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What determines women's participation in collective action? Evidence from a western Ugandan coffee cooperative [PDF]

, 2015
Women smallholders face greater constraints than men in accessing capital and commodity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Collective action has been promoted to remedy those disadvantages.
African Development Bank (AfDB) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Birchall Johnston, Bruynis Chris, Develtere Patrick, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Fulton Joan R., Hambly Odame Helen, Majurin Eva, Meier zu Selhausen Felix, Meinzen-Dick Ruth, Olson Mancur, Sen Amartya, Von Pischke J. D., World Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)   +13 more
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Meeting online or offline? Patterns and trends for co-resident couples in early 21st century Britain [PDF]

, 2020
Data from the 2010-12 National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (NATSAL-3) are used to document trends and patterns in where co-resident couples in Britain first met, focusing specifically on the rapid rise of meeting online, which both echoes ...
Lampard, Richard
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CSR Symbolism in Consumer‐Brand Identification in Fostering Brand Trust and Evangelism

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on the construal level theory, we proposed a conceptual model linking the relationships between perceived symbols in CSR communication, consumer‐brand identification, brand trust, and brand evangelism. We collected the data from the U.S. national population and employed an experimental design.
Md Merajur Rahman, Swagata Chakraborty
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Analysis of Metal Preloading Technologies in Batteries and Capacitors

EcoEnergy, EarlyView.
Metal preloading strategies play an important role in efficient batteries and hybrid capacitors to compensate for the consumed metals at the first discharge. This article reviews recent progress in preloading technologies in lithium‐ion and other metal‐ion systems.
Xuexue Pan, Yu Zhang, Zhazira Supiyeva, Qamar Abbas   +3 more
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Local search for stable marriage problems with ties and incomplete lists

, 2010
The stable marriage problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market.
A.E. Roth, D. Gale, D. Gusfield, D. Manlove, E. McDermid, H. Holger, K. Iwama   +6 more
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Framing Effects on Public Support and Behavioral Responses to Sustainable Forest Management in South Korea

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite South Korea's extensive forest coverage, which accounts for approximately 63% of its total land area, the country imports over 83% of its timber needs and has shown a gradual decline in forest carbon sequestration capacity. The Circular Forest Management Policy (CFMP) addresses these challenges through systematic forest resource ...
Seoryeon Son, Yoonseo Bae, Gayoung Won, Hee Han, Minki Yeo   +4 more
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Some Pluralism About Pluralism: A Comment on Hanoch Dagan’s “Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law” [PDF]

, 2013
Hanoch Dagan is among “those who think it advantageous to get as much ethics into the law as they can,” in the phrase of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. His pluralism is a perfectionism for polytheists: There are many human goods, and each has its domain ...
Purdy, Jedediah
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Coping Strategies of Delayed Transition-To-Work of Higher Institution Graduates in Sebeta, Oromia Region

Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities
The school-to-work transition marks a critical turning point, making young individuals’ shift from formal education to the labour market and their quest for economic independence. In Ethiopia, however, a growing number of higher education graduates,
Berhanu Girma, Kassahun Asres
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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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The role of marriage in immigrants' human capital investment under liquidity constraints [PDF]

, 2006
This paper presents a two-period human capital investment model of married and single immigrants under binding liquidity constraints, which explains alternative patterns in the host country's labor market.
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit, Gotlibovski, Chemi, Kahana, Nava   +2 more
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