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Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge

Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
wiley   +1 more source

Submerged geomorphic record of Quaternary palaeoshorelines: terraces and clinothems along a shelf‐edge in the Žirje Archipelago, Adriatic Sea

Boreas, EarlyView.
Numerous studies have shown that during the Quaternary there were substantial fluctuations in sea level in response to glacial–interglacial climate variability, reaching lowstand positions up to 134 m below the present sea level (b.s.l.). These fluctuations have had a strong influence on the morphology of shallow shelf seas, which preserve evidence of ...
Ozren Hasan, Dea Brunović, Natalia Smrkulj, Maria Geraga, Dimitris Christodoulou, Nikolina Ilijanić, George Papatheodorou, Slobodan Miko   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas, Maha El Tantawi, Manami Hoshi‐Harada, Kenji Takeuchi, Ken Osaka, Carol C. Guarnizo‐Herreño, Marco A. Peres   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Burden in Dental Care: Global Determinants, Policy Interventions and Access Inequities—A Scoping Review

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Access to dental care is often limited by financial, structural and social factors, contributing to persistent oral health inequalities globally. This scoping review systematically maps and synthesizes how financial pressures influence access, service utilization and oral health outcomes, particularly among underserved and vulnerable
Karthik Madhavan, Sheryl Ann Sajan
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiological Significance of the Fox (<i>Vulpes vulpes</i>) in the Spread of Vector-Transmitted Zoonoses in the Area of Northern Croatia. [PDF]

Pathogens
Pavlak M, Prpić J, Matei IA, Trninić K, Ćurković S, Mihaljević Ž, Štritof Z, Vlahović K, Udiljak Ž, Jemeršić L.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Ten Year Overview of Adrenal Vein Sampling in Croatia: Insights and Outcomes

Clinical Endocrinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adrenal vein sampling (AVS) is the gold standard for subtype differentiation in primary aldosteronism (PA), yet it remains technically demanding and resource intensive. However, data on long‐term performance, learning curves, and concordance with imaging in real‐world clinical practice are limited.
Karin Zibar Tomsic, Ana Marija Alduk, Elvira Kresic, Ivana Kraljevic, Darko Kastelan   +4 more
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Regional Trade Agreements and International R&D Spillovers: Implications for Developing Countries

The Developing Economies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We provide new evidence on heterogeneous international research and development (R&D) spillovers from partners of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and non‐partners using a sample of 45 economies in the period 1995–2017. We construct separate R&D stocks for RTA partners and non‐partners and find that spillovers from RTA partners are stronger ...
Yukiko Sawada, Rinki Ito, Naoto Jinji
wiley   +1 more source

Musicians of Jewish Origin in Northern Croatia 1815 ‒ 1941

Arti Musices, 2017
Tamara Jurkić Sviben
doaj   +1 more source

On the Use of the Neglected Edible Plants <i>Soda inermis</i> Fourr. and <i>Bunias erucago</i> L. on the Adriatic Coast of Croatia. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Vitasović-Kosić I, Jug-Dujaković M, Dolina K, Ninčević Runjić T, Łuczaj Ł.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

State Capture and the Limits of Human Capital: Education and Institutional Quality in Post‐Socialist Europe

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the European Quality of Government Index across 183 NUTS‐2 regions (2010–2024), this paper documents that education improves institutional quality in Western Europe but not in postsocialist regions. Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition reveals that 77 percent of the West–East institutional gap reflects different returns to education, not ...
Nikolaos Tzivanakis
wiley   +1 more source