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Analysis of the efficiency and influencing factors of the urban and rural residents social endowment insurance in China: from the perspective of regional heterogeneity. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Dai A, Hu Y, Xie H, Zhao W, Keskin B.
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Learning to Stand on its own Two Feet: The Office for Students and the Crisis in Higher Education in England

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 206-210, January/March 2025.
Abstract In order to address an ever‐growing crisis in higher education in England, policy makers need tools capable of meeting the challenge. Yet the Office for Students has been roundly criticised for its shortcomings as a regulator for the sector, weakening the response to its plethora of problems.
Timothy J. Oliver
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Iran's health service financing policies for the elderly: Applying David Easton's political system model. [PDF]

J Educ Health Promot
Khodayari-Zarnaq R, Hajizadeh M, Najafi B, Nayebi BA, Yaghoubi R.   +4 more
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What Are Select Committees For?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The modern select committee system in the UK House of Commons was introduced in 1979 to deepen opportunities for backbench MPs to hold government to account and strengthen Parliament vis‐à‐vis the executive. However, select committees play a much bigger role in parliamentary life.
Marc Geddes
wiley   +1 more source

African experiments in infrastructure financialisation: an urbanisation of debt in Malawi. [PDF]

Financ Space
Lane M, Mwathunga E, Robinson J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The universal health coverage crossroads for Mauritius, a small island developing state: progress, paradox, and the path forward. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Nundoochan A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

How do children's cohabitation and family asset reserves impact rural individuals' participation in commercial pension insurance? [PDF]

Front Public Health
Feng C, Zhang Y, Yang L, Wu L, Liu B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source