The effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy in sustaining growth and facilitating recovery from economic crises is increasingly considered to be significantly influenced by the quality of a country’s institutions. Strong institutions may de...
Environmental control remains a salient aspect of states’ policies in the present decade. To reduce emissions, governments and central banks tend to adopt various strategies. The present research quantifies the nexus between fiscal and monetary...
The European Union Quality policy promotes original and traditional agricultural and food products of high quality at the EU level. It aims at protecting the names of specific products to promote their unique characteristics, linked to their geograph...
Following the recent global climate changes, many countries, including developed nations, are announcing greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets and are actively participating in reducing GHG. Therefore, the role of the building sector on reducing GHG...
The shift from increasing grain production to improving grain quality is a key measure to adapt to the changing structure of residents’ food consumption demand. High-standard farmland construction is an important means to achieve high grain pro...
How can citizen science projects advance the achievement of transformative air quality-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Germany and Niger? We investigate the promise of using citizen-generated data (CGD) as an input for official SDG mo...
30 May 2022
Independent of different national conditions, an indisputable fact is that the worldwide governments should play a role in fighting the ongoing COVID-19. To make clear the determinants of government response to tackle COVID-19, I investigate the impa...
Against the backdrop of China’s carbon-peaking and carbon-neutrality goals and its initiative to build a Beautiful China, direct causal evidence remains limited on whether the carbon-peaking pilot policy improves urban air quality and through w...
The democratic welfare government is not only interested in creating educational institutions as infrastructure for education for all, but is also equally keen on quality-oriented, even-handed, and equitable education. In fact, the focus of the Globa...
In the context of promoting sustainable development and innovative growth, few studies have examined the signaling role of digital policy texts and its effects on enterprise innovation. Focused on the pilot project of China’s National Big Data...
This research makes a significant contribution to the literature on the economic implications of fiscal policy and institutional quality by modeling empirically the impact of these factors on public debt in 27 transition countries over the period 200...
Automotive exhaust emissions contribute significantly to air pollution in developing countries. However, the effectiveness of driving restriction policies (DRPs) is unclear, and most research on China emphasizes Beijing. This study used Chengdu, a ty...
Power quality problems exist in every power system; the more advanced the system is, the higher the probability for issues to occur is, and the smart grid is no exception. In this paper, a study of a residential area is implemented using the LABVIEW...
Analyzing the evolution of cultivated land quality protection policy in China is crucial for refining its frameworks and constructing a “trinity” system integrating quantity, quality, and ecological sustainability. This study employs cont...
Based on historical and WFD-compliant data, the recent inter-annual ecological status and the long-term chemical-physicochemical quality trends of eighteen characteristic Greek rivers have been assessed and interpreted in view of implementing EU envi...
Studying the implementation benefits of low-carbon city pilot policies in fostering green, high-quality development is critical for China’s carbon peaking and neutrality targets. This research examines the effect of urban low-carbon governance...
(1) Background: This work evaluated the usability of commercial “low-cost” air quality sensor systems to substantiate evidence-based policy making. (2) Methods: Two commercially available sensor systems (Airly, Kunak) were benchmarked at...
Prior literature on the green innovation effects of green credit policies is extensive. However, few scholars have focused on the impact of green credit policies on the high-quality development of heavily-polluting enterprises. Based on this, this st...
23 September 2022
Background: To protect and improve the health of populations, the important role of primary health institutions has been strengthened through a series of health policies, especially the implementation of a national hierarchical diagnosis and treatmen...
Enhancing the quality of urban innovation is a powerful strategy for advancing urban sustainability. A strong public innovation policy is a crucial building block for advancing urban innovation quality. This study identifies innovative procurement in...
In the context of China’s strategic push toward high-quality development, the concept of new quality productive forces (NQPF)—which emphasizes technological innovation, green transformation, and digital upgrading—has received a lot...
During the waiting period before passing through locks, inland vessels typically rely on diesel generators to power their onboard equipment, which leads to air pollution and poses more direct threats to the surrounding residents and ecological enviro...
Abstract: Urban greenspaces have been essential in supporting residents’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly under strict lockdown measures. However, the impact of changing containment policies on residents’ perceived gr...
Against the backdrop of a global economic slowdown, this study examines the impact of the digital intelligence economy on regional high-quality development across 30 Chinese provinces from 2008 to 2022, considering the moderating role of economic pol...
With the emphasis on environmental protection issues, countries have introduced a number of circular economy-related policies aimed at guiding enterprises to green development and green innovation. At the same time, they are encouraged to strengthen...
In recent years, haze pollution in China has garnered significant attention from both the government and the public, with vehicle emissions being identified as a key source of pollution. This study analyzes the impact of the tail number restriction p...
