albertmartinez/OSDG huggingface dataset:
In June of 2013, Brazil saw a massive outbreak of public protests and demonstrations. The government‟s apathy in responding to demands for greater transparency and enhanced levels of public services, as well as increasing levels of corruption and opacity, lead to these public uprisings. This paper argued that emerging economies with a growing middle class, particularly those that do not pay heed to this emerging class and their needs, are bound to face “spring-type” events. Utilizing a case study “quadruple helix” framework, this paper conducted an institutional analysis of the Brazilian “Spring” movement. This analysis yielded a considerable set of descriptions that can enhance the way that “spring-type” events influence business, policy, and economic behavior. More specifically, this research contributed an institutional approach to scholarship on risk analysis and geo-political unrest, establishing new trajectories for future scholarship that places risk analysis in the context of international management and world political economy.
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In Chile the MoF has to approve all PPP contracts, but does not evaluate alternative options. This unit, called the Infrastructure Financing Support Unit (Mission d'appui au financement des infrastructures) also gives advise on how to structure projects from a legal and financial perspective (see Annex 1 for a discussion of the role of the French Infrastructure Financing Support Unit). Checklist for investigating the ideal delivery mode (cont.) It is offered as a guide for reflection and attempts to compress the experience of coimtries and practitioners into a checklist of key issues. There will therefore be cases, coimtries, and sectors where experiences are not sufficiently reflected in the above.
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The JFBPW incubators are members of the Jordan Innovation Centers (JIC) network coordinated by the Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO), but have no linkages with WBI networks in the region or in other countries. Such linkages would be of value for sharing information, particularly in developing standard operating procedures. It offers mentoring, training and professional development to members, advocates for policies and programmes in favour of women’s entrepreneurship, and operates four incubators for women entrepreneurs located in Casablanca (26 spaces), Rabat (7 spaces), El Jadida (4 spaces) and Tangier, it also has plans to open more incubators in other parts of Morocco.
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As for education, its beneficial effects on farmers’ ability to acquire new skills that contribute to improving their productivity are well known. The case studies on Indonesia and Zambia highlight the importance of literacy, numeracy and technical skills in farmers’ capacity to seek agricultural credit and to implement SPS and quality standards. The efficiency of extension services is likely to increase with education, which is also likely to improve farmers’ market participation perspectives.
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A new website, NHS Performs (http://www.nhsperfonns.scot/), aims to improve the accessibility, frequency and range of information on hospital performance. This is discussed further in Section 2.8. The indicators have still to be tested in practice, and it is anticipated that they will be refined over time. Each Integration Authority is required to publish an annual performance report, including infonnation about the indicators, supported by local measures and contextualising data to provide a broader picture of local performance.
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It is expected that findings from this OECD report will contribute to future debates on the topic, building on the fruitful exchanges and dialogue with the representatives from the CNRH and the CTCOB during the seminars held by the OECD delegation and the ANA in Brazil in September 2016, February 2017 and June 2017. Clearly, charging does not privatise the use of water that is an inalienable public domain good (Bronzatto and Amorim, 2012). The Water Law implies that water is a good belonging to the public domain and a limited natural resource endowed with economic value (art. The logics behind is that water is a scarce good (economically scarce in relative terms) by definition, reflecting both water depletion due to anthropogenic and natural causes, as well as multiple, alternative competitive uses, respectively in water scarce and water abundant contexts.
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They could also count as valuable assets for recruitment purposes. Selection and hiring practices still appear not very transparent and too much reliant on informal channels. Parental background still has a major influence on school choice and employment chances, so that opportunities of work engagement are not evenly distributed among school-leavers. In order to level the playing field among young people, local authorities should co-operate with the schooling system to strengthen connections with enterprises, for instance through internet portals, social media or other communication tools to manage student -employer engagement activities.
