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Hunter Hughes

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#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

The Development Multiplier of Universal Reliable Electricity

Universal access to reliable electricity functions as a foundational development multiplier, enabling productivity gains, institutional capacity, and long‑run economic transformation across all sectors. This paper synthesizes evidence from energy‑systems engineering, development economics, and digital‑economy dynamics...

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#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

The Development Multiplier of Universal Reliable Electricity

Universal access to reliable electricity functions as a foundational development multiplier, enabling productivity gains, institutional capacity, and long‑run economic transformation across all sectors. This paper synthesizes evidence from energy‑systems engineering, development economics, and digital‑economy dynamics...

Hunter Hughes · 0 citations
#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

Climate Adaptation Technologies and the Future of Development Convergence

Climate change is reshaping the fundamental mechanics of global development. The monograph argues that without rapid, affordable diffusion of frontier adaptation technologies, climate exposure will fracture the historical pathway of latecomer economic catch‑up—producing a new, structural global divide. As the document...

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#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

Innovation Diffusion Under Conditions of Global Polycrisis

Technological diffusion is no longer governed by the orderly S‑curve models of Rogers or the convergence assumptions of classical development economics. Under conditions of global polycrisis—where climate volatility, extreme pollution, sovereign debt distress, geoeconomic fragmentation, and armed conflict interact as s...

Hunter Hughes · 0 citations
#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

Innovation Diffusion Under Conditions of Global Polycrisis

Technological diffusion is no longer governed by the orderly S‑curve models of Rogers or the convergence assumptions of classical development economics. Under conditions of global polycrisis—where climate volatility, extreme pollution, sovereign debt distress, geoeconomic fragmentation, and armed conflict interact as s...

Hunter Hughes · 0 citations
#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

Second-Hand Technology Flows and the Unmanaged Diffusion Frontier

The global clean‑energy transition in low‑ and lower‑middle‑income economies is unfolding not through factory‑new photovoltaic arrays, electric vehicles, or utility‑scale batteries, but through an expansive, largely unregulated influx of second‑hand, refurbished, and near‑end‑of‑life hardware. As documented in the mono...

Hunter Hughes · 0 citations
#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

Second-Hand Technology Flows and the Unmanaged Diffusion Frontier

The global clean‑energy transition in low‑ and lower‑middle‑income economies is unfolding not through factory‑new photovoltaic arrays, electric vehicles, or utility‑scale batteries, but through an expansive, largely unregulated influx of second‑hand, refurbished, and near‑end‑of‑life hardware. As documented in the mono...

Hunter Hughes · 0 citations
#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

Convergence in Asia This Century

Asia is entering a century defined by a powerful interaction between economic growth, technological diffusion, human‑development gains and rising adaptive capacity. The report argues that convergence is no longer a simple GDP catch‑up story but a reinforcing development system in which capital accumulation, innovation,...

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#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

State Capacity and the Geography of Innovation Adoption

Innovation does not diffuse evenly across space, and this paper argues that state capacity is a primary determinant of where new technologies are successfully adopted. Using cross‑regional data on administrative effectiveness, public‑goods provision, and institutional quality, we show that areas with stronger state cap...

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#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

South-South Climate Diplomacy and the Diffusion of Nationally Determined Contribution Models

South‑South climate diplomacy has become the structural center of gravity in global climate governance, displacing the historical assumption of Annex I technological and financial primacy. As the monograph notes, “emerging economies and developing nations now account for over 66% of annual global greenhouse gas emissio...

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#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

How Clean Technology Diffusion Can Reshape Global Development

Clean technology diffusion is fundamentally rewriting the development model of the Global South. Historically, economic growth and carbon emissions moved in lockstep, forcing emerging economies into a costly fossil‑fuel industrialization pathway. As the monograph states, “clean technologies have become substantially ch...

Hunter Hughes · 0 citations
#diffusion models Open access Sep 2026

South-South Climate Diplomacy and the Diffusion of Nationally Determined Contribution Models

South‑South climate diplomacy has become the structural center of gravity in global climate governance, displacing the historical assumption of Annex I technological and financial primacy. As the monograph notes, “emerging economies and developing nations now account for over 66% of annual global greenhouse gas emissio...

Hunter Hughes · 0 citations

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