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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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Waqf Financing Expenditure and its Impact on Government Debt
European Journal of Islamic Finance, 2019 The Malaysian debt has been under scrutiny since the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal; placing pressure on the research for sustainable debt.
Azniza Hartini Azrai Azaimi Ambrose +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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China Journal of Accounting Research, 2016 China’s slowing economic growth and rapid urbanization have made local government debt financing a significant issue. This study uses a sample of China’s provincial government data for the 2006–2012 period to examine the effect of the disclosure of ...
Zhibin Chen +3 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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The Optimum Structure For Government Debt [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 This article studies the structural differences between implicit and explicit government debt in a two-generations-overlapping model with stochastic factor-prices. If a government can issue safe bonds and new claims to wage-indexed social security to service a given initial obligation, there exists a set of Pareto-efficient ways to do so.
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Local government finance in Japan : Can irresponsible borrowing be avoided? [PDF]
Rapidly rising local government debt in Japan presents a nontrivial addition to the central government debt. The planned replacement of the approval system for local government bor- rowing by a `consultation system´ in FY 2006 does not remove the ...
Robaschik, Frank, Yoshino, Naoyuki
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Understanding the paradox of primary teacher shortage in low‐income countries: Insights from Malawi
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Malawi faces a persistent and chronic teacher shortage, particularly at the primary school level, with much of the challenge attributed to teacher supply constraints. While the causes of teacher shortages are known to be complex and context‐dependent, there remains a lack of in‐depth, country‐specific research to guide effective policies ...
Peter Mtika, Edward M. Sosu
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The intersection of economic conditions and early years education has long been debated, particularly where financial constraints shape educational practice and professional realities. Türkiye, characterised by high inflation and structural vulnerabilities in purchasing power parity, provides a critical context for examining how economic ...
Ebru Aydın, Şerif Yüksel
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Renegotiating the Odious Debt Doctrine [PDF]
, 2007 Following the United States\u27 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq,\u27 the US government argued that the successor government in Iraq was not responsible for Iraq\u27s Saddam-era debt under the purported doctrine of odious-regime debt.
Cheng, Tai-Heng
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