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Shared governance as a pathway to regional cooperation and development through the ItaipuCorpus

open access: yesDevelopment Policy Review, Volume 43, Issue 6, November 2025.
Abstract Motivation Cross‐border cooperation remains a critical challenge for sustainable development in regions marked by historical rivalries, geopolitical asymmetries, and socioenvironmental vulnerabilities. The Itaipu Binacional Hydroelectric Plant, jointly governed by Brazil and Paraguay, offers a unique case for examining how shared governance ...
Júlia Souza Luiz   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The far side of capitalism: Institutions and trade financing in Manila during the long eighteenth century

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1068-1087, November 2025.
Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Effect of Plain Terminology on Processing and Comprehension of Administrative Texts in Spanish: A Self‐Paced Reading Experiment

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 659-671, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Clear communication between government administrations and citizens is a challenge in democratic societies. Public administration texts often contain technical legal terms, essential to convey specialized knowledge with precision but often impenetrable to non‐experts.
Sabela Fernández‐Silva   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 152-178, February 2025.
Abstract We examine the Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 financial crisis using the British experience in the same episode as comparative context. We conclude that, notwithstanding some direct exposures by Amsterdam institutions to the principals of the London crisis, the main linkage between the two outbreaks was the requirement for cash margin on loans ...
Stein Berre, Paul Kosmetatos
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights

open access: yesCanadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 306-322, Autumn / automne 2024.
Abstract This paper reflects on the potential and limits of repatriating state‐sanctioned historical materials and repurposing them as “counter‐archives” for Indigenous communities. This proposal aligns itself with the epistemic shift in archival studies which promotes a processual approach to archiving (archive‐as‐subject) rather than an extractive ...
Léa Denieul‐Pinsky
wiley   +1 more source

Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham

open access: yesHistory, Volume 109, Issue 384-385, Page 34-58, April 2024.
Abstract Oaths of fidelity, homage and fealty were ubiquitous in late medieval England. Variously given by tenants, officeholders and retainers, such oaths represented a promise of loyalty and goodwill towards a lord. Individuals might make many such professions, perhaps as a tenant of one lord, an officer of another or a hired retainer of yet a third.
A.T. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Review of periodical literature for 2022: (ii) 1100–1500

open access: yes
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 335-346, February 2024.
Spike Gibbs
wiley   +1 more source

Translating property law terms: an investigation of Greek notarial deeds and their English translations

Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 2021
John O'Shea, Vilelmini Sosoni
exaly  

The Notarial Office in E-government: A Blockchain-Based Solution

IEEE Access, 2021
Quansi Wen, Yijian Chen, Ying Gao
exaly  

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