Category: Governance

Unfair Benefit Sharing Tops Forest Land Reform Concerns in Mpumalanga

Surveying 180 households in two Mpumalanga forest restitution projects, researchers found unequal benefit sharing and...

AI Readiness and Connectivity Linked to Fewer Conflict Deaths in Five African Countries

A cross-national study of five African countries found complex associations between information manipulation, government AI...

Nearly Nine in Ten Surveyed Mexican Adults Had Never Received Water Quality Updates

Jalisco survey of 1,036 adults found 88.8% had never received surface water quality information.

Digital connectivity was not linked to faster health coverage gains in 166-country study

An analysis of 3,522 country-years found no clear short-term health coverage gains from connectivity alone,...

Flood risk is widespread, but federal insurance reaches just 27 of 574 US tribal nations

An analysis of flood events and 57 tribal hazard plans finds severe flood exposure alongside...

Overtime explained 61.6% of the gender pay gap in a 10,291-worker study

Women earned 94.7 cents per male dollar in base salary but 86.3 cents in total...

Small neighbourhood parks delivered the strongest walking-health returns in Tokyo

Mobility data from 1.79 million visits found walking-related park benefits were highly uneven, with about...

Community Notes cut subsequent sharing of misleading posts by 61.2% across 237,180 X cascades

A large quasi-experimental Nature Communications study found that displaying Community Notes reduced subsequent reposting of...

Independent and gender-diverse boards were linked to lower carbon intensity across 972 major firms

A five-country study of 972 listed firms found that board independence, gender diversity, meeting frequency...

AI use appeared in 36% of national genomics initiatives but only three had public AI-specific policies

A global review found current or planned AI use in 32 of 90 national genomics...

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