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Rural Kids and Wealth

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Wealth ownership is a critical component of economic well-being, and wealth in early adulthood provides important clues about the trajectories along which individuals move throughout their lives.
Lisa A. Keister   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Technical Debt Lead to the Rejection of Pull Requests? [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2016
Technical Debt is a term used to classify non-optimal solutions during software development. These solutions cause several maintenance problems and hence they should be avoided or at least documented. Although there are a considered number of studies that focus on the identification of Technical Debt, we focus on the identification of Technical Debt in
arxiv  

The Need for Holistic Technical Debt Management across the Value Stream: Lessons Learnt and Open Challenges [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
The long lifetime and the evolving nature of industrial products make them subject to technical debt at different levels. Despite multiple years of research on technical debt management, our industrial experience shows that introducing systematic technical debt management in a large-scale company is very challenging.
arxiv  

From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis

open access: yes, 2010
Newly developed long historical time series on public debt, along with modern data on external debts, allow a deeper analysis of the cycles underlying serial debt and banking crises.
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The impact of government debt on economic growth in Nigeria

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2020
This study investigated the effect of government debt on Nigeria’s economic growth using annual data from 1980 to 2018 and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag technique.
Abdulkarim Yusuf, Saidatulakmal Mohd
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Odious Debt Doctrine After Iraq [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The odious debt doctrine has experienced renewed popularity in the past few years; it has been heralded by academics, political commentators, economists, and politicians as a mechanism to alleviate burdens imposed by illegitimate rulers.
Damle, Jai
core   +1 more source

Beyond administrative burden: Activation and administrative harm

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐
Michael McGann, Sarah Ball
wiley   +1 more source

Community Impact Evaluation. Telling a stronger story

open access: yesCommunity Psychology in Global Perspective, 2019
This paper presents the Community Impact model, which provides a systematic evaluation of a programme or intervention and, consistent with Community Psychology methodologies, proposes new perspectives in selecting strategic tools to support systems ...
Patrizia Meringolo   +2 more
doaj  

Aspirations, inequality, and behavioral change: evidence from Colombia

open access: yesDevelopment Studies Research, 2022
In this article, I analyze why inequality can discourage investment. I derive my hypothesis from the theory of aspirations as a reference point. A more significant aspiration gap – the distance between the current state and the aspired state – leads to ...
Jaime Edison Rojas Mora
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling nominal debt contracts and fixed rate debt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
We provide a simple model of sticky nominal debt contracts and fixed rate debt that can easily be embedded in a dynamic general equilibrium framework. Once linearized, the debt process increases the order of autoregressive dynamics in the system by one ...
Graham, L., Wright, S.
core   +1 more source

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