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Neo-humanism and COVID-19: opportunities for a socially and environmentally sustainable world

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021

. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …

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We already live in a degrowth world, and we do not like it

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" - a reduction in GDP in advanced economies - to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth - a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates,...

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Climate technology entrepreneurship : a primer

Naudé, Wim - 2025

a difference to the world’s climate change predicament. Hence, climate technology entrepreneurship is no panacea for … climate change and ecological overshoot caused by human activity. On its own it will not save the world. …

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Is a policy of free movement of workers sustainable?

Picard, Pierre M.; Worrall, Timothy - 2014

This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income...

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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011

world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other … numbers and aggregation ; environment and development ; environment and trade ; smart development ; sustainability …

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The effect of firm-level investment on inequality and poverty around the world

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Watson, Ethan D.; Yildiz, Serhat - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively associated with various measures of income inequality. This...

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Identifying the poor : accounting for household economies of scale in global poverty estimates

Jolliffe, Dean; Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi - 2022

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in …

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Melancholy hues : the futility of green growth and degrowth, and the inevitability of societal collapse

Naudé, Wim - 2023

kind of economy, which could be as qualitatively different from the current global economy as the industrial world differed … from the hunter-gatherer world. …

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Social audits and MGNREGA delivery : lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - 2014

In spite of widespread acclaims of social audits as low-cost and powerful participatory tools that can bolster awareness and improve public service delivery, a key policy question is what such audits have achieved so far. Using a unique panel data set assembled from official social audit...

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The hidden costs of choice in the labor market

Au, Pak Hung; Li, King King; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Rong - 2023

Freedom of choice is often thought to improve efficiency. We experimentally investigate the effect of giving workers a choice between compensation schemes with and without a CSR component (CSR/NoCSR) on labor market participation decision and work performance, compared to the alternative of...

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