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What is driving global obesity trends? Globalization or “modernization”?

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2019
BackgroundWorldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. Researchers have attributed rising obesity rates to factors related to globalization processes, which are believed to contribute to obesity by flooding low-income country markets with ...
Ashley M. Fox, Wenhui Feng, Victor Asal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Threats, Monsters and the ‘Refugee Crisis’

open access: yesTilburg Law Review, 2017
Boaventura de Sousa Santos treated Tilburg University to a colorful and rich pallet of topics during his Montesquieu lecture that prompted self-reflection and critical review of the role of law in our western societies.
Conny Rijken
doaj   +1 more source

David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and 'The Novel of Globalization': biopower and the Secret History of the Novel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
David Mitchell's debut novel Ghostwritten (1999) not only depicts a globalized world; its peculiar formal organization also embodies the mode of relatedness that characterizes globalization. This article shows that the invisible, decentralized power that
Vermeulen, Pieter
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Globalization for geometric partial comodules

open access: yes, 2021
We discuss globalization for geometric partial comodules in a monoidal category with pushouts and we provide a concrete procedure to construct it, whenever it exists.
Saracco, Paolo, Vercruysse, Joost
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Challenging Islamist Populism in Indonesia through Catholic Youth Activism

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper reports data from a study of young Catholic activists. They were concerned about the expansion of Islamist populism in democratic Muslim-majority Indonesia.
Pam Nilan, Gregorius Ragil Wibowanto
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Globalization Report 2016: Who Benefits Most from Globalization? Bertelsmann Policy Brief #2018/02 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The globalization report appears regularly and sets an authoritative standard for the comprehensive analysis of current globalization issues and global economic development. The 2016 globalization report comes in two parts.
Böhmer, Michael   +4 more
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Globalization, Outsourcing, and Wage Inequality

open access: yes, 1996
There is considerable debate over whether international trade has contributed to the declining economic fortunes of less skilled workers. One issue that has become lost in the current discussion is how firms respond to import competition and how these ...
R. Feenstra, Gordon H. Hanson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Plotinus and Wang Yangming on the Structures of Consciousness and Reality

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2023
In this paper, particular key aspects of the philosophies of Plotinus and Wang Yangming have been analysed comparatively on the basis of important passages of their works.
David Bartosch
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Globalizations for partial (co)actions on coalgebras [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper, we introduce the notion of globalization for partial module coalgebra and for partial comodule coalgebra. We show that every partial module coalgebra is globalizable exhibiting a standard globalization.
Castro, Felipe, Quadros, Glauber
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Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries

open access: yes, 2007
The authors discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. They begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality.
P. Goldberg, Nina Pavcnik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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