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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead, David Jordan, Francis Kennedy, Jack Seddon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cirad Annual report 2013: Results and prospects [PDF]

, 2014
Eddi, Michel (ed.)
core   +1 more source

A series of (un)fortunate events: Commercial bank interest rates and deposit reallocation during the Great Depression in the Netherlands

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the global economic crisis of 1929–33, deposits in the Dutch commercial banking sector sharply declined as funds shifted to the government‐guaranteed Post Office Savings Bank and other savings institutions. Unlike earlier studies for neighbouring countries, we demonstrate that this shift was driven less by a flight to safety and more by
Ruben Peeters, Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cirad - Highlights 2016 : Activities report. Spotlight Tropical supply chains and sustainable development [PDF]

, 2017
Eddi, Michel
core   +1 more source

Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
wiley   +1 more source

Pest risk assessment made by France on Banana streak virus (BSV) considered by France as harmful in French overseas departments of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion ‐ Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Plant Health

, 2008
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
openalex   +1 more source

Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck, Guillaume Daudin, Gerhard de Kok, David Richardson, Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Antillanité to the Archipelagic

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
The pervasive patterns of neocolonialism long at work in the Francophone Caribbean, whereby the islands have been overseas departments of France for over seventy-five years, operate through a strategic metropolitan praxis of prohibition and exclusion ...
H. Adlai Murdoch
doaj   +1 more source

Pest risk assessment made by France on Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) considered by France as harmful in the French overseas department of Réunion - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Plant Health

, 2008
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
openalex   +1 more source

Work–Life Fragility, Dilemmas, and “Gambling” at the Intersection of Fertility Treatment and Employment

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Infertility is a working age population issue, meaning that many individuals undergoing fertility treatment are also in paid work—having to navigate conflicts between two often “greedy institutions,” which can both bring precarity. Traditional approaches to examining the work–life interface, focusing mainly on temporal issues, fail to account ...
Krystal Wilkinson, Clare Mumford, Michael Carroll   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source