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Board diversity and performance of microfinance institutions (MFIS): Evidence from an emerging economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are important service providers of finance for unbanked people and have experienced a high growth over the past decades.
Locke, Stuart, Thrikawala, Sujani
core  

A nature‐positive world is more than the sum of its parts

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Adoption of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM‐GBF) has led to further growth in attention being directed to the challenge of bending the curve of biodiversity loss to achieve a nature‐positive world. However, concerns have been raised that, unless progress towards achieving net gain in biodiversity can be measured ...
Simon Ferrier
wiley   +1 more source

Rights, social policy and reproductive wellbeing: the Vietnam situation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Wellbeing Rights and Reproduction Research Paper ...
Locke, C., Zhang, H.X.
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Nature on the balance sheet: Accountability for Nature Positive

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy, prompting calls for enhanced business accountability. To support the urgent business transformations required to achieve Nature Positive goals, decision‐makers, investors, lenders and other stakeholders need consistent, comparable and decision‐useful information on the state of nature and
Greg Smith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of Civil Society in the West: History and Interpretation

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2014
The author considers the history of the idea of civil society in the West. The roots of the very concept, its evolution from Antiquity to Modernity, as well as its relation to the objective processes of social development are shown.
A. A. Vershinin
doaj  

Lockean Freedom and the Proviso’s Appeal to Scientific Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
I argue in this paper that Locke and contemporary Lockeans underestimate the problems involved in their frequent, implicit assumption that when we apply the proviso we use the latest scientific knowledge of natural resources, technology, and the economy ...
Varden, Helga
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

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