Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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Health financing policies for aging populations: a comparative study of seven countries. [PDF]
Nayebi BA +3 more
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Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Older Adult Mortality in Rural Mexico. [PDF]
Menares F +5 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Does public pension crowd out the participation of older adults in community volunteering? Evidence from China. [PDF]
Li ZY, Tang YY, Yang HL, Tang LL.
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Fertility intention and its determinants of childbearing-age population in China after the three-child policy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Ren J +7 more
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Pension fund state estimation and optimal investment strategy
A design and utilization of a mathematical model of the contribution defined pension fund is treated. The mathematical model respects the specific character and economical rules of supplementary pension system in the Czech Republic.
Marek Lešek, Miroslav Šimandl
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