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When nature calls back : sustaining behavioural change in rural Pakistan

Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; Durrani, Zara; … - 2021

We implement a mixed method approach that combines a randomized controlled trial and qualitative data collection to assess whether, and if so how, behavioural change can be sustained. We do so in the context of Pakistan’s national sanitation strategy to combat open defecation, Community-Led...

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Port of the future : addressing efficiency and sustainability at the Port of Livorno with 5G

Cavalli, Laura; Lizzi, Giulia - Allmänna Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson <Stockholm> - 2020

in coastal protection and port management, issues such as scarcity of prime building locations, use of resources … key port performance indicators that can be used to monitor sustainability performance and help make business decisions … associated targets represent an authoritative global guideline to achieving sustainability across different sectors. The agenda …

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Sustainability and threshold value of public debt in Tamil Nadu

Shanmugam, K. R.; Shanmugam, K. - 2022

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Sustainability and threshold value of public debt in Karnataka

Shanmugam, K. R.; Renjith, P.S. - 2024

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Leadership cycles

Denicolò, Vincenzo; Zanchettin, Piercarlo - 2010

We study a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth that produces stochastic leadership cycles. Over a cycle, industry leaders can innovate several successive times in the same industry, gradually increasing the magnitude of their technological lead before being replaced by a new entrant....

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Opinion dynamics and wisdom under conformity

Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Kölßner, Stefan - 2014

We study a dynamic model of opinion formation in social networks. In our model, boundedly rational agents update opinions by averaging over their neighbors' expressed opinions, but may misrepresent their own opinion by conforming or counter-conforming with their neighbors. We show that an...

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Trust and manipulation in social networks

Förster, Manuel; Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2014

We investigate the role of manipulation in a model of opinion formation. Agents repeatedly communicate with their neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common issue by taking weighted averages of neighbors'...

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Leadership and international climate cooperation

Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2013

Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...

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Charismatic leaders and nation building

Assouad, Lydia - 2020

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Community leaders and the preservation of cultural traits

Prummer, Anja; Siedlarek, Jan-Peter - 2016

We explain persistent differences in cultural traits of immigrant groups with the presence of community leaders. Leaders influence the cultural traits of their community, which have an impact on the group's earnings. They determine whether a community will be more assimilated and wealthier or...

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