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{"title":"Thresholds of Income Inequality that Mitigate the Role of Gender Inclusive Education in Promoting Gender Economic Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"S. Asongu, N. Odhiambo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3496346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3496346","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to provide the thresholds of inequality that should not be exceeded if gender inclusive education is to enhance gender inclusive formal economic participation in sub-Saharan Africa.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments and data from 42 countries during the period 2004-2014.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The following findings are established. First, inclusive tertiary education unconditionally promotes gender economic inclusion, while the interaction between tertiary education and inequality is unfavourable to gender economic inclusion. Second, a Gini coefficient that nullifies the positive incidence of inclusive tertiary education on female labour force participation is 0.562. Second, the Gini coefficient and Palma ratio that crowd-out the negative unconditional effects of inclusive tertiary education on female unemployment are 0.547 and 6.118, respectively. Third, a 0.578 Gini coefficient, a 0.680 Atkinson index and a 6.557 Palma ratio are critical masses that wipe out the positive unconditional effects of inclusive tertiary education on female employment. The findings associated with lower levels of education are not significant.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000As the main policy implication, income inequality should not be tolerated above the established thresholds for gender inclusive education to promote gender inclusive formal economic participation. Other implications are discussed in the light of sustainable development goals.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study complements the existing literature by providing inequality thresholds that should not be exceeded for gender inclusive education to promote the involvement of women in the formal economic sector.\u0000","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116431395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impacte de la mobilité organisationnelle sur l’implication au travail dans les centrales hydro électriques camerounaises (Impacts of Organizational Mobility on Work Involvement in Cameroon's Hydroelectric Power Plants)","authors":"Tisban Nyemeg","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3247644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3247644","url":null,"abstract":"<b>French Abstract:</b> Dans un contexte de mutations et d’innovations permanentes, les compétences individuelles jouent un rôle clé dans les stratégies organisationnelles. La prise en compte de ces compétences, modifie forcement la gestion des carrières, en faisant intervenir la notion de mobilité qui peut être horizontale, géographique ou même verticale. La mobilité permet de mettre en adéquation les besoins de l’entreprise et les désirs ou souhaits des salariés. Elle permet également de lutter contre la routine, en permettant l’enrichissement des tâches, le transfert des compétences et surtout le développement de l’employabilité. C’est donc dire qu’une mauvaise gestion de ces mobilités peut être à l’origine d’une baisse d’implication au travail. Cette étude tente d’apporter des éclaircissements à cette problématique. Nous partons de l’hypothèse générale selon la quelle, la mobilité organisationnelle influence de manière significative l’implication au travail dans les centrales hydro électrique Camerounaises. <b>English Abstract:</b> In a context of constant change and innovation, individual skills play a key role in organizational strategies. Taking these skills into account necessarily modifies career management by introducing the notion of mobility that can be horizontal, geographical or even vertical. Mobility makes it possible to match the needs of the company with the desires or wishes of employees. It also helps to combat the routine, allowing the enrichment of tasks, the transfer of skills and especially the development of employability. This means that a mismanagement of these mobilities can be at the origin of a decrease of work involvement. This study attempts to clarify this problem. We start from the general hypothesis according to which organizational mobility has a significant influence on work involvement in Cameroon hydroelectric power stations.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121438983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land Consolidation, Specialization, and Household Diets: Evidence from Rwanda","authors":"Davide Del Prete, Léopold Ghins, Emiliano Magrini, K. Pauw","doi":"10.1016/J.FOODPOL.2018.12.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FOODPOL.2018.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132788449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Applying the Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment Meaningfully to Climate Disruption","authors":"J. Dernbach, R. McKinstry","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3141354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3141354","url":null,"abstract":"The Pennsylvania Constitution contains a unique Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA), which recognizes an individual right to “clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment.” The ERA also includes a public trust element that makes “Pennsylvania’s public natural resources . . . the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.” It makes the Commonwealth the “trustee of these resources,” requiring it to “conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” Recent decisions by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (the Court) in Robinson Township v. Commonwealth and Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation v. Commonwealth provide significant support for Pennsylvania regulations to address the threat of climate disruption posed by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve net zero carbon emissions by the middle of this century.\u0000\u0000In light of the threats that climate disruption poses to Pennsylvania’s public natural resources, the text of the ERA, and the principles articulated in those recent cases, we argue that a stable climate (a climate that has not been disrupted by anthropogenic emissions of GHGs) should be considered protected by the rights recognized by the ERA, and the public trust duties it creates. We argue that these rights and duties require Pennsylvania to employ regulatory measures to reduce GHG emissions to the level warranted by the social cost of carbon and to achieve carbon neutrality (net zero emissions) by mid-century. Further, we argue that there are judicially recognizable standards to compel the Commonwealth to exercise its existing authority to limit GHG emissions. In light of existing legislative authority, the obligations imposed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, and the federal Clean Air Act, we make the case that this regulatory program should take the form of an economy-wide cap-and-trade program providing for the auction of allowances with a reserve price based on the social cost of carbon and additional measures to prevent leakage and a cap reaching carbon neutrality by mid-century.