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other cities, not only bilaterally but also multilaterally. There are clear symptoms of the crisis of multilateralism that …
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Purpose This paper aims to discuss the recent emergence of multilateral forums for African development. By focusing on the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) led by the Japanese Government, the paper considers key issues and challenges that this new type of...
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a specific focus on North-South preferential trade agreements (PTAs); advance a new mechanism of how first-order, i ….e. Southern countries’ first, North-South PTAs can affect the outcomes of second-order, i.e. Southern countries’ subsequent, North …-South PTA negotiations. It introduces the concept of “first-order” and “second-order” North-South PTAs to show that the “order …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the question: What shall we measure? and offers preliminary answers. Data for innovation management and policy must be valid, reliable, relevant and actionable. Design and approach – The paper examines trends within finance, environment and...
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Analyses the influence of the use of Spanish and of regional languages in consumers and homes of five bilingual regions of Spain: Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and Valencia. After eliminating the effects of social class and of habitat, a fair number of significant...
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This essay explores the dialectics of media, by considering the socially reproductive and transformative function of social media from a political economic perspective. The authors claim that while media have consistently generated aspirations and fear of social change, their powerful capability...
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This article aims to interrogate the phenomenon of “entrepreneurial journalism” – a trend in teaching journalism in post-secondary schools as well as an approach to journalism production to understand changes to the field that have emerged due to digitization and whether they represent a...
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Abstract How do governments answer to the demands of their electorate for prosperity and protection from the vagaries of the market place, if governments have pledged to steer away from protective interventions in markets? This tension is what motivates this timely little book, edited by Ben...
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Abstract To control tailpipe pollution, governments often use environmental product standards and consumption taxes in conjunction (for example, the use of fuel economy standards and gasoline taxes to restrict automobile pollution in the US). Further, the choice of standards and consumption...
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