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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the frequency and determinants of COVID-19 prevention behaviours: a cross-sectional assessment of large-scale programmes in seven countries, late 2020. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Bick S, White S, Hasund Thorseth A, Friedrich MND, Gavin I, Prasad Gautam O, Dreibelbis R.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Responsible Innovation: The Impact of Major Industrial Disasters and Gender in a Global South Context

Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Responsible innovation (RI) dynamics remain underexplored in Global South contexts, which have a high prevalence of micro‐ and small enterprises and are vulnerable to the devastating effects of industrial disasters. Only a few studies examine RI within such settings, where it is arguably needed most.
Afreen Choudhury, Magda Hassan, Jarrod P. Vassallo, Chinmay Pattnaik   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of community-led total sanitation on open defecation in Uganda: A propensity score-matched analysis. [PDF]

PLoS One
Asiimwe JB, Namawejje H, Mirembe FR, Adong A, Achola J, Nabaasa H, Mulusew J, Izudi J, Kadengye DT.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Open defecation free status and its determinants in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional survey. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Ntaro M, Isunju JB, Mulogo E, Ssempebwa JC.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Differential responses of fungal guilds to climatic effects mediated by changes in dominant vegetation

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Sampling design and locations in Europe from the southernmost to the northernmost location: Taygetos (Greece), Manchoya (Spain), Cvrsnica (BIH), Comborsier (France), Krn (Slovenia), Dachstein (Austria), Malá Fatra (Slovakia), Jondal (Norway). Summary Climate is a major driver of fungal species distributions and community composition, yet disentangling ...
Andrea Moravcová, Florian Barbi, Iñaki Odriozola, Tijana Martinović, Vendula Brabcová, Lenka Mészárošová, Ella Thoen, Antonín Machač, Petr Baldrian, Petr Kohout   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kukaa Salama (Staying Safe): a pre-post trial of an interactive informational mobile health intervention for increasing COVID-19 prevention practices with urban refugee youth in Uganda. [PDF]

Int Health
Logie CH, Okumu M, Berry I, Kortenaar JL, Hakiza R, Musoke DK, Katisi B, Nakitende A, Kyambadde P, Lester R, Perez-Brumer AG, Admassu Z, Mbuagbaw L.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: How Multinational Enterprises Approach Regulatory Familiarization in the Chocolate Sector

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adopted in 2024, the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EUCS3D, alternatively EUCSDDD) instructs member states to regulate human rights and environmental due diligence across business operations and their global value chains.
Manuel Kiewisch
wiley   +1 more source

Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames.
Onna Malou van den Broek, Judith Schrempf‐Stirling, Frank de Bakker, Arno Kourula   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source