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20th anniversary of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control coming into force: time for a step change in ambition. [PDF]

Lancet
Gilmore AB, Callard C, Sy D, Llorente BA, Bhojani U, Egbe CO, Bialous SA.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems

Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is ...
Anna Lundberg, Monika Lindbekk, Anna Sonander, Rustamjon Urinboyev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plastic mulch productivity-sustainability tradeoffs and pathways toward an eco-friendly framework: insights from a global meta-analysis. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Wang L, Guo S, Ge T, Mancl KM, Hijri M, Iseri Y, Lee SJ, Feng S, Wang L, Ji H, Sun D, Wei Z, Zhang Y, Lu P, Zhang X, Yang W, He C, Zhang J, Zhao Y, Dong D, Yang Y, Kang S, Siddique KHM, Zhao M, Gan GY.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Abuse Prevention in Tax Treaty Law

The book explores the problem of abuse prevention in tax treaty law from the 1977 OECD Model Tax Convention up to the recently adopted 2017 OECD and UN Model Tax Conventions incorporating the so-called "Principal Purpose Test" (PPT) .
Danon, R.
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The Long Arc of Forest Land Dispossession and Degradation—Firm and State Actions on Sámi Lands in the Wood‐Based Commodity Frontier in Northern Sweden, 1673–1955

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a new way of obtaining deep explanations of environmental problems. We expose the production strategies, corporate strategies and state actions that have been taken by firms and state agencies to facilitate the geographical expansion of the wood‐based commodity frontier at the expense of reindeer pastoralists among the ...
David Harnesk, Lars Östlund
wiley   +1 more source

Health equity and the global social contract: beyond incrementalism and illusionary solidarity. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Mulumba M, Oga J, Baguma C, Nantaba J, Ruano AL.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Demographic Dynamics and International Trade: Stylized Facts and Theoretical Insights

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Demographic change within a country has economic repercussions for other countries through international transactions. Ongoing shifts in population size and age structure across countries have important implications for international trade, operating through changes in market size, consumption preferences, and labor supply.
Kumuthini Sivathas
wiley   +1 more source

Examining Latin America's Transition to a Circular Economy for Plastics. [PDF]

Environ Manage
Rodríguez-Meza LR, Romero-Perdomo F, González-Curbelo MÁ.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tax effects on foreign direct investment-Just a rerouting. [PDF]

World Econ, 2023
Erokhin D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tax Treaty Abuse: Is Canada responding effectively?

This paper explores the means by which tax authorities worldwide seek to strengthen their tax treaties, through safeguards of varying nature and scope, in order to identify and prevent what they consider to be abuse of such treaties.
Geoffrey T. Loomer
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