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Does Carbon Intensity Affect the Cost of Equity? An Empirical Study From Mexico
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change poses significant risks for companies, particularly in emerging countries like Mexico, where sustainability perceptions are evolving. This study analyzes how carbon emissions affect the cost of equity capital (CoE) for Mexican firms.
Guillermo Pérez‐Elizundia +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be achieved by 2030, prompting debate about what should follow. Beyond revision, there is a need to critically examine what values and assumptions have shaped how the SDGs are conceptualised and operationalised.
Gin Dupont +7 more
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Taxation and Decentralization [PDF]
Strengthening subnational governments is high on the policy agenda of many developing countries. From an economics perspective, the most important potential benefit from decentralization is the increased efficiency (and consequent welfare gain) that ...
Bird, Richard
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Cannabis Agritourism and Local Pathways Toward Sustainable Development Goals in Northern California
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent acceleration in global cannabis legalization offers a new context for examining the multiscale links between agritourism, sustainability, and international policy frameworks. In this study, Responsible Tourism is used to conceptualize cannabis agritourism in Northern California's Emerald Triangle as a strategy that may advance targets ...
Susan Dupej +2 more
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Water AlternativesThe paper investigates the Lake Chad Basin’s complex multilevel water governance framework. It highlights the involvement of subnational governments in this framework as a notable deviation from traditional international relations practices.
Ifeanyichukwu Azuka Aniyie +1 more
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Fiscal federalism and procyclical spending: the cases of Argentina and Brazil
Económica, 2006 This paper studies the sources of procyclicality for the spending of subnational governments in Argentina and Brazil. We find that tax sharing schemes explain only a marginal share of the prociclicality of revenues, with most of the prociclicality ...
Federico Sturzenegger +1 more
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Measuring the Role of Subnational Governments
IMF Working Papers, 1991 To measure subnational governments, only external money flows are counted, excluding intra-level transactions in measuring a level of government and all intergovernmental transactions in measuring general government. Control, finance, and administration should be distinguished in measuring centralization and each level’s share of general government ...
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Education is a cornerstone of sustainable development, yet large disparities in access persist across and within countries—particularly in Africa, where millions remain underserved. Among several factors influencing educational participation, physical accessibility to schools (in terms of travel time) is not comprehensively understood ...
Diana Jaramillo‐Araujo, Jim W. Hall
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digitalisation has become an increasingly prominent topic in research on regional sustainable development. As academic attention to its relationship with Sustainable Development Goals expands, the thematic configuration and structural evolution of this research domain remain fragmented.
Georgiana Alina Crisan +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the gap in subnational assessments of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by benchmarking the performance of European Union NUTS‐2 regions in the People and Prosperity pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Pablo Arocena +2 more
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