manash Ranjan Gupta, Sarbajit Chaudhuri
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa faces persistently high poverty and inequality alongside a highly concentrated economic structure, raising questions about whether merger control, especially public‐interest provisions, can contribute to poverty reduction. However, empirical evidence directly linking merger adjudication outcomes to poverty remains limited.
Nicholas Ngepah +2 more
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FinTech and Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From Brazil
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic interplay between economic growth and environmental sustainability from a FinTech perspective, using Brazil as a case study. While FinTech's contribution to green transformation, sustainable finance, and resource efficiency has gained increasing attention, a notable lack of empirical research remains to assess ...
Kemal Eyuboglu, Umut Uzar
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Gains from Trade: Implications for Labour Market Adjustment and Poverty Reduction in Africa [PDF]
This paper reassesses the gains from trade for sub-Saharan Africa, and draws their implications for labour market adjustment and poverty reduction. It reviews previous studies on multilateral liberalization, focusing on the findings from computable ...
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi, Mold, Andrew
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how green and non‐green goods, energy transition, digitalization, economic growth, and population affect the material footprint of G‐7 countries from 1990 to 2023. Using an extended STIRPAT framework, we show that green and non‐green goods increase material footprint, demonstrating the resource intensity associated with
Sohidul Islam +5 more
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El desarrollo del personal parlamentario chileno, 1834: 1924
Universum, 2011 Este artículo describe y explica el desarrollo del personal legislativo chileno desde 1834 a 1924, para lo cual emplea un enfoque institucional que llama la atención sobre el impacto del contexto político y decisiones organizacionales tempranas.
Iván Mauricio Obando Camino
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What’s on the Table? The Doha Round as of August 2009 [PDF]
The Doha Round is the longest-running trade liberalization negotiation in the postwar era. Despite its longevity, the end is not yet in sight as parties disagree on the depth of liberalization necessary in agriculture and nonagricultural market access ...
Claire Brunel +3 more
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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