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Foreign Aid at a Crossroads: How Funding Cuts Reshape Global Development Cooperation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent aid budget reductions among major donor countries have reignited debates over the future of international development cooperation, with several commentators warning of an impending collapse of the aid sector. Engaging with historical and critical development literature on aid cycles, donor motives, and the evolution of Official ...
Steffi Hamann
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Look to Norway™. Current Norwegian foreign cultural policy
, 2017 The thesis Look to NorwayTM Current Norwegian foreign cultural policy (2017) investigates the field of foreign cultural policy. Culture and the arts have had a continuous prominent position within foreign policy and diplomacy as they have been considered to have central representative functions, both mirroring and constituting national cultural ...
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, 2021 This master’s thesis examines the influence of the Norwegian Shipping Association in the context of the boycott law sanctioned on the 20th of March 1987. The law was a result of decades of heated debate and in the process prelude to the law several actors tried to influence foreign policy decisions, amongst them the NSA. The influence of the NSA before
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Innovation-systems, path-dependency and policy: The co-evolution of science, technology and innovation policy and industrial structure in a small, resource-based economy [PDF]
This paper analyses the co-evolution of science, technology and innovation policy and industrial structure in a small, resource-based economy (Norway). The contributions of the paper are threefold.
Bart Verspagen +2 more
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Laos legislative drafting programme [PDF]
, 1994 Draft documents, proposals, notes, and other various papers related to the Seidman's efforts to develop a legislative drafting programme in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) between 1994 and 1997. This project was developed with support from the Lao
Seidman, Ann, Seidman, Robert B.
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The Impact of Disclosure on Diversity: Evidence From the Canada Business Corporations Act
Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the impact of a 2020 “comply‐or‐explain” disclosure mandate implemented in Canada. This regulation imposed the first disclosure mandate extending beyond gender diversity to include racial diversity. Using federally registered public firms as a treatment group and provincially registered public firms as a control group, we establish ...
Thomas Bourveau +2 more
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The 1990’s financial crises in Nordic countries [PDF]
The current financial crisis, which has lasted almost one and a half years, is the 19th such crisis in the post-war period in advanced economies. Recent literature classifies the Nordic crises in Norway, Sweden and Finland in late 1980's and early 1990’s
Honkapohja, Seppo
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regulators are increasingly considering and mandating additional public tax disclosures to enhance transparency and promote scrutiny of corporate tax avoidance. We conducted three experiments to examine how such disclosures influence retail investors' perceptions of firms with identical effective tax rates but different tax avoidance methods ...
Bart Dierynck +4 more
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Aggressiv disrupsjon og nasjonal sikkerhet i det nye trusselbildet
MagmaDenne artikkelen er en strategisk trusselanalyse av Norges nye og forverrede sikkerhetssituasjon. Noe endret seg klart til det verre i Europa og det globale sikkerhetsbildet på 2010-tallet, med vidtrekkende konsekvenser for norsk samfunnsliv, utenriks ...
Anders Romarheim
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Abacus, EarlyView.We investigate the effects of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) international inspection access on the value of cash holdings for non‐US companies. Utilizing a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) research design, we find that investors assign significantly higher value to a non‐US company's cash holdings when the company's non‐US ...
Hsiao‐Tang Hsu, Huichi Huang, Yutao Li
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