Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
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When austerity becomes a public health threat: the case of Ecuador. [PDF]
Front Public HealthOrtiz-Prado E +2 more
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The Greek Crisis: Causes and Implications [PDF]
This paper presents and critically discusses the origins and causes of the Greek fiscal crisis and its implications for the euro currency as well as the SEE economies.
Georgios P. Kouretas, Prodromos Vlamis
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Dynamics of Transnational Labour Migration Revisited from a Crisis Complex Perspective
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article uses the notion of crisis complex to analyse the relationship between labour migration and crisis from an institution‐ and process‐oriented perspective. Such an interrogation is timely, given the increasingly crisis‐prone dynamics shaping global labour systems and migration governance, including recruitment, skills recognition and
Ioana Jipa‐Muşat, Nicola Piper
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Health equity and the global social contract: beyond incrementalism and illusionary solidarity. [PDF]
Int J Equity HealthMulumba M +4 more
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Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract We build an endogenous growth model that distinguishes productive and welfare government expenditures and embeds fiscal externalities. The model yields three testable hypotheses: (i) productive expenditure raises growth (Barro effect); (ii) productive expenditure generates cross‐country productivity spillovers; (iii) government expenditure ...
Xiaodong Chen, Haoming Mi, Peng Zhou
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Fiscal stress as a catalyst for public service provision in China: evidence from the VAT reform. [PDF]
Front SociolCai X, Zhang B, Yang J.
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The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green +3 more
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Inclusive leadership and financial-marketing decision-making in crises: gender diversity and brand resilience. [PDF]
Front PsycholJaveed A +3 more
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The Simple Macroeconomics of Fiscal Austerity, Public Sector Debt and Deflation [PDF]
This paper explores the macroeconomics of fiscal austerity and deflation in an economy with public debt. A binding budget deficit cap destabilizes the economy by turning the government budget into an automatic destabilizer.
Thomas I. Palley
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