The management of tanning effluents is a real problem for leather-producing countries. Therefore, the treatment solution search for this potentially toxic industrial wastewater constitutes a priority. In this study, the evaluation of the toxic potential of untreated effluent of the tannery of...

This paper suggests explaining the main important role of new economicinformation providing competitive advantages which help economic development. It highlightsa new ‘intelligent model» which produces and chooses the right competitive information, as aresult of informational innovation...

Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries...

Politics must address multiple problems simultaneously. In an ideal world, political competition would force parties to adopt priorities that reflect the voters' true concerns. In reality, parties can run their campaigns in such a way as to manipulate voters' priorities. This phenomenon, known...

Monetary valuation techniques are often used for evaluating the effect of a change in ecosystem services on components of human wellbeing, even though they face several drawbacks. This paper seeks to reconcile monetary valuation techniques with methods that address ecosystem-economy interactions...

Why do some countries adopt exogenous rules into their domestic law when those laws do not align with the country’s specific interests? This article draws on the policy diffusion literature to identify four causal mechanisms that are hypothesized to give rise to those transplants in the case...