Linkage Between Electoral Cycle and the Discouragement of African Firms in the Credit Market
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the linkage between the electoral cycle and the discouragement of SMEs in the credit market of 14 African countries. It focuses on 12,145 firms over the period 2006–2020. The results obtained from Probit estimates show elections are negatively linked with the discouragement of firms in the credit market.
Cherif Abdramane, Simplice A. Asongu
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From Food Fears to Food Freedom: How Do We Best Manage Restrictive Eating in Inflammatory Bowel Disease? [PDF]
Simons M, Issokson K.
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ABSTRACT Establishing voluntary labor standards depends on securing the voluntary engagement of multiple actors with potentially diverging interests. This paper examines the legitimation politics and processes surrounding attempts to develop local labor standards through an empirical study of local employment charters in England.
Ceri Hughes +2 more
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Crafting effective regulatory policies for psychedelics: What can be learned from the case of cannabis? [PDF]
Andrews CM +3 more
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Abstract Research on democratic backsliding and on EU counter‐actions is growing rapidly, but we have only begun to understand how EU actions are taken up in domestic political debates in backsliding member states. Our research builds on the assumption that the framing of these debates contributes to the (de‐)legitimation of EU actions and thus has ...
Michael Blauberger, Arndt Wonka
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Immigrant workers in the meat industry during COVID-19: comparing governmental protection in Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA. [PDF]
Gottlieb N +5 more
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Abstract We examine the dimensionality of the EU external relations space by analysing trade policy votes in the European Parliament (1999–2019). As it contains the EU's full geographical and ideological diversity, the European Parliament is an important laboratory for testing expectations about what predicts divisions over trade policy.
Simon Otjes +2 more
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Obesity Kuznets Curve conjecture assessment in African economies: conditioning effects of urbanization, food, and trade using gender-based regional analysis. [PDF]
Wang W +7 more
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Trade liberalization and total factor productivity in Brazil: A vecm modeling. [PDF]
Oliveira de Almeida E +3 more
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Economic review of the tariff liberalization of the import of wood and wood products: Evidence from a developing country. [PDF]
Soltanizadeh A, Moosavi SN, Najafi B.
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