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Towards the Democratisation of Care? Insights From Co‐Governance in Local Welfare in Spain and Italy

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The organisation and distribution of care responsibilities represent a central issue in contemporary welfare debates. Although welfare systems have progressively sought to socialise care related risks tackling distribution's inequality, the organisation of care services received less attention.
Francesca Donati   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reallocation Effects of Internalizing Externalities: Evidence From China's Straw Burning Ban

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the reallocation effects of a typical environmental policy aiming to internalize externalities: the straw burning ban across China. The ban prohibited the traditional farming practice of burning straw while compelling the labour‐intensive practice of straw utilization.
Wenyuan Hua
wiley   +1 more source

Government Policy, Low‐ and High‐Skilled Labour, and Technical Inefficiency in Chinese Agriculture, 1952–2008

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We utilize Chinese provincial data to explore how government policies affected grain production between 1952 and 2008. We adapt the Caselli‐Coleman framework to allow multiple inputs including fertilizer, land and capital as well as skilled and unskilled labour.
Yulong Chen, Peter F. Orazem
wiley   +1 more source

Mission Impossible? Promoting Global Sustainable Development in Times of National Industrial Policies

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that the growing space for industrial policies, at least in its present form and shape, is unlikely to promote sustainable development in most Global South countries, especially in the smaller economies. This claim builds on those who have thought about structural transformations for and from the Global South throughout ...
Nicolás M. Perrone
wiley   +1 more source

China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
wiley   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

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