Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business

L Nachum, CE Stevens, A Newenham-Kahindi… - Journal of International …, 2023 - Springer
Africa is rising, but IB scholars have largely failed to take notice. We argue that this is a
missed opportunity. Not only is Africa a dynamic and distinctive region, but its rise presents a …

Gender equality oversimplified: Using CEDAW to counter the measurement obsession

DJ Liebowitz, S Zwingel - International Studies Review, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Global measurements have become foundational for understanding gender equality as well
as for directing resources and policy development to address gendered inequalities. We …

[HTML][HTML] The doing business ranking and the GDP. A qualitative study

J Estevão, JD Lopes, D Penela, JM Soares - Journal of Business Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The topics of economic development and the importance of the business environment are
repeatedly being studied by academia. Funding issues focus the debate, in particular on …

Business and human rights indicators to measure the corporate responsibility to respect: Challenges and opportunities

D De Felice - Human Rights Quarterly, 2015 - muse.jhu.edu
Business and human rights indicators, ratings, and indices have proliferated in the past few
years. Yet, measuring respect for human rights by corporations is not an easy task. This …

UNHCR and the pursuit of international protection: accountability through technology?

KL Jacobsen, KB Sandvik - Third World Quarterly, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Better management and new technological solutions are increasingly portrayed as the way
to improve refugee protection and enhance the accountability of humanitarian actors. Taking …

[图书][B] The Mekong: A socio-legal approach to river basin development

B Boer, P Hirsch, F Johns, B Saul, N Scurrah - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
An international river basin is an ecological system, an economic thoroughfare, a
geographical area, a font of life and livelihoods, a geopolitical network and, often, a cultural …

[图书][B] The rule of law: the common sense of global politics

C May - 2014 - books.google.com
Page 1 淇淇 鐵廠搬 Christopher May EE THE RULE OF LAW The Common Sense of Global
Politics 港鐵 Page 2 The Rule of Law Page 3 For Hilary, as always Page 4 The Rule of Law …

Effects of indicator use: A comparison of poverty measuring instruments at the World Bank

K Freistein - Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Diffusing their knowledge and enhancing the potency of their ideas, international
organisations like the World Bank employ indicators and other instruments that seem …

A false promise? Regulating land-grabbing and the post-colonial state

N Tzouvala - Leiden Journal of International Law, 2019 - cambridge.org
Since 2008, a global 'land rush'has been unfolding and so have efforts by international,
national and regional actors to position themselves as the principal authorities in the …

Global social indicators and the concept of legitimacy

M Siems, D Nelken - International Journal of Law in Context, 2017 - cambridge.org
Global social indicators have become a core point of interest of scholarship in law and other
social sciences. The term 'legitimacy'is occasionally mentioned in this literature but without …