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Disasters, Dictators, and Donors: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Activity (Mis)Reporting
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments manipulate economic data to secure more foreign disaster aid. By using nighttime lighting as a reliable measure of economic activity, we make two key findings: (1) foreign disaster aid is positively linked to a country's understatement of its gross domestic product, indicating a deliberate strategy to ...
M. Martin Boyer +2 more
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
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India – Africa: Trade and Investments in the 21st Century
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2019 The article discusses commercial relations and investment flows between India and the countries of Africa against the backdrop of globalization in the 21st century.
E. A. Bragina
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Local Tests of English in Global Contexts: A Malaysian Case Study
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global tests of English are usually used globally and local tests locally. However, this global–local dichotomy has been challenged by test localisation, globalisation and glocalisation. An emerging critical question in this regard is whether local tests of English can be used locally and globally at the same time.
M. Obaidul Hamid, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob
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American Imperialism and Environmental Concerns in Syed Waliullah's The Ugly Asian
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bangladeshi bilingual writer Syed Waliullah's novel in English, The Ugly Asian (2013), written during the 1960s but published posthumously in 2013, highlights the struggles of a fictional postcolonial nation in Asia in the face of American imperialism.
Rakibul Hasan Khan
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The evolution and conceptualisations of transnational education
Review of Education, Volume 14, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract Transnational education (TNE) has traditionally been recognised as the movement of higher education providers and programmes across international borders, but recently, broader interpretations have emerged. Over the last three decades, TNE has continuously evolved to address changing global needs and conditions.
Stephen Wilkins
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Soft Power of Nonconsensus Protein-DNA Binding. [PDF]
Biophys J, 2020 Teif VB.
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Scandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, November 2026.Abstract We analyze challenges and adaptation strategies of Nordic legal overseers, the Parliamentary Ombudsmen and Chancellors of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, amid the COVID‐19 crisis. We study how the accountability capacities of the legal overseers were affected when standard practices of inclusive decision‐making were severed ...
Tero Erkkilä +2 more
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