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Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the “quiet” politics of the pre‐2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become “noisy”. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them?
Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft
wiley   +1 more source

Mahatma Gandhi's Modern Minimalist Philosophy and Its Influence on the Contemporary World

open access: yesKalagatos
Resumo Mahatma Gandhi, que liderou o famoso movimento de independência da Índia, desenvolveu uma filosofia profunda baseada nos princípios da não violência e da verdade, que juntos o elevaram a uma figura globalmente reconhecida, com influência muito ...
Bui Xuan Dung
doaj  

Accountability in the Delivery of Guaranteed Employment Through MGNREGA in Rural India

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use the uneven rollout of accountability measures to identify their impact on the provision of guaranteed employment in rural Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India. A public information campaign combined with an NGO‐supported grievance mechanism resulted in treated households working over 10 additional days per year in the program. We find no
Tara Bedi, Lukas Kuld
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Monopsony Power: Evidence From China

open access: yesReview of International Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the effect of trade liberalization on firms' monopsony power in the labor market. We estimate firm‐specific markdowns from production data in the manufacturing industry and document the trends in China between 1998 and 2007. Taking China's entry to the WTO as a policy shock, we use a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) approach combined ...
Pengzhan Qian, Dan Xie
wiley   +1 more source

Renal elasticity assessment in patients of glomerulonephritis by shear-wave elastography and its correlation with histopathology and renal biomarkers. [PDF]

open access: yesWorld J Nephrol
Prasad R   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Moral Tolerance: The Ethics of Social Punishment in Cases of Moral Disagreement

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many practical contemporary contexts, people need to make correct ethical judgements about how to respond to perceived wrongdoing—in particular, whether to punish it or tolerate it. This judgement can be challenging when the wrongdoer does not accept the allegation of wrongdoing at the level of moral principle, holding that the type of ...
Hugh Breakey, Graham Wood
wiley   +1 more source

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