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True Multilateral Indexes for International Comparisons of Purchasing Power and Real Income [PDF]

I consider the problem of choosing index numbers of purchasing power and real income for international comparisons. I show that the desirable properties of methods based on the Fisher "Ideal" index do not extend to multilateral comparisons, except when ...
J.P. Neary
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Food plant diversity in a rapidly changing world

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. We describe major trends in how food plant diversity has been changing, note the responses from conservation communities, highlight gaps ...
Colin K. Khoury, Hannes Dempewolf, Alejandro Argumedo, Stef de Haan, Mauricio Diazgranados, Alex C. McAlvay, Alvaro Toledo, Maarten van Zonneveld, Peter Wenzl   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stumbling Forward on Trade: The Doha Round, Free Trade Agreements, and Canada [PDF]

Before continuing a headlong rush to form free trade agreements with partners around the globe, Ottawa should pause to consider the effects of a web of FTAs. Matthew B.
Matthew B. Adler
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Overcoming Barriers and Solutions for Catalysing Private Capital in Climate Adaptation: A Stakeholder‐Informed Agenda for Hong Kong's Intermediary Role in Southeast Asia

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates stakeholder perspectives on mobilising private‐sector finance for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia, emphasising Hong Kong's role as a financial intermediary. Through semi‐structured interviews with diverse stakeholders, including practitioners, policymakers, insurers, and project developers, we employed a grounded ...
Laurence L. Delina, Felice Janice Olivia Boedijanto, Sharon Feliza Ann P. Macagba, Johanne Rei R. Castro, Rainbow Yi Hung Lam   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preparing current and emerging health leaders: An innovative competency-based framework for health diplomacy. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Martinez E, Rosskam E, Aslanyan G, Baines L, Komatsu R, Darabos N, Wong BLH, Viberg N, Hososawa M, Minghui R, Robalo Correia E Silva M, Nordstrom A.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multilateral Trade Liberalisation and FDI: An Analytical Framework for the Implications for Trading Blocs [PDF]

The proliferation of regional integration agreements (RIAs) over the past several years has led to significant changes in the global configuration of trade and investment activity.
Ghazalian, Pascal L., Cardwell, Ryan T.
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How Program‐ and Community‐Led Design Settings Affect Resilience Approaches to Sustainable Development Projects

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development interventions must deal with rapid and novel changes affecting complex social‐ecological systems, calling for design based on a resilience approach. However, limited analytical attention has been paid to the design settings in which such approaches are deployed.
Yiheyis Maru, Deborah O'Connell, Nicola Grigg, Annette Cowie, Million Belay, Alice Ruhweza, Mark Stafford Smith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comment on Understanding PPPs and PPP Based National Accounts [PDF]

The paper discusses the three major problems that Deaton and Heston identify that make it difficult to construct consistent estimates of real output across countries: (i) the choice of a multilateral index number formula; (ii) weak national accounts ...
Diewert, Erwin
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Synthesizing Green Growth From Dynamic Capabilities Perspectives: New Implications for Sustainable Development Policies Among G‐8 Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Holistic approaches to meeting human needs while also protecting environmental resources and securing the ecological capacity needs of future generations are critical for sustainable development. Therefore, it is a strategic priority for firms to develop production and management practices that focus on sustainability at both economic and ...
Şeyma Bozkaya, Stephen Taiwo Onifade
wiley   +1 more source

The Rise of the Southern Economies: Implications for the WTO-Multilateral Trading System [PDF]

The rise of the emerging southern economies ? China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS) ? as both economic and political actors, is having significant and far-reaching impact on the world economy.
Nenci, Silvia
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