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The land-use land-cover change–emerging infectious disease nexus reconsidered
Ore Koren and Luis Fernando Chaves
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BioScience
BioScience, biaf045, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf045
Published: 16 April 2025
... complex socioecological phenomena such as the LULC–infectious disease nexus. One Health infectious disease deforestation economic development armed conflict Anthropogenic behaviors are recognized as key drivers of emerging infectious diseases (Celli 1933 , Levins et al. 1994 , Brooks et al. 2023...
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Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Raquel Fernández and others
Oxford Open Economics, Volume 4, Issue Supplement_1, 2025, Pages i55–i76, https://doi.org/10.1093/ooec/odae013
Published: 03 March 2025
... education and economic development returns to education Education is a crucial asset for a country’s economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct impact on income and economic growth via the accumulation of human capital, it is also a critical ingredient in producing an informed...
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Model determination for high-dimensional longitudinal data with missing observations: an application to microfinance data
Lotta Rüter and Melanie Schienle
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, qnae144, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnae144
Published: 20 February 2025
... economic development microfinance stability selection and multiple imputation in lasso Helmholtz Association 10.13039/501100009318 KA1-Co-10 In the construction of the balanced panel, we select the considered timing and time span with consecutively available MFIs such that it yields the maximum...
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Putting Countries on the Map? Pastoral Visits of John Paul II and International Trade
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Alexander Popov
The Economic Journal, ueaf016, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf016
Published: 18 February 2025
... of Catholics following a Pastoral visit, leading to a non-negligible increase in aggregate exports. The biggest beneficiaries in terms of increased trade are visited countries that are at lower stages of economic development and have relatively fewer Catholics and relatively weaker trade links. The effect...
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Capital nationality and long-run economic development
Guilherme Klein Martins
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 95–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beae041
Published: 22 November 2024
... cited. Abstract This article reviews different literature strands and performs empirical tests to identify new stylized facts on how capital ownership, particularly its nationality, relates to long-run economic development. The results indicate that low- and middle-income countries with larger foreign...
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Bringing Capacity Back In: Paradiplomacy and Sub-State Government Internationalization in the Global Economy
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Lucia Kovacikova
Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 55, Issue 1, Winter 2025, Pages 174–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjae039
Published: 03 October 2024
... establish offices abroad for international economic development, while others do not? This article focuses on the paradiplomatic policy of sub-state government internationalization (SGI) that allows sub-state governments to build international networks abroad to promote greater trade, investment...
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Hale Utar
The World Bank Economic Review, lhae037, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhae037
Published: 11 September 2024
... pronounced where the high demand for drugs from wealthier nations meets with weaker institutions of the developing world, often resulting in violence that lacks clearly defined actors and boundaries. The resulting violence may further hinder economic development by distorting incentive mechanisms...
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How India can reach net zero: a strategy for 2025–35
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Montek S Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 40, Issue 2, Summer 2024, Pages 350–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grae016
Published: 12 June 2024
.... climate change mitigation energy transition renewables economic development just transition middle-income countries It is now well recognized that global warming due to human activities is causing climate change and this poses a very serious threat to all countries, especially developing countries...
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What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’
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Ann M Eisenberg
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2024, Pages 425–430, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsae008
Published: 30 April 2024
... geography law and rurality infrastructure sustainable development energy law extractive industries community economic development Socioeconomically distressed rural regions are often labelled as ‘left behind’. But what does it mean to be ‘left behind?’ Social science scholarship has begun to address...
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Equitable infrastructure: Achieving resilient systems and restorative justice through policy and research innovation
Jason P Giovannettone and others
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PNAS Nexus
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 5, May 2024, pgae157, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae157
Published: 15 April 2024
... items, we recommend a certification system—referred to as Social, Environmental, and Economic Development (SEED)—to train infrastructure engineers and planners and ensure attentiveness to gaps that exist within and dynamically interact across each tier of the proposed framework. Through the framework...
