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Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2016 Last month, Public Health England announced increases in life expectancy. For what it’s worth, men aged 65 years old can expect to live for another 19 years. Women of that age can expect to live a further 21 years. There is regional variation. For example, there is no predicted increase for the North East.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smart city initiatives aim for sustainability and inclusiveness, but recent evidence shows that they often lead to injustices. Although this contradiction has received growing academic attention, a comprehensive understanding of how justice is addressed within smart city practices remains limited.
Md. Nazmul Haque +5 more
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The public health crisis in Greece and its ties to a failing economy [PDF]
, 2016 In 2009 the Greek government admitted that the numbers it had been reporting to the European Union about its national budget deficit were artificially small.
Carleen, Anna M.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
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Mobile heterotopia: movement, circulation and the function of the university
KronosThis paper explores the function of the university through the lens of mobility as seen from a South African perspective. Understanding the role of the university as one that requires the movement and circulation of academic bodies in the form of ...
Bradley Rink
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Partners in Austerity: Jamaica, the United States and the International Monetary Fund [PDF]
, 2015 This paper looks at Jamaica's ongoing relationship with the International Monetary Fund and multilateral development banks, its recent economic performance and the impact on development of a persistently high debt burden.
Jake Johnston
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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector [PDF]
, 2011 In a time of fiscal austerity in government, the pay levels for senior civil servants have come under increasing scrutiny. Sandy Pepper finds that despite the public’s seeming opposition to high pay in the public sector, there are no easy fixes, and that
Pepper, Alexander
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Theorizing Synchronization of Organizational Resources in Dynamic Environments
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resource orchestration (RO) in dynamic environments poses challenges during strategic initiatives. Although prior research highlights RO's benefits, little is known about how managerial decisions influence RO over time, potentially leading to inefficiencies.
Haytham Siala +6 more
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PROCESSES AND EFFECTS OF POST-SOCIALIST NEOLIBERALIZATION
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2015 Our thematic block was initially announced by the journal Studia Europaea as a special issue regarding the social effects of austerity. This title could suggest that the guest editors would have liked addressing austerity policies as a technical matter ...
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