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Measuring How Water‐Related Policies of the Global South Consider Gender: Insights From Trialling a New Policy Gender Index in Nepal

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
This paper supports policymakers to consider how well their water‐related policies respond to gender roles, norms and relations. By braiding the latest philosophies on gender mainstreaming with Integrated Water Resources Management and Feminist Policy ...
Susan M. Cuddy, Sanju Koirala, Shahriar Wahid, David J. Penton   +3 more
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Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Transfer: Flood Risk Governance in Northern Sweden

Central European Journal of Public Policy, 2017
Central to policies relating to risk governance at the regional and local levels is the interaction between the public and private sectors also referred to as networked governance.
Petridou Evangelia, Olausson Pär M.
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Challenges of change facing entrepreneurs and Kuwaiti SMEs

Cogent Business & Management, 2020
This research paper addresses a clear question: what are the critical factors that policy makers and entrepreneurs need to be aware of when operating in transitional economies in order to sustain SMEs?
Nouf Al Bazie, Ashley Braganza
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Challenges and Future Directions in Assessing the Quality and Completeness of Advanced Materials Safety Data for Re‐Usability: A Position Paper From the Nanosafety Community

Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
Nanosafety data provide a guiding example for establishing best practices in data management, aligning with FAIR principles and quality criteria. This review explores existing quality assessment approaches for reliability, relevance, and completeness, emphasizing the need for harmonization and adaptation to nanomaterials and advanced materials. The aim
Verónica I. Dumit, Irini Furxhi, Penny Nymark, Antreas Afantitis, Ammar Ammar, Monica J. B. Amorim, Dalila Antunes, Svetlana Avramova, Chiara L. Battistelli, Gianpietro Basei, Cecilia Bossa, Emil Cimpan, Mihaela Roxana Cimpan, Dmitri Ciornii, Anna Costa, Camilla Delpivo, Maria Dusinska, Ana Sofia Fonseca, Steffi Friedrichs, Vasile‐Dan Hodoroaba, Danail Hristozov, Panagiotis Isigonis, Nina Jeliazkova, Nikolay Kochev, Eva Kranjc, Dieter Maier, Georgia Melagraki, Anastasios G. Papadiamantis, Tomasz Puzyn, Hubert Rauscher, Katie Reilly, Araceli Sánchez Jiménez, Janeck J. Scott‐Fordsmand, Neeraj Shandilya, Hyun Kil Shin, Gergana Tancheva, Jeaphianne P. M. van Rijn, Egon L. Willighagen, Ewelina Wyrzykowska, Martine I. Bakker, Damjana Drobne, Thomas E. Exner, Martin Himly, Iseult Lynch   +43 more
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A policy window and a network of global and local policy entrepreneurs: The introduction of opioid substitution therapy in Belarus

Central European Journal of Public Policy, 2021
Why does a regime that is predominantly characterised by conservative ideology introduce opioid substitution therapy (OST), a liberal policy? This article applies the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to examine the introduction of OST in Belarus ...
Babayan Ararat, Schlaufer Caroline, Uldanov Artem   +2 more
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Introduction [PDF]

, 1981
Background: The importance of supportive business networks has been widely acknowledged in the field of entrepreneurship. Due to the success of informal business networks, the same networking concept is frequently encouraged and applied by regional ...
Hägnemark, Johan, Vilkelyte, Monika
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Changes in Alcohol Retail Laws and Foot Traffic at Liquor Stores

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how expanding alcohol availability at grocery and convenience stores affects consumer traffic in liquor stores by leveraging recent changes in state‐level alcohol distribution laws in a difference‐in‐difference quasi‐experimental design.
Nathan Palardy, Marco Costanigro, Joshua Berning, Jude Bayham   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Startup life may stop here: Helping women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Global Business Insights, 2023
A great emphasis exists in research on entrepreneurs who start small- to medium-size businesses and who are seizing opportunities outside the corporate world, especially in developing countries like Tanzania.
Amr Swid, Emily Rukobo, Elizabeth Maro
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Generative Artificial Intelligence Shaping the Future of Agri‐Food Innovation

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Emerging use cases of generative artificial intelligence in agri‐food innovation. ABSTRACT The recent surge in generative artificial intelligence (AI), typified by models such as GPT, diffusion models, and large vision‐language architectures, has begun to influence the agri‐food sector.
Jun‐Li Xu, Dimitrios Argyropoulos, Tamíris da Costa   +2 more
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Comparing strategies and success of policy entrepreneurs in EU energy and climate policy processes

Energy, Sustainability and Society
Background The clean energy transition required for the decarbonisation of societies to meet climate, energy and sustainability goals make policymakers targets for broad business and non-business advocacy, ensuring that their often-conflicting interests ...
Fredrik von Malmborg
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