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This study addresses the issue of sustainability reporting by corporations, and the framework(s) and guidelines used in the preparation of those annual reports. It takes as its starting point the UN Sustainable Development Goal 12: "Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns", with...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged global economies with unparalleled negative shock. Asia and Latin America have gone through a number of financial crises in the last few decades but they have addressed those crises rather differently, leading to different growth trajectories after the...
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In this current era of the fourth industrial revolution, both the negative and positive effects of financial inclusion raise the question of whether digital finance can be a solution for financial stability through attaining sustainable economic growth or not. Hence, considering the aftermath of...
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The UN's Sustainable Development Goals in their generalized form need to be further reflected in order to identify synergies and trade-offs between their (sub-)targets, and to apply them to concrete nations and regions. Explorative, qualitative cause and effect modeling could serve as a tool for...
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, substitution of industries and sufficiency of consumption. We conclude that decoupling and green growth will not realise …
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habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how … exhibit less resilience. We find no evidence that existing indices of community resilience moderate impacts. Our conclusion is …
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How do social changes, new technologies or new management trends affect communication work? A team of researchers at Leipzig University and the University of Potsdam (Germany) observed new developments in related disciplines. As a result, the five most important trends for corporate...
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This report analyses the role that external shock financing can play in addressing the adverse impacts of external shocks in L&MICs. It summarises the growth impact of external shocks, maps out existing external shock financing facilities and instruments in the global financing architecture, and...
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practices contribute to a comparatively high resilience towards intense rain events and flooding. In the temperate zone with its …
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tremendous amount of resources and brain power to build an excellent knowledge base about fragility and resilience, no such … efforts were made to help understand the process and stages for a successful transition from fragility to resilience. The … road map for a successful transition from fragility to resilience with measurable stage/sign posts and benchmarks to …
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