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Regional Sustainable Economic Development in the Caribbean? A Discursive Inquiry

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Caribbean region is governed by several regional bodies. Among the more important organizations for small island states, where coral reefs and ocean conservation are paramount, is the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Currently, the region is going through critical environmental changes that bring important vulnerabilities.
Peter J. Jacques, Audrey Copeland
wiley   +1 more source

Legal aspects of central banking in Slovenia and Croatia from their beginnings up to euro-area membership

open access: yesCroatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, 2012
The right to regulate the monetary system represents one of the immanent features of state sovereignty. A central bank is an institution that is usually given the authority to conduct a country’s monetary policy.
Meta Ahtik   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Kulturelle Transformationsprozesse in der Geldgeschichte des vorislamischen Asien. Iran – Baktrien – Indien

open access: yesHistoria.scribere, 2012
The following paper examines processes of exchange and transfer of cultural patterns, forms of representation and religious concepts via commerce and monetary systems.
Matthias Hoernes
doaj   +2 more sources

Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

Modernizing environmental data management for ecological research, management, and conservation at regional scales

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
We developed a web GIS system that delivers geospatial data for Wyoming and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) using cloud‐optimized formats and open‐source tools to support regional ecological research and management. Using pronghorn as an example, we combined observed locations with environmental covariates from our geospatial library to map ...
Jessie S. Shapiro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The state’s role in digital finance: observer, regulator, and participant (Russia’s and foreign countries’ cases)

open access: yesВестник университета
The evolution of the state’s role in digital finance from a passive observer to an active regulator and a full participant in the digital market has been studied.
B. B. Loginov
doaj   +1 more source

Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
wiley   +1 more source

Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming the Global Trilemma: New Monetary Politics in the Anthropocene: Dani Rodrik Revised

open access: yesCadmus, 2019
This paper will review the concept of the “open economic trilemma” between national sovereignty, global integration and democratic politics. It will introduce, as a possible solution, the concept of a parallel dual currency system operating through new
Stefan Brunnhuber
doaj  

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