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What is driving global obesity trends? Globalization or “modernization”?
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
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Threats, Monsters and the ‘Refugee Crisis’
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
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David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and 'The Novel of Globalization': biopower and the Secret History of the Novel [PDF]
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
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
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]
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
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
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Plotinus and Wang Yangming on the Structures of Consciousness and Reality
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]
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
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
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