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Policy & Society, 2020 This article focuses on the political dynamics shaping policy agendas and prescriptions in international organisations (IOs). It elucidates the interactions of Brazil’s state and non-state actors with international bureaucrats, and their role in framing ...
Carolina Milhorance
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Universality of Load Balancing Schemes on Diffusion Scale [PDF]
, 2015 We consider a system of $N$ parallel queues with identical exponential service rates and a single dispatcher where tasks arrive as a Poisson process.
Borst, S. C. +3 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2023 Ending the use of unabated coal power is a key climate change mitigation measure. However, we do not know how fast it is feasible to phase-out coal on the global scale. Historical experience of individual countries indicates feasible coal phase-out rates,
Vadim Vinichenko +4 more
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Carbon Pricing Under Pressure: Withering Markets?
Politics and Governance, 2022 Emissions trading systems (ETSs) are operating and developing in many regions and countries. Doubts have been raised about their effectiveness, but the global picture has many nuances, as the contributions to this thematic issue on carbon markets show ...
Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Jørgen Wettestad
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Global mobility of microfinance policies
Policy & Society, 2020 Throughout the 1970s in South Asia and Latin America, there was a surge of experiences of offering small loans through innovative practices. Following these successes, the dissemination of microfinance institutions is seen all over the globe.
Beatriz Oikawa Cordeiro
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Why Singapore works: five secrets of Singapore’s success [PDF]
Public Administration and Policy, 2018 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain why Singapore is a success story today despite the fact that its prospects for survival were dim when it became independent in August 1965.
Jon S.T. Quah
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Active Travel Studies, 2022 One way to support active mobility is by the successful articulation and diffusion of new bike-infrastructure concepts. This paper studies the journey of one such concept in the Netherlands, namely the cycle highway, which nowadays is often referred to ...
Arnoud Lagendijk, Huub Ploegmakers
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Policy ambassadors: human agency in the transnationalization of Brazilian social policies
Policy & Society, 2020 In the past decade, Brazil became a model for social policies, ‘exporting’ ideas and techniques to tackle issues on social participation, poverty and hunger mostly to Southern countries, but also to the Northern States.
Osmany Porto de Oliveira
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Mechanism of transforming the local experience in ecological product value realization into national policies: The case of Lishui City, Zhejiang Province [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue, 2023 [Objective] The transformation of local experiences into national policies is an important topic in China’s public policy research. The existing research mainly focuses on the transformation and diffusion of economic and social policies, and lacks the ...
ZHU Xinhua, JIA Xinrui
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The Joint Vienna Institute [PDF]
, 2010 "How does the intellectual role played by international training organisations fit into the contemporary architecture of global governance? The international diffusion of economic policy ideas represents one of the core dimensions of contemporary global ...
André Broome +11 more
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