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Impact of Sovereign Debt Maturity on Fiscal Sustainability
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study is the first to investigate the impact of the term structure of public debt on fiscal sustainability. We adopt the widely used backward‐looking measure of fiscal sustainability—fiscal responsiveness as proposed by Bohn. Using data from De Graeve and Mazzolini and focusing on a sample of 19 most developed countries, we demonstrate ...
António Afonso +3 more
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Hasty changes to the machinery of government can disrupt departments for up to two years [PDF]
, 2010 Prime Ministers who are new in government or who are facing difficulties, often reorganize Whitehall as a way of demonstrating impact. Yet Anne White and Patrick Dunleavy show that this approach often has substantial costs, which are particularly hard to
Dunleavy, Patrick, White, Anne
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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Who Undermines the Welfare State? Austerity-Dogmatism and the U-Turn in Swedish Asylum Policy
Social Inclusion, 2018 Within the EU, the so-called “refugee crisis” has been predominantly dealt with as an ill-timed and untenable financial burden. Since the 2007–08 financial crisis, the overarching objective of policy initiatives by EU-governments has been to keep public ...
Simone Scarpa, Carl-Ulrik Schierup
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2017 Since the 2008 financial crisis, austerity has been deployed as a public policy geared towards reducing sovereign debt and restoring economic order, on the one hand, and descried as an example of punitive moralizing by political and economic elites, on the other. This article challenges the economic understanding of the concept of austerity.
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Parent‐led, preschool language interventions may help to mitigate the risk of poor language and literacy outcomes associated with lower socioeconomic status. This study builds on two previous evaluations of a parent‐led early language teaching programme, which demonstrated mixed findings.
Kelly Burgoyne +6 more
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The Psychopolitics of Austerity: democracy, youth and civil protest
Recerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 2015 This article explores the psychopolitics of austerity with particular reference to Greece and Ireland. It also analyses the relationship between austerity, democracy and civil protest.
Fred Powell
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An Investment and Equality-Led Sustainable Development Strategy for Europe [PDF]
, 2017 Austerity policies coupled with rising inequality in Europe have resulted in a prolonged stagnation and a vicious circle of chronically low demand, slow down in investment and productivity, and economic, social and political instability.
Andersen, Lars +6 more
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Out of the crisis. A radical change of strategy for the eurozone [PDF]
, 2017 The paper argues that the crisis, mistakenly interpreted as a standard fiscal/balance of payments problem, was generated by the incomplete nature of the European institutions and a disregard for the consequences of differences in the stages of ...
Ginzburg, Andrea, Simonazzi, Annamaria
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Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose To evaluate 6‐month knowledge retention and long‐term satisfaction after two pedagogical escape games (PEGs) addressing foundational (3D printing) and clinical (pediatric dentistry) content in a dental curriculum. Methods In this monocentric serial cross‐sectional study, immediate post‑PEG knowledge was assessed in fifth‑year dental ...
Lina Grich +8 more
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