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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are increasing calls for a place‐based approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals that show their territorial diversity at subnational level. Based on 33 indicators, covering 13 SDGs and aggregated in three sub‐indexes (economy, social and environment), this paper develops a Sustainable Development Index for Rural and Urban Areas
Lucas Olmedo +3 more
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Information Technology and India’s Economic Development [PDF]
This paper discusses the possibilities for broad-based IT-led economic growth in India, including increasing value-added, using better telecom links to capture more benefits domestically through offshore development for developed country firms, greater ...
Nirvikar Singh
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa faces persistently high poverty and inequality alongside a highly concentrated economic structure, raising questions about whether merger control, especially public‐interest provisions, can contribute to poverty reduction. However, empirical evidence directly linking merger adjudication outcomes to poverty remains limited.
Nicholas Ngepah +2 more
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New tools for studying network industry reforms in developing countries : the telecommunications and electricity regulation database [PDF]
Infrastructure industries-including telecommunications, electricity, water, and gas-underwent massive structural changes in the 1990s. During that decade, hundreds of privatization transactions valued at billions of dollars were completed in these ...
Clarke, George +6 more
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Does Carbon Intensity Affect the Cost of Equity? An Empirical Study From Mexico
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change poses significant risks for companies, particularly in emerging countries like Mexico, where sustainability perceptions are evolving. This study analyzes how carbon emissions affect the cost of equity capital (CoE) for Mexican firms.
Guillermo Pérez‐Elizundia +2 more
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An assessment of telecommunications reform in developing countries [PDF]
The authors analyze the effect of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean over the period 1985 to ...
Fink, Carsten +2 more
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The Strategic Logic of Biodiversity: Why Firms Invest in Nature‐Based Initiatives
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss poses profound strategic and operational challenges for firms, yet management research offers limited evidence on which organisational mechanisms effectively reduce corporate biodiversity impacts. This study introduces the Biodiversity Strategy Configuration Framework (BSCF) to enhance the understanding of firm‐level ...
Post Raj Pokharel
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Why Reform Fails: The ‘Politics of Policies’ in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization [PDF]
As the 'Washington Consensus' reforms are losing momentum in Latin America, the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB) is calling for shifting the focus from the content of policy choices to the political process of their implementation.
Bert Hoffmann
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This study examines how academic entrepreneurs refine business ideas in response to external critique and how these responses relate to performance. We develop a framework that links feedback (critique), business‐idea changes (pivots), and performance, and test it using detailed data on external stakeholder feedback, changes ...
D. Carrington Motley +2 more
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THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF TURKEY’S INDUSTRIAL POLICY TOWARDS EU MEMBERSHIP:IS IT REALISTIC OR NOT? [PDF]
Generally, “industrial policy” can be defined as government interventions to promote industrial development beyond what would be realized by free market conditions.
Soyak, Alkan
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