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130552124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Институциональные рамки обеспечения конкурентоспособности вузов (Institutional Framework of Higher Education Institutions Competitiveness Maintenance)","authors":"T. Ignatova, Karina G. Nemashkalova, D. Yambushev","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3080363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3080363","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> В статье конкурентоспособность вузов рассматривается как система, обеспечивающая превосходство, проявляющееся в характеристиках качества образовательных услуг, уровне удовлетворенности потребителей и заинтересованных сторон, общественном и профессионально-общественном признании и возможностях эффективной реализации потенциала в интересах устойчивого развития организации высшего образования. Авторы считают, что основой анализа обеспечения конкурентоспособности вузов является концепция устойчивого развития как одно из направлений институциональной теории и прикладная концепция системы менеджмента качества. <b>English Abstract:</b> In the article the competitiveness of universities is seen as a system that provides excellence, which manifests itself in the quality characteristics of education services, the level of customer and stakeholders satisfaction, public and professional recognition and opportunities for effective implementation of the potential for sustainable development of the organization of higher education. The authors believe that the basis of the analysis of maintenance of competitiveness of higher education institutions is the concept of sustainable development as one of the areas of institutional theory and application of quality management system concept.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131769095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Risk Allocation for Infrastructure Projects by (PPPs) - (Under Environmental Management and Risk Assessment Mechanisms)","authors":"Ahmed M. Selim, Pasent H. A. Yousef, Mohamed R. Hagag","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3164264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3164264","url":null,"abstract":"Infrastructure projects are considered one of the pillars for achieving urban sustainable development socially, economically and environmentally, as they reflect the progress of countries. Due to the importance and high cost of these projects and as a result of the insufficiency of available balanced funding of governments particularly in developing countries, therefore, many governments implement such projects through partnership with the partners especially the private sector (PPP) to ensure high quality service and low cost advanced technology by activating the principle of value for money and through competition between local and international private sector companies in a framework of transparency. \u0000This paper discusses the contractual relations between parties of partnerships in these projects and the mechanism of distributing the risks to parties during the different phases of the project by assigning risk indicators at relative weight through analyzing the probability of occurrence of these risks using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and taking in consideration Environmental management mechanisms as part of the risk indicators to ensure the success of the project in an environmental framework that achieves the concept of sustainable development and its economic, social and environmental aspects.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128151023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping Climate Justice in the Twenty-first Century","authors":"Julia M. Puaschunder","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3063580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3063580","url":null,"abstract":"Climate justice accounts for the most challenging global governance goal. In the current climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, high and low income households but also developed and underdeveloped countries as well as various overlapping generations are affected differently. This article maps international climate change mitigation and adaptation regimes in order to derive fair climate stability implementation strategies. Based on insights on the current endeavor to finance climate change mitigation and adaptation around the globe, a 3-dimensional climate justice approach will be introduced to share the burden of climate change fair within society. First, climate justice within a country should pay tribute to the fact that low- and high income households share the same burden proportional to their dispensable income, for instance enabled through a progressive carbon taxation. Those who caused climate change could be regulated to bear a higher cost through carbon tax in combination with retroactive billing through inheritance tax. Secondly, fair climate change burden sharing between countries comprises of argumentations that those countries benefiting more from a stable climate, hence those with a larger landscape or higher population, who have more access to climate than others, should also bear a higher burden of climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. Countries that reap benefit from a warming earth should be obliged to finance international aid for those who are impacted negatively by climate change, e.g., climate refugees. In addition, building on case and international law, those countries that have better means of protection or conservation of the common climate should also face a greater responsibility to protect the earth. Thirdly, climate justice over time is proposed in an innovative climate change burden sharing strategy. Innovative compensation schemes to share the burden of climate change with bonds help weight the burden of climate change more equally between today’s and tomorrow’s society. A climate tax-and-bonds mix could subsidize the current world industry for transitioning to green solutions and future generations, who will enjoy a less carbon intensive industry and more stable climate but should repay those bonds. Thereby the current generation is advised to mitigate climate change financed through bonds to remain financially as well off as without mitigation while improving environmental well-being of future generations. This respective intergenerational tax-and-transfer policy-mix could turn climate change mitigation into a Pareto-improving strategy. All these efforts should alleviate the contemporary global governance predicament that seems to pit today’s generation against future world inhabitants in a trade-off of economic growth versus sustainability. Deriving respective policy recommendations for the wider climate change community is aimed at ensuring to share the burden but also the benefits of cli","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123931082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Факторы, влияющие на формирование и развитие эффективной рабочей силы в условиях рыночных отношений. (Formation and Development of An Effective Labor Force in a Market Economy)","authors":"Н.