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Back to the Future: Labour and the Politics of Financial Deregulation

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the professed aims of the current Labour government in the UK is to boost GDP by ‘cutting red tape’. This also applies to the financial sector, where in recent months regulators have been asked to reflect on how rule changes could contribute to competitiveness and growth. A flurry of deregulatory initiatives has resulted from this.
Nick Kotucha
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Liberalization and Mortality Rates: Evidence of Pro-Cyclical Mortality From Brazil. [PDF]

Health Econ
Cícero VC, Dias LCC, Zahran S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Planning and Solar Farms: A Front Line in Net Zero Disputes?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Solar power is rapidly increasing in importance as a source of UK renewable energy. However, planning applications for solar farms have emerged as a new cleavage in what was previously a consensus policy area of acting to counter climate change.
David Toke, Costanza Concetti, Muhammad Mohsin Hussain, Paula Duffy, Jo Vergunst   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing a national framework for preventing fraud in Iran's health system: a sequential mixed-methods study using qualitative analysis and Delphi consensus. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Vafaee Najar A, Hooshmand E.
europepmc   +1 more source

SUBSTITUTING FOR THE STATE: The Sovereignty Impacts of Diverse Citizens’ Off‐grid Infrastructure Strategies in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In South Africa, citizens in both low‐ and high‐income areas are increasingly providing their own services to mitigate the unreliability, unaffordability and inaccessibility of state services. This article examines diverse case studies across socio‐economic and residential typologies to explore shifts in service provision responsibilities from
Fiona Anciano, Charlotte Lemanski, Christina Culwick Fatti, Margot Rubin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Solar photovoltaic feed-in tariffs: viability analysis and policy recommendations. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mekonnen T, Tsegaye S, Belete B, Selvaraj J, Negewo A, Minaye E, Godana K, Wolie A.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘CLOSING THE CARBON LOOP’: Climate Policy Discourses and the Material Politics of Municipal Waste‐to‐Biofuel Programs

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Waste‐to‐biofuel (WTB) programs have gained popularity as a municipal circular economy and an emissions reduction strategy. The upgrading of biofuels to renewable natural gas (RNG) has drawn particular interest, as RNG can displace conventional fossil fuels in any existing natural gas end use and be delivered through existing pipeline ...
Taylor Davey
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of China's Accession Protocol on its participation in the WTO dispute settlement mechanism: An analysis of eleven cases involving China's Accession Protocol. [PDF]

Heliyon
Qianyi S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Planning, operation and control of flexible distribution networks

Energy Conversion and Economics, EarlyView.
Shenxi Zhang, Yichen Shen, Peng Li, Yue Zhou, Yue Xiang, Haozhong Cheng, Pengfei Zhao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source