Sustainable development in the Arab world – is the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region fit for the challenge?
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p dir="ltr">The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and the wider Arab world are faced with multiple inter-connected dilemmas embedded in the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable development. The question of how to design effective sustainability strategies that are alignedwith the context of the GCC region is a relevant one. In this special issue, contributors have investi-gated the obstacles to sustainable development in the GCC region, the impact of current develop-ment patterns on the sustainability agenda, and the way in which countries react to local,regional, and global sustainability pressures and debates. The issue aimed to provide a platformfor academics to present policy-relevant research and practical steps being taken towards realisinggenuine sustainable development within the GCC region, while teasing out the major obstacles tothis process. This regional focus is motivated by the shared challenge of GCC countries of reformingcarbon-based economies as well as their systems of high subsidisation and universal benefits in orderto incorporate sustainable concerns, merit-based rules, and more targeted policies. While these chal-lenges are shared with other Arab countries, as well as other countries exporting oil and gas, theorigins, current patterns, and future directions of sustainability reforms in the GCC region reveal inter-esting lessons to be learnt. <h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Development in Practice<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2019.1628922" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2019.1628922</a>
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.018 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it