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In its 1994 collective opinion, Radiation Protection Today and Tomorrow, the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health (CRPPH) concluded that societal participation in the decision-making process is becoming increasingly important. This was seen as particularly true in the case of...
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. This report makes a case for the development of a common global standard on transparency of payments that trading hubs … inclusion of disclosure obligations in commodity sales contracts to set clear expectations on transparency of payments, and …
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transparency, prompting international organisations and national authorities to step up their efforts to improve the consistency …, comparability, scope and frequency of debt statistics. The report offers guidance and recommendations to improve debt transparency …
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transparency report on CSEA. Even among those services, there are significant variations in what behaviour is captured in their … definitions, and the metrics, methodology and frequency of transparency reports differ across platforms. While good practices …
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Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Although this international integration presents considerable opportunities for developing countries, it also contains significant risks. Associated with...
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Societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Integration is the result of reduced costs of transport, lower trade barriers, faster communication of ideas, rising capital flows, and intensifying pressures for mitigation. Integration--or "globalization"--has generated...
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innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal … collectivism, in line with recent advances in biology and neuro-science. The effect of culture on long-run growth remains very …
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Can some acts of violence be explained by a society's "culture"? Scholars have found it hard to empirically disentangle … the effects of culture, legal institutions, and poverty in driving violence. We address this problem by exploiting a …
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