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Interpretation of the indicators should also be informed by the participation of children in education, including both the actual percentage of children not in school as well as the legal provisions for compulsory education. Regarding forced labour, it is helpful to bear in mind the national legislation regarding the prohibition, criminalisation and punishment of forced labour, including trafficking and its definition. The elimination of discrimination with respect to employment and occupation is another one of the four ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
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Poverty also rose among the working population. Indeed, not all of the poor are out of work, as the poverty rate of 10.5% among those in work demonstrates. This can be explained by the significant number of low-paid workers, many of which work less than full time. Retirees, by contrast, saw their relative poverty levels decline as median incomes fell. Comparing different household compositions, poverty rates are highest and have increased most among families with children, with families that have more children being particularly affected by poverty. The poverty line is 60% of median disposable income in each year, adjusted for household size.
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His conclusions seem to indicate a success-story. The author reports that the FCI has been successful at providing remunerative prices for wheat and rice and that the FCI reduced price volatility of wheat and rice during the period 2006-12. The author also show's that consumer prices were more stable with than without the FCI reserve policy. First, the study ignores the impact of trade policies on prices.
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It could however be expected that such a trend might worsen further as fiscal consolidation measures start to show their impact. The trend lines also highlight that changes in income inequality seem to be less directly related to the severity of the economic downturn. Break in time series: 2012 Austria and United Kingdom, 2008 France and Cyprus, Bulgaria 2006, Romania 2007. Indeed, Iceland is the best performing country although one of the most affected and the one where anchored child poverty increased the most.
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ABSTRACTIn this article, we explore how one integrated dance community engages in everyday practices of care-sharing as a form of social justice. The notion of care-sharing emerged from a performance ethnography in which 12 dancers co-created a research-based integrated dance. For this community, integrated dance is a recreational and pre-professional art practice that is inclusive of people with a wide range of embodiments and capacities, including those experiencing disability. Within this dance context, disability is not regarded as a bodily problem in need of therapy, but as a matter of social injustice. To navigate these and other forms of social injustice, dancers practised care-sharing, which involved: life-sustaining, communal acts of radical interdependence, practices of consensus-building and the sharing of discomfort, and a commitment to negotiating complex power relations. We conclude by sharing some points of learning, hoping that they may offer new perspectives on therapeutic recreation rese...
(Sustainable Development Goal: sdg16)
Despite this, comparisons between different sectors indicate that SPS and TBT arrangements may also foster trade - highlighting the difficultly in attempting to determine the distortions potentially created by such measures. In a similar vein, Winchester (2009) suggests that reforms to trading arrangements that only focus on tariff and other border measures will produce much smaller gains than if non-tariff barriers are included. For New Zealand, Winchester (2009) finds that welfare gains from agro-food trade reform including the elimination of non-tariff barriers was more than four times greater for a range of possible bilateral agreements than if only tariff barriers were removed.
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The Syrian Arab Republic and Jordan. The discussion took place as part of the panel “Cross-Border Waters and Regional Sustainability“ moderated by Gidon Bromberg. Israeli Director of Friends of the Earth Middle East. The Palestinians have suspended their side of JWC since September 2011, arguing that the committee is unable to address any water-related issue.
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For example, it can mandate that a tenant build to higher green building standards than required by law and restrict the use of the property only to certain types of clean tech or green businesses and even require wage and benefits packages and local hiring goals.97 As a landowner, a local government can use its property strategically to support broader policy goals such as gr een growth and green cluster development. For example, they can bring together university, business and community leaders to form cleantech organisations or green industry support associations. They can facilitate discussions to resolve disputes between labour and business, environmental advocates and industry, and forge compromises that lead to collaborative efforts around common goals. It is common practice for economic development, redevelopment, regeneration and revitalisation authorities to impose profit share requirements or interest rates on loans or grants invested in real estate development projects.
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The text shows the role of the high courts in the defense of the basic principles of the Constitution. It sustains that the protection also implies the promotional acting that attracts to itself  the task  of  not only preserve rights, but also perform them. From this premise, it shows the exercise of that funtion by the High Court in the Brazilian legal system and in many European constitutional courts. It also sustains that the present challenge is to give substantial basis to such rights or principles, making them capable of being supported by the Constitutional Courts or by the responsible for the constitutional jurisdiction,  supplying referential materials which legitimate the concretization of the Constitution, independent of the mediation of the ordinary legislator.
