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The Third Pillar Endowment Insurance Reform and Development Research

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 2021
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The Impact of Credit and Training on Farmers Efficiency: A Semi‐Parametric Meta‐Frontier Analysis

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several constraints, which affect their productivity. To reduce these constraints and enhance productivity, government and non‐governmental agencies implement programmes that provide credit and training to farmers.
Anthony Baffoe‐Bonnie, Genti Kostandini   +1 more
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Joint effect of physical capacity and physical activity predicts depression progression in middle-aged and older Chinese adults. [PDF]

J Glob Health
Ding X, Zhou H, Zhang R, Wu W, Chen Y.
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Lobbying and Political Risk Disclosure: Do Socially Responsible Firms Voluntarily Disclose More?

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on theories of strategic communication, legitimacy, impression management and moral capital, this study investigates whether firms use political risk disclosure to offset negative perceptions associated with corporate lobbying. Using a sample of 10,120 observations from 1362 US firms between 2002 and 2018, we find that firms with ...
Maretno A. Harjoto, Indrarini Laksmana, Hoyoung Kim, Sergio Garcia‐Vega, Andreas G.F. Hoepner   +4 more
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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Older people's preferences for elderly care mode in Northwest China: a multilevel analysis stratified by socioeconomic status. [PDF]

BMC Geriatr
Zhang J, Feng Y, Wang J, Yao J, Zhang J, Cheng H, Wang Y.   +6 more
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Does public spending on sports improve people's health? Empirical evidence from China. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Yang C.
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Association of physical activity levels with frailty index in elderly Chinese: evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS). [PDF]

BMC Geriatr
Li Q, Guan J, Wang R.
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