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Almost everyone can agree that the original connection of intellectual property to trade was for purely economically instrumental purposes but few would have predicted its other consequences, particularly the reshaped relationship of intellectual property’s innovation mandate to the production...
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Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or individuals displaced in the context of disasters and climate change, lack international legal recognition and protection. In 2020, an international tribunal acknowledged in...
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Do individuals trust experts' advice? Does the sector represented by these experts matter for trust and compliance? Do individuals prefer the public or the private sector for large-scale responses to events such as the pandemic? We answer these questions by means of a large-scale survey on a...
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A weather beaten economy has become a wake up call. The International Energy Agency predicts that carbon emissions will rise 130 percent and oil demand will rise 70 percent by 2050. A sound energy policy that addresses climate change relies upon widespread transfer and implementation of...
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Corruption is usually viewed as an impediment to investment and growth. However, China's experience suggests that the … development. But since the start of a far-reaching anti-corruption war, they have stopped doing their job and as a consequence …, investment is delayed and the economy takes a hit. This paper examines the relationship between corruption and public …
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Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to … measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework on the relationship between corruption and … development. The paper demonstrates how the impact of corruption on economic development (ED) might vary substantially from … concepts from corruption and development. A synthesis of these two concepts leads to the development of the conceptual …
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