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Documenting Decentralization: Empirical Evidence on Administrative Unit Proliferation from Uganda
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Isabelle Cohen
The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 38, Issue 4, November 2024, Pages 772–795, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhae008
Published: 09 March 2024
... have more per capita frontline workers, but appear to have worse quality infrastructure and lower economic development. The study also presents suggestive evidence that administrative capacity decreases for newly formed districts post-split. These findings demonstrate the importance of considering...
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Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected
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Kenan Fikri
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 249–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad048
Published: 23 January 2024
... geographic inequality economic development social capital cities rural development public policy The ranks of left-behind places have only grown over the past few decades, as a long wave of regional convergence gave way to an era of regional divergence ( Barro and Sala-i-Martin, 1992 ; Ganong and Shoag...
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Territorial identity and left-behind places: evidence from the central Italian Apennines from a time perspective
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Gabriele Morettini and Fabiano Compagnucci
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 117–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad049
Published: 11 January 2024
... and examined how they reacted to external shocks in two subsequent periods (1951–1981 and 1981–2011). The results suggest the changing importance of the cognitive, cultural and relational domains in coping with the different phases of Italian economic development. left-behind places territorial identity...
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Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?
Adele Whelan and others
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 59–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad036
Published: 30 October 2023
... that existing policies, which traditionally employs a simplistic urban/rural dichotomy, lacks effective targeting, and would benefit from adopting a more precise spatial perspective. social inclusion urban disadvantage community economic development jobless household lone parents disability homelessness...
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Can infrastructure help ‘left behind’ places ‘catch up?’ Theorizing the role of built infrastructure in regional development
Grete Gansauer and others
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Volume 17, Issue 2, July 2024, Pages 393–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad032
Published: 12 October 2023
... account for such dynamics if infrastructure interventions are to prove generative for regional development. spatial inequality economic development periphery uneven development place-based policy capital improvement projects U.S. Department of Agriculture 10.13039/100000199 2021-09489...
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How platform businesses mobilize their users and allies: Corporate grassroots lobbying and the Airbnb ‘movement’ for deregulation
Luke Yates
Socio-Economic Review, Volume 21, Issue 4, October 2023, Pages 1917–1943, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad028
Published: 19 June 2023
... economy, corporate political activity and socioeconomic change. platform economy corporate grassroots lobbying sharing economy corporate political activity Airbnb astroturfing regulation Uber D16 collaborative consumption O economic development innovation technological change growth In making...
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Impacts of Temporary Migration on Development in Origin Countries
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Laurent Bossavie and Çağlar Özden
The World Bank Research Observer, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2023, Pages 249–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkad003
Published: 17 April 2023
... of permanent migration on destination countries, evidence on the effects of temporary migration on origin countries has grown over the past decade. This paper highlights that the economic development impacts, especially on low- and middle-income origin countries, are complex, dynamic, context-specific...
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Forest Service: Insights for Local Job Creation and Equity from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
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Susan Charnley and others
Journal of Forestry, Volume 121, Issue 3, May 2023, Pages 282–291, https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvad009
Published: 10 April 2023
... quality, the meaning of equity in local job creation, and characteristics of today’s forest management businesses and workforces. community economic development Wildfire Crisis Strategy federal land management United States Study Implications The Forest Service can learn from past experiences...
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Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
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Felipe Barrera-Osorio and others
The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 37, Issue 3, August 2023, Pages 409–436, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad007
Published: 13 March 2023
... labor-market outcomes of women. human capital occupational skills Latin America returns to education education and economic development The random assignment of applicants to intensive vocational-training programs emphasizing either technical or soft skills directly tests how labor-market dynamics...
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Spatial Analysis of Forest Product Manufacturers in North Carolina
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Olakunle E Sodiya and others
Forest Science, Volume 69, Issue 1, February 2023, Pages 24–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/forsci/fxac045
Published: 17 December 2022
.../pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) Abstract Spatial analysis of industrial locations is an important tool for cluster-based economic development that helps identify hot spots for attracting new businesses in a particular region. The forest product industry in North Carolina (NC) is the top...