Harmonizing Social Impact Assessment in the Bioeconomy: A Cross‐Regional Fuzzy‐Delphi Approach
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy transition risks underrepresenting social sustainability, while existing Social Life Cycle Assessment (S‐LCA) applications remain insufficient for comparison and decision support due to heterogeneous and non‐standardized selection of social impact categories. This study proposes a cross‐regional baseline set of impact categories
Julia Lessa Feitosa Virgolino +2 more
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International fiscal architecture for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Waris A +3 more
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Overcoming arguments against tackling child poverty and inequalities: marshalling the evidence. [PDF]
Limburg M +3 more
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Symbolic Versus Substantive ESG Practices: A Systematic Review and Integrative Framework
ABSTRACT ESG reporting is widespread, but symbolic commitments do not always reflect substantive practices. This study conducts a systematic literature review of 62 empirical articles published between 2021 and 2025 to synthesize the main determinants and consequences of this disclosure–performance misalignment in ESG reporting (commonly referred to as
Cristina Alexandrina Ştefănescu +1 more
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A Shared Threshold Rule for Ants and Workers: Multi-Objective Design of Labour-Force Participation Policy and a Division-of-Labour Evolutionary Algorithm. [PDF]
Liang G, Cai X.
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ABSTRACT The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)‐performance literature has grown substantially, yet a fundamental question remains underexplored: do ESG investments improve firm performance, or do high‐performing firms simply invest more in ESG? We empirically address this question using panel vector autoregression with Granger causality tests
Jiyeon Kim, Wooyoung Yang
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Equity in health financing in China: a national financing and benefit incidence analysis, 2013-2023. [PDF]
Chen T, Zhan P, Fu H.
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ABSTRACT Corporations increasingly use Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reports to articulate their commitments, priorities, and performance in sustainability governance. This study examines how Korean firms have configured and reconfigured their sustainability discourses across industries and time using 634 sustainability reports (2014–2024)
Taedong Lee +3 more
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Securing Somalia's health: leveraging sin tax revenues to drive universal health coverage and financial protection for lifesaving care in Somalia's health system-scoping review. [PDF]
Hussein SA +22 more
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