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Reconciling devolution with health financing and public financial management: challenges and policy options for the health sector

open access: yesBMJ Global Health
The interplay between devolution, health financing and public financial management processes in health—or the lack of coherence between them—can have profound implications for a country’s progress towards universal health coverage.
Nirmala Ravishankar   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contextualizing Obesity and Diabetes Policy: Exploring a Nested Statistical and Constructivist Approach at the Cross-National and Subnational Government Level in the United States and Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017
Background This article conducts a comparative national and subnational government analysis of the political, economic, and ideational constructivist contextual factors facilitating the adoption of obesity and diabetes policy.
Eduardo J. Gómez
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesBusiness 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Paradiplomacia, a Cooperação descentralizada e a Integração Fronteiriça no Mercosul

open access: yesMeridiano 47, 2017
This article has the purpose to analyze the paradiplomacy and the decentralized cooperation within Mercosur. The paper will present the ways in which subnational governments of the Member States of Mercosur can act in the integration process, as well as ...
Arthur Pinheiro de Azevedo Banzatto   +1 more
doaj  

The role of subnational tax capacity: A path toward regional integration [PDF]

open access: yesPublic and Municipal Finance
The tax capacity exercised by subnational governments in a country is fundamental in shaping the tax and economic system, especially when there is a coordination of interests, such as in the Pacific Alliance.
César Vega Zárate   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The subsidiarity principle in innovation policy for societal challenges

open access: yesGlobal Transitions, 2020
While national governments are the main actors in innovation policy, we witness a proliferation of challenge-oriented innovation policies both at the subnational and the supranational level.
Iris Wanzenböck, Koen Frenken
doaj   +1 more source

A Decision‐Making Model for Implementing Green Technology in Sustainable Building Projects

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green technology (GT) adoption is pivotal for reconciling environmental stewardship with economic viability in the built environment, particularly in resource‐constrained emerging economies. However, empirical evidence on how specific GT drivers actively mitigate adoption barriers remains scarce.
Abdelazim Ibrahim   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

paradiplomacy of subnational governments in North America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Objective: to determine the factors that have contributed to the expansion in the international activities of the subnational actors and to identify the issues that prevail in the relations between the Canadian provinces and the subnational states of ...
Zepeda Martínez, Roberto   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Partisan Federalism and Subnational Governments' International Engagements: Insights from India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article situates the international activities of subnational governments in India within the broader political economy of federalism. It argues that the nature and the extent of subnational states’ engagements in international affairs are a function
Destradi, Sandra   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Eco‐Innovation, Economic Complexity, and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study systematizes the literature on eco‐innovation and economic complexity, aiming to understand how the sophistication of productive structures shapes countries' capacity to develop environmentally responsible innovations, and how eco‐innovation may, in turn, influence productive sophistication.
Gregory Matheus Pereira de Moraes   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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