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found to improve incentives and resource governance. Approaches which build in rewards for non-market benefits and penalties … for negative spill-overs have achieved success. To better prepare for the future, Canada' s water governance institutions …
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Can fiscal transparency, accountability and macro-fiscal stabilization be imposed by adopting a fiscal responsibility … world, this paper concludes that FRLs enhance fiscal transparency and accountability. However, the adoption of a FRL for …
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Mid-long term projections of the Stability Programs (SP) are elaborated to simulate the burden each active citizen or each worker will have to bear for financing, via pay-as-you-go, public health care provisions and public pensions. It is worth mentioning that projections in the (SP) are those...
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to the poor. It addresses the issue of accountability as it relates to civil society, defining "moral' accountability as … an organization's accountability towards the people it was established to help, and procedural accountability as internal … between "moral' and "procedural' accountability applies primarily to non-governmental organizations, a subset of civil society …
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institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating …
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We surveyed sustainable development indicators (SDIs) adopted by 28 national governments, regions, and international organisations and compiled them into a database. The aims of this study were to understand the elements of sustainable development (SD), examine SDIs developed in certain fields...
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From the perspective of voluntary disclosure, this paper examines empirically the impact of specific corporate financial factors on environment voluntary disclosure. Using a sample of 138 chemical industry listed companies in China, we find that more and more companies disclose environment...
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Environmental policy has intensively focused on information-based instruments that seek to change agents' behaviour through information provision. This information provision is generally considered as likely to ultimately improve environmental quality. We suggest a new and complementary way to...
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Environmental policy has intensively focused on information-based instruments that seek to change agents' behaviour through information provision. This information provision is generally considered as likely to ultimately improve environmental quality. We suggest a new and complementary way to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563676