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HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken   +2 more
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Early-Stage Globalization and Corporate Debt Maturity: The Case of South Korea, 1980-94 [PDF]

Using data from publicly traded South Korean corporations for the period 1980-94, this paper finds evidence that increases in financial liberalization that accompanied the more general process of financial globalization have significantly reduced the ...
Federico Guerrero
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CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of financial liberalization on banking sectors performance from central and eastern European countries. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2013
Andries AM, Capraru B.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Future of Financial Liberalization in South Asia [PDF]

The paper defines financial liberalization, distinguishing between liberalization of domestic financial markets and capital account convertibility. It then examines the stages and the strategy of Indian financial reform.
Ashima Goyal
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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Macroeconomic aspects of financial liberalization [PDF]

The positive and the negative macroeconomic aspects of the financial liberalization for the developing and emerging economies are well described in the present literature.
Rajmund Mirdala
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Pass‐Through of Cocoa Prices Along the Supply Chain: What's Left for Farmers in Côte d'Ivoire?

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are trapped in a cycle of poverty and farming practices that degrade the environment. This paper aims to provide an in‐depth understanding of the price formation process for cocoa at each stage of the supply chain in the world's largest cocoa‐producing country.
Kathrin Kaestner, Gunther Bensch, Colin Vance   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Structure and Performance of Ethiopia's Financial Sector in the Pre- and Post-Reform Period with a Special Focus on Banking [PDF]

financial sector development, growth, banking, financial liberalization, Ethiopia ...
Geda, Alemayehu
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
wiley   +1 more source