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Tropical Forests and Sustainability: The Role of Multilateral Financing in Latin America
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The challenge of slowing deforestation and degradation in the tropical regions of Latin America requires financing mechanisms (public and private) that can enable actions to preserve and sustainably manage forest integrity. This paper begins by examining the strategy implemented by the World Bank to protect forest cover in tropical countries ...
Ángela Andrea Caviedes Conde +2 more
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Decomposed Multilateral Filtering for Accelerating Filtering with Multiple Guidance Images
SensorsThis paper proposes an efficient algorithm for edge-preserving filtering with multiple guidance images, so-called multilateral filtering. Multimodal signal processing for sensor fusion is increasingly important in image sensing. Edge-preserving filtering
Haruki Nogami +4 more
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International competition law enforcement: different means, one goal? [PDF]
, 2012 This paper addresses one of the intricacies of international competition law enforcement, namely the diversification of legal instruments used for bilateral cooperation.
Demedts, Valerie
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The promotion of clean energy is critical to achieving sustainable development. This study investigates the factors that affect the exports, trade potential, and revealed comparative advantage (RCA) of clean energy products (CEPs) in the emerging Asian economies (EAEs).
Arvind Goswami +2 more
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Smallholder Farmer Development: International Donor Funding Trends [PDF]
, 2010 In order to enable more coordination between these various initiatives, FSG and the Smallholder Coalition have catalogued and analyzed $12 billion in funding from 29 donors representing more than 1,700 smallholder-focused projects active from 2009 ...
Jessica Davies +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth +2 more
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A Club No More - The WTO after Doha [PDF]
Since its inception the GATT, and subsequently the WTO, has been able to operate in a fashion that is more consistent with a club than an inclusive organization that encouraged the active participation of all its members.
Kerr, William A.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how 14 sustainable consumption and production (SCP) factors interact across four service categories—Mass Service, Professional Service, Service Factory, and Service Shop—using interpretive structural modeling (ISM). ISM enables the identification and hierarchical classification of interdependencies among SCP factors in ...
Amanda Duarte Feitosa +4 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) offers strong potential for sustainable development in low‐income regions, yet its enterprises often operate with scarce resources, weak monitoring systems, and limited visibility. These constraints hinder both their capacity to demonstrate contributions to sustainable development (SD) and their own ...
Maria‐del‐Mar Magallón +1 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable debt bond is an emerging instrument aiming at providing companies and governments with extra resources for financing social and environmental policies and attempting to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Regional governments in Spain have issued sustainable bonds in recent years to finance different spending ...
Alberto Turnes +2 more
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