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Energy Security, Green Job Creation, and Youth Innovation
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2013
Global energy demand is likely to increase by 45 percent by 2030. Climate change will threaten existing employment and necessitate new green jobs. Funding has gone towards such renewable energy technologies as wind and solar; such fuel economy options as second-generation hybrids, plug-in...
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Emerging Law Addressing Climate Change and Water
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015
The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196020
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Data Spaces and Democracy
Calzada, Igor - 2019
AI is now an important component of sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, public administration and transportation, and is helping to address major challenges such as ageing and climate change. However, there is currently a lack of transparency in algorithmic governance systems, and this is...
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The effects of federal regulations on corruption in US States
Dincer, Oguzhan; Gunalp, Burak - In: European journal of political economy 65 (2020), pp. 1-11
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Why Adopt a Federal Constitution? And Why Decentralize? – Determinants Based on a New Dataset
Gutmann, Jerg - 2017
Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting … important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component … evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining …
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Why adopt a federal constitution? : and why decentralize? : determinants based on a new dataset
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017
Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting … important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component … evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668291
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Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World
Shobe, William - 2014
Climate change policy analysis has focused almost exclusively on national policy and even on harmonizing climate policies across countries, implicitly assuming that harmonization of climate policies at the subnational level would be mandated or guaranteed. We argue that the design and...
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The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment : firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities
Reyes, José-Daniel; Roberts, Mark; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 1, pp. 15-28
Using firm-level data covering 709 cities in 128 countries, we examine the role of a comprehensive list of business and institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic protection (with corruption as an element),...
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Investor-State Disputes and the TTIP – Is it a New Challenge for Corporate Responsibility?
Waśniewski, Krzysztof - 2014
In the broad context of responsible management, and corporate responsibility, the present paper studies the general issue of conflicts between private investors, and governments, with a particular focus on the investor-state dispute settlement through international arbitration. On the grounds of...
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Fiscal centralization : a remedy for corruption?
Rosselló Villalonga, Joan - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 4, pp. 457-474
The empirical evidence on the relationship between political decentralization and corruption is far from clear. We develope a model that analizes the relationship between decentralization and corruption and show how cost–benefit calculations can lead public administrations to tolerate a...
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