L. Alan Winters, Thomas W. Hertel
This study reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a potential Doha Development Agenda (DDA). It combines in a novel way the results from several strands of research. First, it draws on an intensive analysis of the DDA Framework Agreem...
Margaux M. I. Meslé, Jeremy Brown, Piers Mook, Mark A. Katz et al.
BACKGROUND: By March, 2023, 54 countries, areas, and territories (hereafter CAT) in the WHO European Region had reported more than 2·2 million COVID-19-related deaths to the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Here, we estimated how many lives were directly saved by vaccinating adults in the WHO Europea...
Abdul Aziz
This study assesses the impact and effectiveness of the National Information and Communications Technology Policy (NIP) in Bangladesh, which is a key legal framework for ‘Vision 2021’ and ‘Digital Bangladesh’. It investigates the extent to which digital inclusion can be achieved by the NIP strategie...
José Manuel Roche
Sajjad Zohir, Imran Matin
Abstract The paper distinguishes between a ‘wider’ definition of wider impacts (which takes into account feedbacks from impacts to institutional performance) and a ‘narrower’ definition, which does not. In respect of both definitions, the paper sets out a typology of the effects which need to be mea...
Hege Hofstad, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing, Trond Vedeld
Abstract This article has a twofold aim. First, inspired by collaborative governance theory, the article develops an analytical framework built around three ideal co‐creation strategies utilized by city governments for building capacity and addressing urban climate solutions. Second, this co‐creatio...
United Nations Development Programme
Human development has moved to the centre of the global development debate. It is being incorporated in the development strategies of countries all over the world—from Bangladesh to Ghana to Pakistan to Colombia. It is an important element in discussions on international aid. And it is now the core ...
Philip F. Musa, Peter Meso, Victor Mbarika
This paper proposes and merges an extension of technology acceptance model with ideas from human development research targeting least developed countries. Specifically, the paper proposes an extension of the influence of perceived user resource, which in turn was developed from the original TAM lite...
Md Saifur Rahman, Md. Nazmus Sadath, Lukas Gießen
José Lobo, Rimjhim Aggarwal, Marina Alberti, Melissa Allen‐Dumas et al.
There is a growing recognition that responding to climate change necessitates urban adaptation. We sketch a transdisciplinary research effort, arguing that actionable research on urban adaptation needs to recognize the nature of cities as social networks embedded in physical space. Given the pace, s...
Mohammad Afshar Ali, Khorshed Alam, Brad R. Taylor
Despite rapid digital development in the past two decades, the remote parts of Australia still experience disadvantages with the adoption and diffusion of digital technology. As the adoption of information and communication technology continues to increase at a significant rate, investigating the un...
В А Багиров, S. E. Treshkin, Andrey Korobka, Fedor Dereka et al.
According to FAOSTAT, in 2018-2019 rice was planted in 118 countries on an area of 167 million hectares, the annual grain production in the world is about 782 million tons. Rice is the most popular cereal in the diet of the Russian consumer. Rice growing is a small but rather important branch of the...
Mojca Žerjav Tanšek, Urh Grošelj, Natalija Angelkova, D Anton et al.
BACKGROUND: We aimed to assess the current state of PKU screening and management in the region of southeastern Europe. METHODS: A survey was performed involving all identified professionals responsible for the PKU management in the 11 countries from South-Eastern region of Europe (Albania, Bulgaria,...
Luís Miguel Ruiz Pérez, Raúl Oltra-Badenes, Juan Vicente Oltra Gutiérrez, Hermenegildo Gil-Gómez
This article aims to present a bibliometric analysis of Smart Cities. The study analyzes the most important journals during the period between 1991 and 2019. It provides helpful insights into the document types, the distribution of countries/territories, the distribution of institutions, the authors...
Raf Guns, Yuxian Liu, Dilruba Mahbuba