Abstract Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) are novel financing mechanisms that encourage coal‐dependent emerging economies to transition away from fossil fuels. JETPs aim to facilitate coal phaseout and transitions to renewable energy through private and public financing.
Francine Hug
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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La desmitificación de la guerra civil norteamericana en la narrativa de Robert Penn Warren [PDF]
Río Raigadas, David
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Can the Poor Participate in Payments for Environmental Services?: Lessons from the Silvopastoral Project in Nicaragua [PDF]
This paper uses data from a Payments for Environmental Services (PES) project being implemented in Nicaragua to examine the extent to which poorer households that are eligible to participate are in fact able to do so, an issue over which there has been ...
Arcenas, Agustin +2 more
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Social welfare effects of annuitization in small open economies
Abstract This paper develops a theory of when annuitization improves or reduces social welfare. The analysis is based on a small open economy with exogenous prices, populated by overlapping generations of non‐altruistic agents. Annuities provide longevity risk insurance and above‐market returns, but also reduce accidental bequests that transfer ...
Tim D. Maurer
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Importation of Obsidian at Cerro Palenque, Honduras: Results of an Analysis by EDXRF
The results of source analysis by EDXRF of obsidian artifacts from the Mesoamerican site of Cerro Palenque in Honduras are reported and changes over time discussed. Sources of obsidian include Ixtepeque, El Chayal, Jalapa, San Martin Jilotepeque, and San
Hendon, Julia A.
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The Role of Tax‐Benefit Systems in Reducing the Gender Income Gap in Latin America
ABSTRACT This paper aims to assess the extent to which cash transfers, direct taxes, and social insurance contributions help to reduce gender income inequalities in seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.
María Cecilia Deza +4 more
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Cormac McCarthy's borderlands: a challenge to a mythic construct of the American West [PDF]
Río Raigadas, David
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ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, including but not limited to Aedes aegypti, are major vectors of arboviruses such as dengue, Zika and other related diseases. Their global expansion is driven by climate change, globalisation, urbanisation and human mobility.
Ana Izabel Passarella Teixeira +8 more
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Epidemiological study of risk factors from nursery and growing-finishing pig farms associated with rate ratio of pleuritis at slaughterhouse in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. [PDF]
Zaghlout NC +11 more
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