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Institutional Diversity in Banking and Economic Complexity

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we test whether institutional diversity in banking systems is beneficial to economic complexity, using data for Italian provinces in the period 1998–2017. We compute different indexes that consider diversity from an ownership, institutional, business model and competition point of view and find that higher diversity has a ...
Beniamino Pisicoli
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Replication Data for: How democratic is government really? The impact of subnational regime variation on evaluations of democracy

Here are the replication files for the following article that is forthcoming in Governance: "How democratic is government really? The impact of subnational regime variation on evaluations of democracy" I include a cleaned dataset that contains variables ...
Fidalgo, Amanda
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Where Projects Fail: Geospatial Evidence of Delays and Cancellations in Chinese Development Finance

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Delays and cancellations can severely undermine the effectiveness of development finance. Yet, little systematic evidence exists on where and why these disruptions occur within the rapidly expanding portfolio of Chinese‐financed development projects in Africa.
Leoni Mendler‐Krakau
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Governing the Third Sector in the Gulf: A Systematic Review of Emergence, Capacity, and Policy Dynamics in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The third sector has emerged as an increasingly important actor in governance, social development, and public service delivery across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), yet scholarly understanding of its evolution, institutional capacity, and policy role remains fragmented and uneven.
Moosa Elayah, Ranin Darkhawaja, Rabha Barjit   +2 more
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AI‐Ready Bureaucracies? Assessing Capacity‐Building Approaches in European National AI Strategies

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies is reshaping expectations about state capacity, yet the role of civil servants in this transition remains insufficiently theorized. This study examines how EU Member States address the civil service workforce in their national AI strategies, employing content and cluster analysis ...
Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, Sergio Medina‐Bernabé, J. Ignacio Criado   +2 more
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Emergent media narratives on land conflicts in a global biocultural diversity hotspot

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Land conflicts (LCs) represent major challenges in regions where limited resources are contested by diverse actors. The triple frontier of the bioculturally diverse Alto Paraná Atlantic Forests (APAF) ecoregion concentrates some of the most intense LCs in South America.
Alberto Anticoli, Jonathan von Below, Ana Alice Eleuterio, Ritwik Kulkarni, Ahuvit Trumper, Aníbal Orué Pozzo, Enrico Di Minin, María Piquer‐Rodríguez   +7 more
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Policy Brief: Brazil's open ecosystems—Carbon stocks overlooked by climate finance

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The equitable recognition of the world's open ecosystems is critical for climate justice and societal well‐being. These ecosystems provide essential services, like carbon storage, water security, and biodiversity protection, that strengthen resilience to climate change. Yet, they remain overlooked in climate finance and policy frameworks that privilege
Franciele Parreira Peixoto, Gerhard Ernst Overbeck, Fernando A. O. Silveira, Newton La Scala Jr, Alexandre Bonesso Sampaio, Giselda Durigan, Amy E. Zanne, Larissa Verona, Valério D. Pillar, Ellane Van Wyk, Rafael S. Oliveira, Alessandra Bassani, Camila Carvalho de Carvalho, Natashi Pilon   +13 more
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Climate Crisis, Human Mobility and Security Challenges in the MENA Region: Implications for Sustainable Development and Regional Stability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay between climate change, violent conflict and forced migration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), focusing on asylum flows to the European Union (EU). By integrating high‐resolution climate, conflict and socioeconomic data spanning 2000 to 2023, we develop a comprehensive empirical framework to ...
Shifa Mathbout, George Boustras, Pierantonios Papazoglou, Javier Martin‐Vide, Joan A. Lopez‐Bustins   +4 more
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Integrating land financing into subnational fiscal management [PDF]

Land assets have become an important source of financing capital investments by subnational governments in developing countries. Land assets, often with billions of dollars per transaction, rival and sometimes surpass subnational borrowing or fiscal ...
Peterson, George E., Kaganova, Olga
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Localising the Sustainable Development Goals. A Place‐Based Analysis of Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Areas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are increasing calls for a place‐based approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals that show their territorial diversity at subnational level. Based on 33 indicators, covering 13 SDGs and aggregated in three sub‐indexes (economy, social and environment), this paper develops a Sustainable Development Index for Rural and Urban Areas
Lucas Olmedo, Paul Holloway, John Barimo, Mary O'Shaughnessy   +3 more
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