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The following are some practical examples of actions that can be implemented to improve energy efficiency. Climate resiliency should also be included to ensure that these energy efficient buildings are located away from rising sea levels, storm surges and floods, and can withstand cyclones. These could be mandatory for new homes.
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Two concluding sections then analyse the implications for the reconfiguration of care relationships within families and the reconfiguration of‘care diamonds’and social reproduction. These three dimensions are not mutually exclusive, indeed, their overlap is what makes care a complex phenomenon. The complexity deepens when we consider that care work may be paid or unpaid, be performed by women or men, and can take place within the household or in institutions such as hospitals, residential care homes, nurseries, day-care centres, social and community work settings, schools, offices and hotels. Care has become a central concern of social policy because of its crucial relationship to production, welfare regimes and social reproduction, as well as its implications for gender equality (Razavi and Hassim 2006).
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Conversely, the maximum duration of successive contracts is very short in Chile and France, while no substantial limits are found in about one-third of OECD countries37 as well as in India and South Africa (see Figure 2.7). In Belgium, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia, there is no limitation for the first contract, but cumulative time limits step in when a renewal occur, or a new contract between the same employer and employee is signed. In this case, workers are hired by an agency and temporarily assigned for work into a user firm, typically to perform temporary tasks outside the “core” business of the user firm or to enable it to cope with short-term increases in workload.
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It also is the source of raw material for a large number of domestic industries and has provided an important source of foreign exchange. Primary agriculture accounted for about 14% of national gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, down from close to 30% in 2000. But, while there has been a reduction in the share of agriculture in GDP, a commensurate reduction in its employment share has not taken place.
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One of which is managing capacity and utilisation rates in a cost efficient manner. Today many companies are not utilising holding capacities to their fullest extent, as isolated digital systems and limited visibility of capacities result in varying levels of occupancy from low utilisation rates to full capacity. By developing an open registry and transaction backbone for logistics capacities (e.g. containers), available holding capacity can be offered to a broader spectrum of customers while fewer resources would be needed to transport the same amount of goods.
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The realities of the globalized world have revolutionized traditional concepts of culture, community, and identity-so how do applied social scientists use complicated, fluid new ideas such as translocality and ethnoscape to solve pressing human problems? In this book, leading scholar/practitioners survey the development of different subfields over at least two decades, then offer concrete case studies to show how they have incorporated and refined new concepts and methods. After an introduction synthesizing anthropological practice, key theoretical concepts, and ethnographic methods, chapters examine the arenas of public health, community development, finance, technology, transportation, gender, environment, immigration, aging, and child welfare. An innovative guide to joining dynamic theoretical concepts with on-the-ground problem solving, this book will be of interest to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines who work on social change, as well as an excellent addition to graduate and undergraduate courses.
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This revolution will unfold over the coming decades with opportunities, challenges, and implications that are not yet fully known. To harness these benefits, countries will need to create conditions supportive to the deployment of next-generation network and service infrastructures. They will also have to adopt policies that are conducive to experimentation and innovation, while mitigating potential risks to information security, privacy, and employment.
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The experience of Thailand shows that a universal coverage system contributes to the affordability as well as the wide availability of contraceptives in an effective manner. Countries with a similar level of economic development as Thailand should work towards establishing national insurance schemes comprising a reproductive health package that ensures that contraceptive commodities essential to the population's welfare and the development of the country are covered. After all, contraceptive security in its broad sense of availability of a wide range of quality contraceptives is meant for all and not only for the advantaged groups of society.
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This article conceptualizes corporate accountability under international law and introduces an analytical framework translating corporate accountability into seven core elements. Using this analytical framework, it then systematically assesses four models that could be used in a future business and human rights (BHR) treaty: the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights model, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights model, the progressive model, and the transformative model. It aims to contribute to the BHR treaty negotiation process by clarifying different options and possible trade-offs between them, while taking into account political realities. Ultimately, the article argues in favour of the BHR treaty embracing a progressive model of corporate accountability, which combines ambitious development of international law with realistic prospects of state support.
