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The political economy of clean energy transitions at sub-national level: Understanding the role of international climate regimes in energy policy in two Brazilian states

Puppim de Oliveira, Jose Antonio; Andrade, Celio - 2016

This paper examines the political economy aspects, particularly the influence of the Clean Development Mechanism, in clean energy and climate change policies in the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The different mechanisms for responding to climate change are financing...

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Looking ahead to COP27 - from climate pledges to action: The Global Methane Pledge - opportunities and risks

Romsom, Etienne; McPhail, Kathryn - 2022

reasons. Carbon emissions policies and measures focus too little on absolute emission targets and too much on relative … ('hand-me-down assets') is reducing transparency on emissions and emissionsreducing investments. Measuring emissions using … middle-income countries. Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate way to slow the rate of global warming, even as …

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Aid, social policy, and development

Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015

This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...

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What makes countries negotiate away their corporate tax base?

Hearson, Martin - 2017

Qualitative case studies suggest that the outcomes of tax treaty negotiations are determined by power politics and negotiating capability. In contrast, quantitative studies have tended to depart from a model that implies absolute gains, full rationality, and perfect information on the part of...

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Policy diffusion within international organizations: A bottom-up analysis of International Monetary Fund tax work in Panama, Seychelles, and the Netherlands

Ylönen, Matti - 2017

I analyse the evolution of the International Monetary Fund tax policy advice in three countries commonly used for tax evasion or avoidance: Panama, Seychelles, and the Netherlands. A review of loan agreements and Country Reports covering 1999 to 2017 highlights the dependence of the Fund's...

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Multilateral development aid: Assessing the major replenishments of 2016

Manning, Richard - 2017

This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with grant funding from traditional donors generally in decline...

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Economic sanctions and trade flows in the neighbourhood

Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2021

We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with the sanctioned state. On the one hand, trade models suggest that trade flows should decrease as sanctions disrupt trading routes and economic ties with suppliers and customers. On the other hand,...

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Mothers at peace: Post-conflict fertility and United Nations peacekeeping

Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2022

Armed conflict can shape reproductive behaviour as high child mortality and a lack of health services lead to higher fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the extant empirical evidence is often inconclusive. As a...

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Trust the hand that protects you: Does UN peacekeeping harm post-conflict governments' legitimacy?

Di Salvatore, Jessica - 2022

Rebuilding state legitimacy is a thorny challenge in the aftermath of civil wars. The international community has stepped in to support post-conflict states in rebuilding state capacity, sometimes replacing governments in providing public goods. Most notably, research shows that UN peacekeepers...

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Power, institutions, and state-building after war: A controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi

McDoom, Omar - 2023

I examine whether and how the means through which a civil war ends affects the success of a country's state-building strategy after conflict. I show that two distinct modes of conflict termination-military victories and negotiated settlements-lead to differential long-run statebuilding outcomes...

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