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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The reform of public institutions has attracted sustained attention in both scholarship and policymaking. Increasingly, however, there is growing recognition that reforms are rarely implemented in an institutional vacuum. Instead, new reforms are layered onto existing arrangements, producing hybrid institutional landscapes shaped by prior ...
Edidiong Bassey
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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma +2 more
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Housing aspiration in an informal urban settlement: A case study
Urbani Izziv, 2015 Housing aspiration is an important aspect of housing market analysis. However, there is a paucity of empirical research on housing aspiration among residents in informal settlements in developing countries.
Akunnaya P. OPOKO +2 more
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Dynamics, cycles and sunspot equilibria in "genuinely dynamic, fundamentally disaggregative" models of money [PDF]
This paper pursues a line of Cass and Shell, who advocate monetary models that are "genuinely dynamic and fundamentally disaggregative" and that incorporate "diversity among households and variety among commodities." Recent search-theoretic models fit ...
Randall Wright, Ricardo Lagos
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Hazard Perception and Demand for Insurance Among Selected Motorcyclists in Lagos, Nigeria [PDF]
, 2016 This study examines hazard perception effects on the demand for insurance withspecial focus on motorcycle riders in Lagos state. For this purpose, the researchershave been able to examine selected hazard perception determinants and theireffects on the ...
Ajemuningbohun, S. S. (Sunday) +2 more
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Pediatric Anesthesia, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Comprehensive pain management in children requires a specialized skillset, with a limited number of clinicians possessing the level of expertise required to successfully navigate the complexities of holistic care. The emergence of pediatric anesthesia fellowship programs in sub‐Saharan Africa presents an opportunity to embed a ...
Anisa Bhettay +24 more
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Search in asset markets: market structure, liquidity, and welfare [PDF]
This paper investigates how market structure affects efficiency and several dimensions of liquidity in an asset market. To this end, we generalize the search-theoretic model of financial intermediation of Darrell Duffie et al.
Guillaume Rocheteau, Ricardo Lagos
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Bayesian evidence and predictivity of the inflationary paradigm
, 2016 In this paper we consider the issue of paradigm evaluation by applying Bayes' theorem along the following nested hierarchy of progressively more complex structures: i) parameter estimation (within a model), ii) model selection and comparison (within a ...
Allison, Rupert +3 more
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Polymer International, EarlyView.Hybrid thin films of conjugated polymers and urease modified with eugenol derivatives show that polymer–biomolecule interactions enhance catalytic activity while distinctly modulating electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor sensor sensitivity. Abstract Thin films have emerged as promising platforms for biosensor development due to their versatility and ...
Thaísa da Silva de Souza +7 more
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