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New Use of an Old Italian Invention: The double-entry bookkeeping used to monitor and secure financial stability of the new Swedish pay-as-you-go pension plan [PDF]
Settergren, Ole
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ABSTRACT Literature on the social construction of skilled migration has demonstrated how the selective admission of ‘skilled migrants’ by host states produces unequal outcomes, admitting some as ‘skilled’ while excluding others with seemingly similar qualifications.
Yusuke Mazumi
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Advancing genetic engineering with active learning: theory, implementations and potential opportunities. [PDF]
Du Q, Wang H, Jiang B, Wang X.
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Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses
Drawing on the theory of practical reasons, John Gardner has offered a seminal account of excuses in criminal law. His proposal is that an excuse asserts that the defendant acted for what she justifiably believed to be sufficient reason for her to perform the offending act although she had no such reason.
Andreas Vassiliou
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Abstract Ecosystem condition is an important concept for understanding the impacts and dependencies of business on biodiversity and consideration of it is recommended by assessment and disclosure frameworks, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and Global Reporting ...
Jacob Bedford +6 more
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Nature on the balance sheet: Accountability for Nature Positive
Abstract Nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy, prompting calls for enhanced business accountability. To support the urgent business transformations required to achieve Nature Positive goals, decision‐makers, investors, lenders and other stakeholders need consistent, comparable and decision‐useful information on the state of nature and
Greg Smith +6 more
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Integrating biodiversity and business: Emerging methods driving the nature economy
Abstract Biodiversity is increasingly recognised as a material (i.e. significant) risk to corporate value creation due to links with climate risk, land use and social equity, and through growing engagement with frameworks, such as the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosure and Science‐Based Targets Network.
Sarah Luxton +2 more
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Feral Territories: The Suburbanization of Nature in Eastern Bangkok
ABSTRACT Between the 1960s and 1980s, American and international financial and technical assistance spurred men with means to bring together concrete, asphalt, timber, and steel to construct unplanned, poorly serviced (because they were unplanned), and expensive subdivisions at the outskirts of what was then central Bangkok.
Samson Lim
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The Making of Corporate Legal Concession Theory. [PDF]
Hardman J.
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ABSTRACT Gender segregation is a persistent form of labour market inequality, though patterns differ across time and economic sectors. Focusing on the care economy and the technology sector, we examine longitudinal trends in gender distributions for educational credentials and occupational participation.
Neil Guppy +3 more
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