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Investment attractiveness in BRICS+ economies: Evaluating business environment reforms, institutional quality, and macroeconomic factors. [PDF]

PLoS One
Tachega MA, Wang J, Chen Y, Ahmed R, Opoku EO, Mintah C, Bart-Plange L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Power Transition and Pragmatic Adaptation: Iran's Strategic Approach to China, Russia and the GCC

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Iranian strategic thinkers conceptualise the country's ‘Look East’ policy (i.e., relations with China and Russia) and the GCC states. Using thematic qualitative content analysis of approximately 70 documents from Iranian state official, advisory and academic institutions (2015–2025), it reveals that Iran's eastward ...
Sara Bazoobandi
wiley   +1 more source

Power imbalances in tropical medicine journals: an analysis of editorial board representation. [PDF]

Trop Med Health
Panda SN, Barik M, Ratna P, Das PK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

Insertion in the N-Terminal Domain of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein Affects Antibody Recognition and Phenotypic Properties. [PDF]

Viruses
Ermolaeva EA, Zyrina AN, Sirazova DI, Lunin AS, Motov AS, Chernavtseva AD, Gancharova OS, Kozlovskaya LI, Shishova AA, Siniugina AA, Ishmukhametov AA.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Export Credit Agencies and the Privilege of Wealth in Global Value Chain Participation

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public export credit agencies (ECAs) facilitate global trade by offering insurance to protect against the risk of non‐payment, provided minimum local content was produced. With the rise of global value chains (GVCs), exports often contain limited national content, and some ECAs argue that ‘national interest’ is more important.
Michael Creighton, Helena Barnard, Matthew Sterne, Brendon Wolff‐Piggott   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Highly electrophilic, <i>gem-</i> and <i>spiro-</i>activated trichloromethylnitrocyclopropanes: synthesis and structure. [PDF]

Beilstein J Org Chem
Pilipenko IA, Grigoriev MV, Ozerova OY, Litvinov IA, Spiridonova DV, Vasilyev AV, Makarenko SV.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Iron Ore Pricing in China: Financialization Through a Marxist Lens

Abacus, EarlyView.
We offer a Marxist interpretation of financialization as we examine the Chinese market for iron ore and the shift in the pricing mechanism from an annual fixed price to an indexed price from 2010. Drawing upon Marx's theory of the circuit of capital, we illustrate an empirical case of financialization that results from the conflict between social ...
Xun Gong, Eagle Zhang, Corinne Cortese
wiley   +1 more source

Willingness, motivators and barriers to time bank participation: A scoping review. [PDF]

PLoS One
Azizan NS, Che CC, Chong MC, Tan MP, Pang YK, Alavi K.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Unintended Effects of US Regulations on the Value of Cash Holdings of Non‐US Companies: Evidence from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's International Inspection Access

Abacus, EarlyView.
We investigate the effects of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) international inspection access on the value of cash holdings for non‐US companies. Utilizing a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) research design, we find that investors assign significantly higher value to a non‐US company's cash holdings when the company's non‐US ...
Hsiao‐Tang Hsu, Huichi Huang, Yutao Li
wiley   +1 more source