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Missing Calvo? Latin America’s love-hate relationship with the Investment Treaty Regime
Revista Conjuntura Austral, 2021 For decades, following the views of the Argentine legal scholar Carlos Calvo, Latin American countries avoided adopting international investment treaties. The Calvo doctrine established that disputes between foreign investors and the state should only be
Lucas Silva Amorim +2 more
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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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Studia z Polityki Publicznej, 2022 This paper develops a unified model of policy diffusion to analyze the speed of adoption of statewide lockdown policies within a federal system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sharon Elhadad, Udi Sommer
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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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Private philanthropy or policy transfer? The transnational norms of the Open Society Institute [PDF]
, 2010 The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a private operating and grant-making foundation that serves as the hub of the Soros Foundations Network, a group of autonomous national foundations around the world.
Stone, Diane
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Load Balancing in the Non-Degenerate Slowdown Regime [PDF]
, 2018 We analyse Join-the-Shortest-Queue in a contemporary scaling regime known as the Non-Degenerate Slowdown regime. Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) is a classical load balancing policy for queueing systems with multiple parallel servers.
Gupta, Varun, Walton, Neil
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Diffusion of China's Community Health Management Policies: an Analysis Using Diffusion of Innovation Theory [PDF]
Zhongguo quanke yixue, 2022 Background All levels of China gevernment departments have attached importance to community health management services, an important way for disease prevention and resident saveealth improvement, and successively promulgated relevant management policies.
Hang XU, Xiaojing MA, Tao DAI
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Transnational policy transfer: the circulation of ideas, power and development models
Policy & Society, 2020 The study of policy transfer initially focused on transfers and transmissions among developed countries or from developed countries to the developing world. Today the circulation of policy and knowledge has become more dense and complex.
Diane Stone +2 more
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The Affordable Care Act and the Diffusion of Policy Feedback: The Case of Medicaid Work Requirements
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020 Over the last five years, many states have sought to limit access to Medicaid by adopting restrictive policies. How can we reconcile this development with studies that imply that Medicaid should be insulated from policy backlash?
Richard C. Fording, Dana Patton
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Comparative planning and housing studies beyond taxonomy
Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 2018 Recent European comparative studies in the fields of housing policy and spatial planning have been dominated by taxonomical and linear approaches, and by normative calls for convergence toward systems considered more ‘mature’ or ‘advanced’.
Simone Tulumello +4 more
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