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The Role of Subnational Governments in Sectoral Integration [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
subnational governments and sectoral ...
Fry, Earl H.
core  

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Drivers of Sustainability Transitions in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Why One Size Does Not Fit All

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing emphasis on sustainability transitions in developing economies, evidence remains limited on how environmental, social and governance (ESG) conditions shape sustainability outcomes in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). This study examines the environmental, social and governance drivers of sustainability transition performance across 39 ...
Emmanuel Kwaku Manu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralization, Subnational Governments' Behaviour and Macroeconomic Instability: The Case of Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes
In the last two decades there has been a worldwide interest in decentralization of government in all parts of the world. There are two main objectives that we tried to achieve through this study.
Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah
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Subnational governments in transnational networks for sustainable development

open access: yes, 2010
ENCORE, Governance, Identity politics, nrg4SD, Sustainable development, Transnational networks of subnational governments,
Sander Happaerts   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Examining ESG Performance Through TNFD‐Aligned Disclosure Practices

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines adherence to the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework in relation to the ESG performance of non‐financial and non‐utility S&P 500 firms. Drawing on legitimacy, stakeholder, and institutional monitoring theories, we construct measures of TNFD, nature‐related risk and opportunity indicators for ...
Dauda Bola Abdulsalam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Economy of the Malaysian Subnational Governments’ Fiscal Behavior

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management Studies, 2009
This article attempts to shed light on the political economy of the Malaysian state governments’ budgetary behaviour by tailoring hypotheses drawn from recent theoretical literature to the Malaysian institutional context and testing them empirically. The
Ahmad Zafarullah Abdul Jalil
doaj   +1 more source

Subnational taxation in developing countries : a review of the literature [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reviews the literature on tax assignment in decentralized countries. Ideally, own-source revenues should be sufficient to enable at least the richest subnational governments to finance from their own resources all locally-provided services ...
Bird, Richard M.
core  

Assessing subnational governments’ role in climate action: federalism and governance challenges in Nepal

open access: yes
The Paris Agreement and the IPCC emphasize the critical role of subnational governments in advancing climate action, particularly in federal countries like Nepal.
Bhatta, Ranjan   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Sustainability Certifications as Strategic Tools: Environmental Accountability, Institutional Robustness and Global Convergence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability certifications are increasingly used as strategic tools to advance accountability for environmental sustainability. This study addresses the challenge of fragmented national certification standards by proposing and applying a replicable method to assess the structural robustness and convergence of industry‐specific ...
Teresa Turzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalizing Investor-State Dispute Prevention in China

open access: yesAJIL Unbound
China's 2019 Foreign Investment Law establishes a formal mechanism to handle complaints by foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs)—i.e., Chinese enterprises that are wholly or partly foreign-owned.
Zhenyu Xiao
doaj   +1 more source

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