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Subnational Government Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria’s South-South Region: A Disaggregated Approach [PDF]

International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
The study aims to empirically examine the contribution of subnational government expenditure to economic growth in South-South Nigeria. Existing studies on the relationship between government expenditure and economic growth yield conflicting results ...
Efayena Obukohwo, Jonathan Oniore, Oghenevwarhe Osekene   +2 more
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Is Nigeria on course to achieve universal health coverage in the context of its epidemiological and financing transition? A knowledge, capacity and policy gap analysis (a qualitative study)

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives This study aimed to assess Nigeria’s preparedness to finance and drive the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda within the context of changing health conditions and resource needs associated with the disease, demographic and funding ...
Osondu Ogbuoji, Gavin Yamey, Wenhui Mao, Ipchita Bharali, Yewande Kofoworola Ogundeji, Nneka Orji, Kelechi Ohiri, Oluwabambi Tinuoye   +7 more
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
wiley   +1 more source

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Canadian Federalism in Design and Practice: The Mechanics of a Permanently Provisional Constitution

Perspectives on Federalism, 2017
This paper examines the interaction between constitutional design and practice through a case study of Canadian federalism. Focusing on the federal architecture of the Canadian Constitution, the paper examines how subnational units in Canada actually ...
Gardner James A.
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Second Chambers: Alternative Representation of Territorial Interests and Their Reasons

Perspectives on Federalism, 2018
The paper contends that bicameral systems, irrespective of their differences in composition and powers, are unfit to represent territorial interests in the national decisionmaking process, except in some residual cases.
Palermo Francesco
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Fiscal Federalism and the COVID-19 Crisis: Theoretical Aspects and Poland’s Experience

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2022
The article analyzes the specifics of the COVID-19 crisis and its impact on the public finance system, taking into account the key problems of the theory of fiscal federalism. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of the pandemic crisis on
Poniatowicz Marzanna
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Occupational recognition and teachers’ retention intentions: A latent profile analysis informed by recognition theory

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Teacher retention is often explained through workload, job satisfaction and burnout, but these accounts have examined less systematically whether teachers experience their profession as socially and institutionally recognised. Drawing on recognition theory, this study examines how occupational recognition is configured across material and ...
Mengting Qian, Yufei Fang, Chunshun Yan, Yangxi Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Governance Structures Drive Green Building Adoption? A Machine Learning Approach With Random Forests

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez, José Manuel Santos‐Jaén, María Estefanía Sánchez Pacheco, Fernando José Zambrano Farías   +3 more
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