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About: London School of Economics and Political Science is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Population. The organization has 8759 authors who have published 35017 publications receiving 1436302 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the empirical literature on the impacts of environmental regulations on firms' competitiveness as measured by trade, industry location, employment, productivity, and in-state productivity.
Abstract: This article reviews the empirical literature on the impacts of environmental regulations on firms’ competitiveness as measured by trade, industry location, employment, productivity, and in...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that civil society has always meant a rule-governed society where rules were based on some form of social contract among citizens, and that what changed in the 1980s and 1990s was the global dimension of civil society where a social contract is being negotiated across borders establishing a set of global rules involving states as well as international institutions.
Abstract: The main argument of this article is that the idea of global civil society challenges the concept of international relations. It traces the evolution of the idea of society and argues that civil society has always meant a rule-governed society where rules were based on some form of social contract among citizens. Historically, civil society was always territorially tied and contrasted with international relations between states. What changed in the 1980s and 1990s was the global dimension of civil society—a social contract is being negotiated across borders establishing a set of global rules involving states as well as international institutions. The article ends by asking whether September 11 and the war in Iraq mark a reversion to international relations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a theoretical model that hypothesizes how specific areas of digital and social exclusion influence each other and argued that they relate mostly for similar (economic, cultural, social, personal) fields of resources.
Abstract: The notion of digital exclusion has become important in communications research but remains undertheorized. This article proposes a theoretical model that hypothesizes how specific areas of digital and social exclusion influence each other. In this corresponding fields model, it is argued that they relate mostly for similar (economic, cultural, social, personal) fields of resources. The model further proposes that the influence of offline exclusion fields on digital exclusion fields is mediated by access, skills, and attitudinal or motivational aspects. On the other hand, the relevance, quality, ownership, and sustainability of engagement with different digital resources is said to mediate the influence of engagement on offline exclusion. Research supporting this model and possible operationalizations in empirical research and interventions are presented.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the social, economic and environmental benefits of refurbishment compared with demolition, and discuss the issues in order to clarify the scale of the challenge and the relative value of demolition or renovation.
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TL;DR: This article found that financial expansion has in some countries lead to soft budget constraints and undermined growth, and that financial development and growth appear to be jointly determined by fiscal and monetary discipline, at macro level, and contract enforcement, at micro level.
Abstract: A growing and deepening divide has opened up between countries where economic development has "taken off" and those caught in a vicious cycle of institutional backwardness and macroeconomic instability. This "Great Divide" is visible in almost every measure of economic performance, such as GDP growth, investment, government finances, growth in inequality and general institutional infrastructure, and increasingly in measures of financial development. Countries that have made it to the "right" side of the divide (Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, the Baltic States) have pursued a remarkable diversity of policies aimed at financial development. Yet, strikingly, the basic financial architectures of these frontrunners today are remarkably similar: strongly dominated by commercial banks, increasingly foreign owned, which lend primarily to government. Stock markets are highly volatile and illiquid, and their sustainability is in question as the numbers of listed firms are stagnating or even falling. Enterprises rely most on internally generated funds, and essentially all external long-term finance comes from foreign direct investment. This article finds little evidence that finance has lead to increased growth in the transition countries; in fact, financial expansion has in some countries lead to soft budget constraints and undermined growth. Financial development and growth appear to be jointly determined by fiscal and monetary discipline, at the macro level, and contract enforcement, at the micro level. These factors, in turn, seem related to underlying variables like income inequality and recent experience of rule of law.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Ichiro Kawachi | 149 | 1216 | 90282 |
Amartya Sen | 149 | 689 | 141907 |
Peter Hall | 132 | 1640 | 85019 |
Philippe Aghion | 122 | 507 | 73438 |
Robert West | 112 | 1061 | 53904 |
Keith Beven | 110 | 514 | 61705 |
Andrew Pickles | 109 | 436 | 55981 |
Zvi Griliches | 109 | 260 | 71954 |
Martin Knapp | 106 | 1067 | 48518 |
Stephen J. Wood | 105 | 700 | 39797 |
Jianqing Fan | 104 | 488 | 58039 |
Timothy Besley | 103 | 368 | 45988 |
Richard B. Freeman | 100 | 860 | 46932 |
Sonia Livingstone | 99 | 510 | 32667 |
John Van Reenen | 98 | 440 | 40128 |