In the global pursuit of sustainable development and climate change mitigation, reconciling export growth with environmental protection has emerged as a universal challenge. As the world’s largest developing economy, China has traditionally rel...
Amid China’s economic transition toward high-quality development, the policy of additional deductions for R&D expenses, a key fiscal and taxation tool for incentivizing corporate innovation, has attracted considerable attention for its actu...
Air quality monitoring (AQM) is key to maintaining healthy air in cities. This is crucial in low- and middle-income countries due to increasing evidence of poor air quality but lack of monitors to consistently collect evaluate air quality data and ef...
Artificial intelligence has transitioned from a peripheral innovation to a core infrastructure shaping higher education within a remarkably short period. While conceptual debates on AI ethics, pedagogy, and academic integrity are expanding, empirical...
While interest in indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in Latin American housing has been growing over the past decade, the COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted its critical importance due to increased residential occupancy time, exposure to indoo...
This paper is an investigation into the degree to which regulatory quality and economic policy uncertainty influence loan performance in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries. The data for the study were drawn from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), W...
The causal link between family size and human capital investment in children is critical for family planning policy. However, empirical studies aiming to test the quantity–quality trade-off are far from sufficient. This paper tried to estimate...
The investment in Major Construction Projects (MCPs) has a counter-cyclical impact on quantitative GDP increases during the recession period. However, its impact on the quality of economic growth is still unknown. Based on the data of prefecture-leve...
Throughout the European Union (EU), high concentrations of nitrates and pesticides are among the major polluting components of drinking water and have potential long-term impacts on the environment and human health. Many research projects co-funded b...
The community’s mother and child health (MCH) and nutrition problems can be overcome through evidence-based health policy. Posyandu is an implementation of community empowerment in health promotion strategies. The iPosyandu application (app) is...
Air pollution caused by traffic and other sources remains a challenge in big cities and urbanized areas in Germany and abroad. Nitrogen dioxide emissions, particulate matter, noise emissions, and ozone are still problematic issues with negative impac...
24 May 2021
The determinants of innovation output in empirical literature were extensively investigated by considering diverse sets of variables. Still, the impact of economic policy uncertainty on innovation output is yet to unleash. To mitigate the existing re...
Contact-rich precision assembly fails in ways visible in the force/torque and proprioceptive streams before they are visible in the finished part, which makes online quality monitoring attractive. We ask whether monitoring accuracy or the recovery po...
Low-carbon transition is a wide-ranging and deep economic and social transformation. Can we enhance high-quality development of the manufacturing industry (HQDM) during the low-carbon transition process? The enactment of the low-carbon city pilot pol...
Since 2019, eighteen major ministries and commissions, including the National Development and Reform Commission, have launched trials for a “zero-waste city”. Shenzhen, Baotou, Tongling, and 16 other cities and regions have entered the pr...
The paper contributes to the existing literature on the EU’s Cohesion Policy outcomes by extending the conditional beta-convergence model with a 3-way multiplicative term to examine the mediating effects of the Cohesion Policy, institutional qu...
In the face of an increasing awareness of environmental issues and the urgent need to tackle them without shifting the burden onto the most vulnerable social groups, calls for a socio-economic transformation are growing louder. However, there is no c...
Tourism digitalization is widely viewed as a tool for sustainable local development, yet whether policy-led digital transformation generates measurable improvements in tourism-economy quality remains insufficiently tested. Treating the staggered esta...
20 January 2016
Most casinos owned by sovereign American Indian nations allow smoking, even in U.S. states such as California where state laws restrict workplace smoking. Collaborations between casinos and public health workers are needed to promote smoke-free polic...
19 October 2020
Long-term improvement of ecological environment quality (EEQ) is a hotspot and urgent topic in the context of high-quality and sustainable development. It is urgent to look for methods that could support EEQ improvement in a high-quality and sustaina...
Public buildings serve large numbers of occupants, including children and patients, who often have limited control over their exposure, yet the adoption of indoor air quality (IAQ) standards does not automatically ensure sustained compliance. Existin...
High-quality development enhances economic quality and resource allocation efficiency through various effective and sustainable means, with particularly notable results in the manufacturing sector. Quality policies, through establishing standards, no...
Air density and pressure above the Earth’s surface in the tropospheric region depend on altitude relative to sea level. When a given amount of pollutant gas enters the atmosphere at sea level, it produces a contaminated air mixture; if the same...
Long-term measurement results of indoor air quality (IAQ) from 1989 to 2013 inside Pit No. 1, the largest display hall in Emperor Qin’s Terra-cotta Museum (QTM), were used to evaluate the effectiveness of measures for conservation environment improve...
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