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Concentration of Population in Capital Cities: Determinants and Economic Effects [PDF]

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This paper studies the impact and determinants of the concentration of population in capital cities across countries. Fast population growth in capital cities is a widespread phenomenon that does not seems to be explained by economic factors. In addition,
Rodrigo Cifuentes S
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The changing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population: evidence from the 2006–11 Australian Census Longitudinal Dataset [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Populations change and grow through time. Keeping track of this change and associated improvements or worsening in outcomes is a key role for statistical agencies and researchers, and is necessary for an informed and evidence-based policy debate. This is
Nicholas Biddle   +3 more
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The doctoral journey as decolonial praxis: Self‐formation of Global South students in UK higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research concerning Global South doctoral students in the United Kingdom has mainly situated their experiences within adaptationist paradigms, emphasising cultural adjustment and assimilation into Western academic norms. Such studies often depict students as passive recipients, overlooking their agency and the transformative potential
Peng Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Imagination and Support For Parliamentary Democracy In Poland

open access: yesManagement and Business Administration. Central Europe, 2014
Purpose: The article introduces a concept of the economic imagination, describes economic public attitudes and discusses the character of the contemporary economic imagination of Poles.
Andrzej K. Koźmiński   +1 more
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Biographies, ontological security and the socio‐spatial politics shaping teachers' mobility in remote Australia

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Economic Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries and Transition Economies [PDF]

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The economic growth rates have dramatically increased in developing economies, such as in Latin American, Asian, and Eastern European countries, following the financial liberalisation attempt, especially during the 1990s.
0smail Çevi_, Burak Çamurdan
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

Changing Determinants of the Economic Growth

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Information about a completed scientific project in the Institute of Economics at BAS 'Changing Determinants of the Economic Growth'. Author: senior researcher Rossitsa Rangelova, Dr. Ec. Sc. Reviewer: senior researcher Vassil Tsanov, PhD.
Economic Thought Editor
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Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Globalisation : trends, issues and macro implications for the EU [PDF]

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Globalisation, defined as an increasingly integrated world economy, has the potential to generate the largest structural upheaval in economies since the industrial revolution. As in the past, this process is being underpinned by both technological change
Werner R�ger   +2 more
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