А. Касымов, Irada Nabiyeva","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3499851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3499851","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract:Резюме Целью исследования является выявление ключевых факторов, которые непосредственно влияют на формирование и развитие эффективной рабочей силы в рыночных условиях. С этой целью были показаны анализ и влияние на эффективное использование человеческих ресурсов таких факторов, как квалифицированный персонал, уровень заработной платы и условия труда на рабочем месте, профсоюзная деятельность, демографическая ситуация в стране, государственное регулирование рынка труда, уровень жизни работников и т. д. Основное внимание в исследовании уделяется ключевым аспектам эффективного формирования рабочей силы и ее устойчивого развития - установление отношений с коллегами и руководством, стратегия управления, профессиональное развитие, принятие автономных решений и самореализация работника с творческой стороны. Следует отметить, что в целом должны быть повышены такие возможности, как образование и уровень жизни в стране, материальная обеспеченность, предложения по поводу повышения квалификации новых кадров, условия для воспроизводства рабочей силы, специализация. English Abstract: The purpose of the research is to identify key factors that directly affect the formation and development of effective workforce in market conditions. Qualified personnel, salary levels and labor conditions in the workplace, trade union activity, demographic situation in the country, state regulation of the labor market, employee living standards, analysis of other factors and their impact on the efficient use of human resources were shown for this purpose. The study focuses on the key aspects of effective workforce formation and sustainable development - relationships with co-workers and managers, management strategies, professional development, autonomous decision-making and self-creativity. It is noted that in general, such opportunities as education and living standards in the country, material security, experience suggestions for new cadres, conditions for recycling of workforce and specialization should be increased.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124386578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a Typology of Intermediaries in Transitions: A Systematic Review","authors":"Paula Kivimaa, W. Boon, S. Hyysalo, L. Klerkx","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3034188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3034188","url":null,"abstract":"Intermediary actors have been proposed as key catalysts that speed up change towards more sustainable socio-technical systems. Research on this topic has gradually gained traction since 2009, but has been complicated by the inconsistency regarding what intermediaries are in the context of such transitions and which activities they focus on, or should focus on. This paper aims to bring more clarity to the topic of intermediaries in transitions, providing a typology that, beyond functions of intermediaries, is sensitive to different levels and phases of transitions, and the origin and emergence of intermediary actors. Based on a systematic review of academic scholarly articles, the paper identifies five different categories of intermediary actors that play a role in transitions based on their level of operation and origin, being insider/outsider, the level of agency, and the degree of neutrality. Some intermediaries are specifically set up to facilitate transitions, while others grow into the role of an intermediary during the process of sociotechnical change. On the basis of the study we argue that systemic and niche intermediaries are most crucial forms of intermediary actors in transitions, which should be also considered in planning future innovation governance frameworks. The paper further elaborates how intermediation occurs in pre-development, take-off, acceleration and embedding, and destabilisation phases. We note the lack of literature about intermediary activities in different phases of transition, in particular with respect to the acceleration and embedding phase. We, thus, suggest what kind of transition intermediaries are needed to better support the acceleration and embedding of innovations contributing to long-term sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127038719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Del Gobierno Electrónico Al Big Data: La Digitalización De La Gestión Pública En Colombia Frente Al Control Territorial (From Electronic Government to Big Data: Digitalizing Public Management in Colombia in the Face of Territorial Control)","authors":"Miguel Gomis-Balestreri","doi":"10.18601/16578651.N21.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18601/16578651.N21.03","url":null,"abstract":"Despite its internal problems, Colombia is one of the most forward-moving Latin American countries on the matter of electronic government. The reforms generated by the implementation of policies aligned with the Millenieum Development Goals – mdgs - and Sustainable Development Goals – sdgs - (mdg-sdg), as well as the peace process, have led to an improvement in the Colombian territorial capacity to intervene. In fact, digitalization has allowed for traditionally disconnected or far removed citizens to be reached by their designated territorial administrations. However, reservations arise about the consistency and coherence of this strategy. There exists a question about how the digitalization of the Colombian public sector affects and is affected by the State´s need to strengthen its physical presence in the territory. Taking into account this context, this exploratory analysis seeks to understand what advances and problems underlie in the reconstruction of the relationship between the State and its citizens, in particular through the analysis of digitization coordinated by the administration based in Bogota.","PeriodicalId":296234,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Sustainable Development (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132479615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}