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From Connectivity to Complexity: Supply Chain Digitalisation, Governance Capacity, and Climate Vulnerability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The complexity of the global supply chain system, coupled with advanced digitalisation makes it difficult to estimate its domino effects on climate vulnerability. A clear understanding of the possible climate vulnerability consequences generated all over the world is, however, a fundamental step toward building socio‐economic resilience and ...
Kingsley Imandojemu, Felix Orole
wiley   +1 more source

Pediatric Surgeons' Expectations of the EUPSA Global Surgery Committee Across World Bank Income Groups: A Two‐Round Modified Delphi Study

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
A two‐round modified Delphi study of paediatric surgeons from 68 countries identified six expectations of the EUPSA Global Surgery Committee. Across World Bank income groups, respondents prioritised sustainable capacity building through training and mentorship, supported by accessible guidelines, research collaboration, and context‐appropriate ...
G. Brisighelli   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of mangrove seedlings in natural, degraded, and restored ecosystems of Guyana

open access: yesGeology, Ecology, and Landscapes
Mangrove seedlings are exposed to several environmental stress factors, which frequently affect the current state of their ecosystems. We examined the density, diversity, distribution, survival rates, and biophysical parameters of over 900 naturally ...
Sabrina Dookie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising Indo‐Caribbean Identities Beyond the Homeland/Hostland Binary: Indo‐Guadeloupeans’ ‘Archipelagic Brown Consciousness’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of early initiation of breastfeeding at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in Guyana

open access: yesReproductive, Female and Child Health
Objective To assess the prevalence and factors associated with early initiation of breastfeeding at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Methods This study used data from an institution‐based cross‐sectional study conducted at GPHC from July to
Gary Joseph   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Guyana [PDF]

open access: yesIMF Staff Country Reports, 2018
Economic growth slowed down, but became more broad-based. In 2017, real GDP growth was 2.1 percent, with the non-mining GDP rebounding from its contraction in 2016. The external balance turned negative due to weaker than expected export growth and higher oil prices. Inflation remains relatively low, and the monetary stance accommodative. Oil production
openaire   +1 more source

Climate Negotiations Under Scrutiny: Are UNFCCC COPs Up To the Challenge?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) plays a crucial role in global efforts to tackle the climate crisis. At annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs) and intersessional meetings, the international community gathers to advance climate policy and action.
Franziska Petri, Jan Karlas
wiley   +1 more source

Glimpses of British Guiana at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886

open access: yesCulture & History Digital Journal, 2016
This paper uses the example of the British Guiana Court at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 as a case study to demonstrate how British Guiana (now Guyana) was represented in Britain at the time, by crossreferencing different materials (e.g ...
Sara Albuquerque
doaj   +1 more source

Monsters of finance

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
wiley   +1 more source

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