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Challenges and opportunities of human resource management activities for neglected tropical diseases in Liberia

SSM - Health Systems
People affected by skin neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are best cared for by a motivated, well-directed, competent and well-resourced health workforce. There is limited evidence about performance management for health workforce relating to NTD tasks.
Wede Seekey, Rosalind McCollum, Laura Dean, Hannah Berrian, Jerry Kollie, John S. Smith, Zeela Zaizay, Karsor Kollie, Emerson Rogers, Maneesh Phillip, Colleen Parker, Sally Theobald, Joanna Raven   +12 more
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Marital Dissolution, Repartnering, and the Realization of Fertility Desires in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Women who experience union disruption in sub‐Saharan Africa tend to have lower fertility than those in stable unions. It remains unclear, however, whether this pattern reflects lower fertility desires, constrained opportunities to achieve desired fertility, or both.
Ben Malinga John, Sara Yeatman
wiley   +1 more source

The Construction of Compliance with the European Union Deforestation Regulation in Global Coffee Value Chains

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obliges the importers and users of seven agricultural commodities to achieve supply chain traceability and prevent deforestation‐linked products from entering the EU market. This paper investigates how companies and producing countries in the coffee sector prepared for EUDR compliance by ...
Janina Grabs
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt, Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar, Rebecca Endtricht, Lorena Rivas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collective Corporate Power and the International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The importance of international shipping in economic development, as well as its intersection with international security, environmental protection and other fields of global governance, has encouraged much interest in the rule‐making processes that govern the sector.
Alex Gould
wiley   +1 more source

Using Celebrity to Advance Equality

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Without Enforcing: Foundational Legal Infrastructure and the Capacity–Justiciability Gap in AI Rights Protection

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across 124 jurisdictions, formal legal architecture for AI‐related rights protection—including data protection legislation, independent oversight authorities, and sanctioning powers—is substantially more developed than the institutional conditions that make those rights operationally enforceable in practice.
Carlos García‐Llorente, Ignacio Olmeda   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Remittances, Human Capital, and Industrialization in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrialization remains a crucial strategy for structural transformation in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), yet progress has been hindered by persistent constraints. This paper evaluates the effects of remittances and human capital on industrialization across 35 SSA countries over the period 2010–2021.
Joshua Adeyemi Afolabi, Theophilus Oluyemi Adeosun   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plant biodiversity, vegetation structure and provisioning services in rainforest, traditional and industrial oil palm cultivation systems in Liberia, West Africa

Plants, People, Planet
Societal Impact Statement Oil palm is native to the west African forest, where industrial production is expanding. We assessed differences in plant biodiversity, vegetation structure and provisioning services across 54 forest, community agriculture and ...
Cicely A. M. Marshall, Marshall M. Guahn, Tiecanna Jones, Morris T. Jah, Peter M. Hadfield, Ari Saputra, Rudy Widodo, Benedictus Freeman, William Draper, Jean‐Pierre Caliman, Edgar C. Turner, Michael D. Pashkevich   +11 more
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Deteriorating Mental Well‐Being of the Young in the UK

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using several data sets for the UK we track rising perceptions of mental well‐being among the working‐age population in the UK. The trend is apparent among all age groups and for men and women, but it is most pronounced among the young, and especially young women aged under 25.
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson, David N. F. Bell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source