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Otherwise engaged? Learning from non‐participation in research with care‐experienced students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores what can be learned when educational research “fails.” Drawing on a Welland Trust–funded project in the North East of England that aimed to support care‐experienced students transitioning from further to higher education, we reflect on why, despite sustained effort, there was a lack of engagement.
Lynette Harland Shotton, Tom Disney, Andrea Carrick, Laura Thurman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capital Flight and Investment Dynamics in Nigeria: A Time Series Analysis (1970-2006) [PDF]

This study critically examines the implications of capital flight on investment growth in Nigeria between 1970 and 2006, because of the consequential effect it has on economic growth.
Maku, Olukayode E., Atanda, Akinwande A., Adesoye, A. Bolaji   +2 more
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Powerful transformations: The experiences of higher education teaching staff who were first‐generation university students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Historically, a university education has been seen primarily as a route for the middle classes to achieve professional qualifications while structural barriers have served to restrict entry to individuals from particular demographics. First‐generation students (FGS), often with low socio‐economic backgrounds, face multiple barriers to Higher ...
Helen Williams, Ellen‐Alyssa Gambles
wiley   +1 more source

Is Africa a Net Creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-1996 [PDF]

This paper presents estimates of capital flight from 25 low-income sub-Saharan African countries in the period 1970 to 1996. Capital flight totaled more than $193 billion (in 1996 dollars); with imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock of flight ...
James Boyce, Léonce Ndikumana
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Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Katherine Arnold
wiley   +1 more source

Causality between external debt and capital flight in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

Over the past few decades, the foreign liabilities of the majority of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have grown dramatically, propelling most nations into the status of Highly Indebted Poor Countries, when these liabilities reached unsustainable levels ...
Fofack, Hippolyte
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Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement,
Luregn Lenggenhager
wiley   +1 more source

Potential gains from capital flight repatriation for Sub-Saharan African countries [PDF]

Despite the recent increase in capital flows to Sub-Saharan Africa, the region remains largely marginalized in financial globalization and chronically dependent on official development aid.
Ndikumana, Leonce, Fofack, Hippolyte
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The Degradation of Access‐Based Business Models: Customer Misbehavior and Shared Mobility

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access‐based services are considered one of the strategies to embed sustainability in business models. Yet, because the evolution of these business models has been overlooked, we do not know whether their promise to create triple value is sustained.
Andres Camacho, Carmen Valor
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Impact of Capital Flight from Russia and its Institutional Context: Why Capital Controls cannot be a Part of a Pro-Growth Policy (updated version). [PDF]

The research presented in this paper is undertaken in response to the debate on capital flight from Russia. This debate usually involves discussion of its determinants but misses the question of its ultimate effects on the economy.
Kadochnikov, Denis
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