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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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Heritage language maintenance in the Inner Circle: a scoping review of Chinese and its varieties. [PDF]
Song X.
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Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
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Maintaining ethnic identity amid additive multilingualism: language attitudes and ethnolinguistic vitality among the Hmong of northern Vietnam. [PDF]
Yu J, Ma X, Bo W.
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Abstract Research Summary Scholars often examine how entrepreneurs' existing ties predict resource acquisition. We investigated the reverse: How does the act of pitching generate new ties with investors? Using the context of the Slow Money community, we analyzed social entrepreneurs' pitches to impact investors.
Esther Leibel +2 more
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The importance of Spanish-language similarity in friend selection. [PDF]
Faur S, Laursen B.
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Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis +1 more
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ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
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Medical Interpreting in Primary Care: Design and Validation of a Replicable Training Program. [PDF]
Hardin DM +4 more
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ABSTRACT The actualization of innovation in social systems requires interventions within small systems, communities and organizations. At this scale, practitioners can engage directly with the interactions, communication and dialogue among key actors, including those with conflicting interests.
Moein Nedaei
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