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Addressing low-value care (LVC) in Asia: a narrative review of Choosing Wisely and other initiatives across Asia. [PDF]

BMJ Open Qual
Yeo JX, Tokuda Y, Sasaki S, Pan J, Kamaruzaman H, Ranganathan P, Lu L, Mohamad Yusof A, Izaham A, Pramesh CS, Abdullah HR.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
wiley   +1 more source

ADMINISTRATION OF LOCAL TAXES AND FEES BY LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES

Public management and administration in Ukraine
Ya.M. Kaziuk, V.T. Ventsel
openaire   +1 more source

An assessment of the khat and vegetable trade in the local economic ecosystem: The case of northern Madagascar. [PDF]

PLoS One
Kotra CM, Gezon LL.
europepmc   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

The actual effect and mechanism of environmental protection taxes on carbon emission reduction: evidence from China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Luo J, Huang J, Zhang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

A landscape analysis of enablers and barriers to digital payments to health workers during large-scale immunisation campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review and in-depth interviews. [PDF]

Glob Health Action
Kiberu VM, Namuhani N, Ekirapa E, Aweko J, Opio C, Kanobe F, Wakholi P, Abuya T, Mcconnell M, Hamani A, Jama IH, Ediau M, Bello S, Adewol D, Fawole OI, Acray-Zengbe P, Arhinful D, Bediang G, Faye A, Mohamed Mboup FZ, Ndiaye S, Niang K, Obotela N'Sarhaza YG, Waiswa P.   +23 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source