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An integrated approach to the Paris climate Agreement : the role of regions and cities

Matsumoto, Tadashi; Allain-Dupré, Dorothée; Crook, … - 2019

Following the historic 2015 Paris Agreement aiming to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, 165 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, representing 192 countries, have been submitted. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) detail each...

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Going up and down : rethinking the empirics of growth in the developing and newly industrialized world

Lamperti, Francesco; Mattei, Clara Elisabetta - 2016 - This version: January 2016

growth phases. Results show that expansionary regimes are associated with convergence and positive correlation between growth …

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Global dynamic timelines for IPRs harmonization against software piracy

Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2013

This paper employs a recent methodological innovation on intellectual property rights (IPRs) harmonization to project global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental characteristics of software piracy based on...

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Harmonizing IPRs on software piracy : empirics of trajectories in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

systems, convergence in piracy rate could be a genuine standard-setting platform. (2) Legal origins do not play a very … significant role in the convergence process. (3) A genuine timeframe for standardizing IPRs laws in the fight against piracy is … most likely between a horizon of 4 to 8 years. In other words, full (100%) convergence within the specified horizon will …

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Global trajectories, dynamics, and tendencies of business software piracy : benchmarking IPRs harmonization

Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2014

feasible within a horizon of 4.3 to 10.4 years. In other words, full (100%) convergence within the specified timeframe will … characteristics of software piracy. The absence of convergence (in absolute and conditional terms) for the World panel indicates that …

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Persistence in incarcerations : global comparative evidence

Asongu, Simplice - 2017

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to assess how incarcerations persist across the world. The focus is on 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. In order to increase room for policy...

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The competitiveness of global port-cities : synthesis report

Merk, Olaf - 2013

This report provides a synthesis of main findings from the OECD Port-Cities Programme, created in 2010 in order to assess the impact of ports on their cities and provide policy recommendations to increase the positive impacts of ports on their cities.

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Choosing sides in the trilemma : international financial cycles and structural change in developing economies

Cimoli, Mario; Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio; Porcile, … - 2017 - This version: May 01 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of international financial cycles on structural change in developing economies. It is argued that the impact of these cycles depend on the specific combination of macroeconomic and industrial policies adopted by the developing economy. The cases of Brazil and...

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Income levels and income growth : some new cross-country evidence and some interpretative puzzles

Castaldi, Carolina (contributor); Dosi, Giovanni (contributor) - 2006 - This version: 3rd July 2006

This work brings together two distinct pieces of evidence concerning, at macro level, international distributions of incomes and their dynamics, and, at micro level, the size distributions of firms and the properties of their growth rates. Moreover, we take into the picture an intermediate level...

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Towards inclusive green growth in Africa : critical energy efficiency synergies and governance thresholds

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Ojong, Nathanael - 2022

This study contributes to the scholarly literature on the drive towards sustainable development in light of the UN's Agenda 2030 and the African Union's Agenda 2063 by examining pathways through which energy efficiency (EE) promotes inclusive green growth (IGG) in Africa. Our contribution is...

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