Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
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Developing a hybrid technique for energy demand forecasting based on optimized improved SVM by the boosted multi-verse optimizer: Investigation on affecting factors. [PDF]
Huang A, Bi Q, Dai L, Hosseinzadeh H.
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The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart cities: the ethics of the hyper-connectivity, datafication, algorithmization, and platformization of urban society. [PDF]
Bibri SE, Allam Z.
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The Eastern transition to a market economy: a global perspective. [PDF]
This paper contains the text of a series of public lectures given by Professor Williamson at the LSE on February 24 and 25 1992. Professor Williamson is the first holder of the British Petroleum Professorship, awarded annually to a visiting academic of ...
Williamson, J.
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Business ethics, law and zemiology: The criminology of social and environmental harm
Abstract This speculative paper introduces zemiology, an extension of radical criminology which explores why many ‘crimes’ are not ‘illegal’ by focussing on the problem of ‘social harm’. Zemiology insists that we should begin with social or environmental problems, and not allow their foreclosure by the distraction of whether a particular practice is ...
Robin Klimecki, Martin Parker
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The devil's in the detail: an appraisal of the use of innovative financing mechanisms for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. [PDF]
Tacheva B+3 more
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ABSTRACT This manuscript investigates the factors influencing the selection of responsive corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes in the subsidiaries of Japanese manufacturing multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in Indonesia. With a significant and growing manufacturing sector funded by foreign direct investment—of which Japanese MNEs ...
Masayoshi Ike+3 more
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) Implementation in India: A SAP-LAP-Twitter Analytic Perspective. [PDF]
Deshmukh AK, Mohan A, Mohan I.
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After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the emergence of the rule of law in post-communist societies [PDF]
With the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1989-91, many economic reformers supported"Big Bang"privatization-the rapid transfer of state-owned enterprises to private individuals.
Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.
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