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Reverse Causal Nexus between Pro‐Poor Policies and Income Inequality in Kenya

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 6, Page 1163-1181, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Different developing economies are encountering various regional challenges associated with income inequality. However, several contributing factors to inequality and access to opportunities, such as a quality education system, have been identified as the key factors.
Isaiah Juma Maket   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy beliefs, policy learning, and risk perception: Exploring the formation of local creative Placemaking‐catalyzed policy network

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 153-175, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This article studies the formation of a local Creative Placemaking (CPM) policy network based on the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and social capital perspective of policy networks. This article hypothesizes that policy beliefs, policy learning, social capital, and the perceived risks induced by defections, as well as macro‐level changes ...
Wen Guo
wiley   +1 more source

A critical appraisal of individual social capital in crisis response

open access: yesRisk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 13, Issue 2, Page 176-199, June 2022., 2022
Abstract While there is still a vast body of scholarly research in crisis and disaster management that considers social capital an asset for lessening negative impacts from crises, this paper investigates an underexplored aspect of social capital—its microlevel positive and negative instances in the crisis response—a quite neglected phase of the crisis
Claudia Morsut   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging research and practice in conservation

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 1725-1737, December 2021., 2021
Abstract Calls for biodiversity conservation practice to be more evidence based are growing, and we agree evidence use in conservation practice needs improvement. However, evidence‐based conservation will not be realized without improved access to evidence.
Andrew N. Kadykalo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data linkage and pain medication in people with cerebral palsy: a cross‐sectional study

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 63, Issue 9, Page 1085-1092, September 2021., 2021
Aim To explore data linkage and pain medication as a proxy for pain, to assess differences in pain medication between the cerebral palsy (CP) and the general populations, and to identify factors associated with pain medication in CP. Method This cross‐sectional study linked the Northern Ireland CP Register and two administrative health care databases ...
Elena Guiomar García Jalón   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A strategy for the next decade to address data deficiency in neglected biodiversity

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 502-509, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Measuring progress toward international biodiversity targets requires robust information on the conservation status of species, which the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species provides. However, data and capacity are lacking for most hyperdiverse groups, such as invertebrates, plants, and fungi ...
Axel Hochkirch   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

China as Exemplar: Justin Lin, New Structural Economics, and the Unorthodox Orthodoxy of the China Model

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 815-835, October 2020., 2020
Despite vociferous disagreement by scholars and ambivalence by China over a “China Model” of development, China is still held up as an exemplar of development. Nowhere is this clearer than in the theory of New Structural Economics (NSE) promulgated by the former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Justin Lin.
John H. S. Åberg, Derick Becker
wiley   +1 more source

Delivering the promises of trait‐based approaches to the needs of demographic approaches, and vice versa

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 1424-1435, June 2018., 2018
Abstract Few facets of biology vary more than functional traits and life‐history traits. To explore this vast variation, functional ecologists and population ecologists have developed independent approaches that identify the mechanisms behind and consequences of trait variation.
Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
wiley   +1 more source

Index case finding facilitates identification and linkage to care of children and young persons living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi

open access: yesTropical Medicine &International Health, Volume 22, Issue 8, Page 1021-1029, August 2017., 2017
Abstract Objectives Evaluation of a novel index case finding and linkage‐to‐care programme to identify and link HIV‐infected children (1–15 years) and young persons (>15–24 years) to care. Methods HIV‐infected patients enrolled in HIV services were screened and those who reported untested household members (index cases) were offered home‐ or facility ...
Saeed Ahmed   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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