Complexity

Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, meaning there is no reasonable higher instruction to define the various possible interactions.The term is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways, culminating in a higher order of emergence greater than the sum of its parts. The study of these complex linkages at various scales is the main goal of complex systems theory. Science as of 2010 takes a number of approaches to characterizing complexity; Zayed et al. reflect many …

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UN: The United Nations · 6 December 2024 English

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Over the past decade, the scale, range and complexity of UNICEF programmes and operations have increased


The South Centre · 15 May 2024 English

greatly 8 The US has failed to join many conventions which had wide support both increase the complexity of the system, and remain unfair for deve- internationally and within the US, notably the UN Convention

includes a clear formu- greatly adding to the complexity of the system. Furthermore, its lation of its conventions which had wide support both increase the complexity of the system, and remain unfair for deve- internationally


AFRODAD: African Forum and Network on Debt and Development · 14 May 2024 English

A country is considered to be “in debt distress” when the present value of debt to GDP and exports ratio and debt service ratios significantly breach the respective thresholds, and …

creditworthiness of sovereigns. The DSF also increases the complexity of the IMF’s concurrently conflicting roles as


RSIS: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies · 13 May 2024 English

However, the catch-up competition mode of the two countries and their mismatched maritime interests pose obstacles to the practice of maritime crisis management between the two sides. [...] At the …

United States have increased the difficulty and complexity of maritime crisis management for both parties


Global Risk Institute in Financial Services · 13 May 2024 English

According to the report by the World Bank (2018)3 the driving force behind the price collapse was the “boom and rapid efficiency gains in U. [...] The oil price plunge …

and its domestically focused operation. Adding complexity to this dynamic, CM generally functions as a


WZB: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung · 13 May 2024 Japanese

264 ‘The Legitimacy and Legitimation of International Organizations: Introduction and Framework’ (together with Jonas Tallberg), in: The Review of International Organizations, 14:4, 1-26. [...] 207 ‘Introduction – From Rule of …

Liberal Script – SCRIPTS‘. 289 ‘Managing regime complexity: Introducing the interface conflicts 1.0 dataset’


RAND Corporation · 13 May 2024 English

Because employer-sponsored spending comes from employee wages and benefits, employers have a fiduciary responsibility to administer benefits in the interest of participants. The lack of transparency of prices in the …

variation might simply reflect the underlying complexity of hospital markets (Garthwaite, Ody, and Starc been useful, largely because of their size and complexity and because they lack context on service quantities services differ widely in their intensity and complexity from patient to patient and from provider to reference pricing, is that they add a layer of complexity to the patient’s journey through the U.S. health


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 13 May 2024 English

undertaken to engage the private sector in the AfCFTA process through the negotiations and in terms of The next section summarises some of the ways in which implementation. [...] Continent-wide …

areas such as coffee, maize, manufacturing, the complexity of conducting trade within the horticulture, debt levels, further exacerbating existing the complexity of processes paradoxically render these structural financing remains a pressing issue in Africa. complexity, raises the issue of choosing between these Businesses


SCAR: Standing Commitee on Agricultural Research · 13 May 2024

Indeed, the EU uses a significant part of world lands for its own consumption: 40% of the necessary cultivable land for the production of agricultural goods consumed in the EU …

condition for success will be to avoid adding complexity in the existing management of EP. With the addition


Governance Institute of Australia · 13 May 2024 English

She is one of the leading data protection lawyers in Asia-Pacific and has worked on some of the largest and most high-profile cybersecurity breaches in the region involving a variety …

present, with a reputation for guiding through complexity. Jen Ulichny FGIA, Company Secretary, Inclusee


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