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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Online Freelancers' Labour Agency at the Intersection of Platforms, Wider Labour Markets, and Households: Evidence From the Philippines

New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on the labour agency of remote‐based online freelancers has often struggled to account for the interplay between platform dynamics, broader labour market conditions, and gendered household responsibilities. This article addresses this gap by proposing an integrated analytical framework that synthesises these dimensions to examine how ...
Jorien H. Oprins
wiley   +1 more source

MONEY LAUNDERING, PREDICATE OFFENCES AND PROFESSIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING PERPETRATORS

Iustinianus Primus Law Review
Money laundering is a serious offence mostly connected to organized crime that undermines financial integrity and markets, and erodes public trust in institutions.
Aleksandra Deanoska Trendafilova
doaj  

A Tale of Two Cities: Australian Evidence on the Effects of Lockdown on Grocery Inflation

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the economic implications of COVID‐19, the inflationary consequences of lockdown remain underexplored. Prior impact assessments may be compromised due to the cross‐jurisdictional presence of lockdowns and the prevalence of the coronavirus.
Chew Lian Chua, Sarantis Tsiaplias
wiley   +1 more source

SPECIFICITIES OF MONEY LAUNDERING IN THE BANKING SECTOR

Pravo, 2017
THE aim of this paper is to point out the basic peculiarities of money laundering in the banking sector. Money laundering is a global problem to which no country in the world is immune.
Aleksandar Zirojević
doaj  

Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
wiley   +1 more source

e‐Government Adoption in Ghana: Structural Conditions and Employee Affective Orientation

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, technological innovations are driving governments towards e‐government adoption. Digitization efforts have met with more resistance and challenges in the Global South context due to high levels of financial, logistical, and technical constraints.
Sandy Zook, Peter Adjei‐Bamfo, Thema Monroe‐White, Justice N. Bawole   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Business Breaks the Rules: The Value of a Criminology‐Informed “Organizational” Perspective for the Regulation of White‐Collar and Corporate Crimes

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that if the aspiration is to enhance regulatory and governance responses to white‐collar and corporate crimes, consideration of the organization of these offending behaviors must be central to the scholarly, practice, and policy discussion.
Nicholas Lord, Michael Levi
wiley   +1 more source

The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT States, firms, and other types of governors routinely rely on intermediaries to govern issues on their behalf. Such indirect governance drives regime complexity: governors frequently enlist multiple intermediaries for governing an issue. I theorize that governors foster complexity to maximize utility from indirect governance.
David Hagebölling
wiley   +1 more source

Embedded Banking Security Level Index and Aimed Control Template for Banking Systems – Implementation Evaluation Using the Vroom-Yetton-Jago Contingency Model [PDF]

An embedded Banking Security Level Index (B-SLI) and Aimed Control (AC) scheme for banking systems is proposed in this paper. In this design the B-SLI and AC anti money laundering techniques are fused together and used in sequence to expose a threat and ...
Daniel Rece, Ion Stancu
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