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Под микроскопом. Центральный банк Российской Федерации [PDF]
Целью настоящей статьи является изучение главного денежно-кредитного института Российской Федерации — Центрального банка. Рассматриваются различные аспекты деятельности главного банка страны, его относительная независимость, а также присвоение ему ...
Коковин, К. В. +1 more
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Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
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Privatisation and restructuring of water supply in Russia and Ukraine [PDF]
Examines the problems and policy issues in the water sector on Russia and Ukraine, the experiences with privatisation and reform so far, the activities of international institutions, and of multinational and Russian companies in the water ...
Hall, David, Popov, Vladimir
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ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
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What Determines Public Education Expenditures in Russia? [PDF]
Recent studies suggest that the allocation of expenditures in education is important for growth. The state of public education spending in many transition economies highlights the need for an assessment of the nature of education expenditures in these ...
Chowdhury, Abdur, Verbina, Inna
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ABSTRACT We investigate the establishment of public audit oversight bodies (POBs) worldwide. We present descriptive evidence on POBs’ characteristics and factors influencing the timing of their establishment, finding that countries with stronger institutions, civil law traditions, and higher media attention to audit quality adopt POBs faster.
ELIZABETH CARSON +4 more
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SHADOW BANKING IN RUSSIA: FACTORS OF PROPAGATION, POSSIBILITIES OF REGULATION
The article describes the specifics of the development in Russia of parallel or alternative banking, referred to as «Shadow Banking» in the world practice.
M. A. Abramova, M. V. Mamuta
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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume IV, Issue 14 [PDF]
This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
Cavan, Susan +7 more
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Compelling private sport speech
Abstract The intermingling of sport and political speech has become increasingly poignant. Although basketball star Michael Jordan has now clarified that his famous statement that “Republicans buy sneakers, too” was made in jest when asked about why he did not make political statements, Michael Jordan was well within his rights to avoid the political ...
Thomas A. Baker III +2 more
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley +10 more
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