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The categories in which information was gathered and classified for each suggested indicator were: 1) status of importance or applicability, 2) the focus, issue or content of indicator, 3) measurement unit, 4) description of value/s of the measurement units, 5) description or information of the frequency of measurements and the history of past measurements, 6) the possible producer or provider of the information, and 7) others aspects/problems/future perspectives, and if used in another sector. In table 1, suggested indicators for nature-based recreation are presented. For these two indicators, there was quantitative and up-to-date data available at the national level.
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The paper proposed management instruments to promote efficiency and profitability in the fishing fleet. The proposals in the White Paper were also a continuation of the Structural Quota (SQS) System implemented in the coastal fleet in 2004 and the SQS in the ocean going fleet implemented from 2005, but with some modifications. A time limit of 20 years on the structural quotas was re-introduced (25 years for previously-allocated quotas), and the SQS in the coastal fleet was introduced for vessels between 11 and 15 metres from 2008.
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In addition, there are some growing efforts to mainstream women into existing angel groups. Both approaches are important for building a greater pipeline of female investors. In their 2010 white paper, “Women and European Early Stage Investing”, the European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds, and other Early Stage Market Players (EBAN) proposed a number of ways to address the gap. They include conducting further research, developing best practices, raising awareness, promoting professional standards and codes of conduct that encourage greater diversity, and building networks in the female investment community.
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It is important to ensure provision of SDS throughout the supply chain so that all downstream users, including those in SMEs, will receive them. In 2009, Colombia established a Single Environmental Registry (RUA), which focuses to a large extent on collecting information from companies on the use of natural resources. Some information on releases to the environment is also requested.
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Firstly, remittances and other benefits for the household and the community make the benefits of female emigration more obvious, which in turn creates incentives to increase the women's ability to migrate through improvement in women's access to opportunities, resources and power. For example, women who send remittances gain more respect within their family and community (Jolly and Reeves, 2005). Moreover, parents who rely on their daughters' remittances are less likely to force them to return home to marry (Temin et al.,
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This is the due diligence obligation under international law.16 Specifically articulated in the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, States are required to exercise due diligence to prevent, investigate and, in accordance with national legislation, punish acts of violence against women whether those actions are perpetrated by the State or by private persons. An effective criminal justice response prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability. It includes the opportunity to access redress for violence in a timely manner, the avoidance of re-victimization, and the enforcement of legal remedies, including appropriate punishment for the perpetrators.
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In this article, we seek to advance scholarship on the origins and consequences of policy devolution by analyzing state decisions to give local authorities control over welfare policy. The first part of our analysis explores the political forces that systematically influence state decisions to cede policy control to lower-level jurisdictions. In this context, we propose a general Racial Classification Model of how race influences social policy choice. Our findings support this model as well as social control perspectives on welfare provision. Building on these results, we then show how modest but consistent racial effects on policy choices concatenate to produce large disparities in the overall policy regimes that racial groups encounter in the federal system. The empirical findings illuminate the fundamental role that federalism plays in the production of contemporary racial disparities and in the recent turn toward neoliberal and paternalist policies in American poverty governance.
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This section documents if and how water entitlements are defined and administered. It covers the main types of arrangements: informal, administered regimes (priority ranking), based on economic instruments (prices, markets). Building on the previous section, this includes more detailed information on the characteristics of entitlements (e.g. possibility to trade, lease or transfer) and the possibility to restrict new entrants. This concerns unplanned events or “shocks” that negatively impact on the water resource.
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Abstract Recent scholarship has shown how, in her political writing, Mary Wollstonecraft developed a troubling evaluation of femininity – one that ironically brought her sexual politics into line with those she attacked in Edmund Burke's account of the French Revolution. This article identifies a different contradiction in her feminism. It argues that her challenge to the lingering conservatism in Enlightenment philosophy relied on a model of social history that put reasoning women at the center of a “civilized” culture threatened by a “savage” periphery. It suggests that Wollstonecraft's strong critique of the contradiction in Enlightenment political thought, which saw women as lacking in civic character, is organized rhetorically around the contrast between polished civil subject and violent savage. Because this distinction rests to a large extent on the assumption that domestic virtue is a central feature of more advanced societies, her argument finally locates women in a morally invigorated domestic s...
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