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Subnational Debt Finance and the Global Financial Crisis [PDF]

open access: yes
This note focuses on the impact of the global financial crisis on subnational debt financing. We approach the following questions: Why is subnational debt financing important? What are the impacts of the crisis on the fiscal balance and financing cost of
Liu, Lili, Canuto, Otaviano
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Rewiring the Circular Economy Through AI‐Informed Pathways: Structural and Distributional Drivers of Environmental Outcomes in the European Union

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the structural and distributional factors that influence environmental performance in 27 European Union (EU) countries from 2010 to 2021, focusing especially on circular economy (CE) measures and the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI)‐based analytical tools.
Cosimo Magazzino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Tailor-Made Legal Suit: The Actual Scope, Power, and Functioning of NAFTA Chapter 11’s Rules and Institutions for the Settlement of Cross-Border Disputes

open access: yesNorteamérica, 2016
Many scholars argue that the rules, mechanisms and bodies established under the North American Free Trade Agreement’s Chapter 11 for the settlement of disputes on foreign direct investment have undermined the policymaking capacities of national and ...
Iván Farías Pelcastre
doaj   +1 more source

Laws for fiscal responsibility for subnational discipline : international experience [PDF]

open access: yes
Fiscal responsibility laws are institutions with which multiple governments in the same economy -- national and subnational --can commit to help avoid irresponsible fiscal behavior that could have short-term advantages to one of them but that would be ...
Liu, Lili, Webb, Steven B.
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Next Steps for Decentralization and Subnational Governments In Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Subnational governments in Latin America and the Caribbean are becoming increasingly important in the provision of public goods and services. In fact, their participation in the public expenditure increased from 13 to 25 percent between 1985 and 2015 ...
Inter-American Development Bank
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The AI Sustainability Paradox: How Verification and Regulation Synergize to Curb Greenwashing in Emerging Markets

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) reflects a paradox for corporate sustainability: it provides tools for genuine socio‐economic improvement and enables greenwashing at scale. This study examines this duality in emerging Asian markets, where rapid AI adoption coincides with evolving regulatory regimes.
Ashutosh Yadav, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding urban–rural disparities in digital government maturity: a governance perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
The purpose of this study is to examine how differences in governance capacity shape urban–rural disparities in digital government maturity at the subnational level.
Yayuk Astuti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the Intellectual Structure of AI‐Driven ESG Cost Modeling: A Bibliometric Analysis of Trends, Themes, and Future Directions

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The bibliometric and qualitative analyses of 470 publications in the Web of Science Core Collection from 2004 through 2025 in this study associated the intellectual structure and thematic evolution of AI‐driven ESG cost modeling. The research commences using an integrated analytical framework consisting of three tools: (1) Bibliometrix (R) for
Nesreen Al‐Malkawi, Adriana Giret
wiley   +1 more source

How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size? [PDF]

open access: yes
Beyond conducting the usual regression analysis of the relationship between fiscal decentralization and aggregate government size (national and subnational combined), this paper makes the first attempt to examine how different fiscal decentralization ...
Jing Jin, Heng-fu Zou
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The Institutionalization of REIT Sustainability Reporting: Cross‐Country Evidence From ESG Disclosure Regimes and Building Sustainability Policies

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the institutionalization and textual evolution of sustainability reporting among listed real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, and Japan between 2020 and 2025.
Seonghun Min
wiley   +1 more source

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