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The expansion of marine protected areas (MPAs) is a core focus of global conservation efforts, with the "30x30" initiative to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 serving as a prominent example of this trend. This paper examines a series of proposed MPA network expansions of various sizes and...
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The design of the power market determines how the sector can address complex economic, social, environmental, and engineering challenges to deliver sustainable and reliable electricity at least cost to consumers. This is no simple task, as supply and demand must be balanced every second,...
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The three major players in the global economy, the United States, the European Union, and China, have been designing climate mitigation policies that will help reduce their carbon emissions but will also likely reshape developing countries' trade, prices, and access to technology. This paper...
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This paper estimates the impact of bilateral labor arrangements on migration between two countries. It uses comprehensive data on bilateral migration and bilateral labor agreements across all country pairs for each decade from 1960 to 2020, and employs an empirical specification with a rich set...
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The information and communications technology sector has undergone a dynamic process of globalization and fragmentation …, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Trade Organization, Government of Vietnam, and Vietnamese industry …
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This paper presents a procedure to construct an asymmetric fan chart of risks around global growth forecasts. The distribution of risks around global growth forecasts is estimated by weighting information extracted from option pricing and survey-based measures of risk factors of global growth....
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The authors contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … globalization (at both the country and city level) do matter for city-level performance in terms of access and quality of delivery …
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transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial implications and … growing importance. But financial globalization has taken shape via different forms over time. This paper examines two …
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One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and … poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country … developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world …
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