Radiotherapy access in Latin America: Socio-economic determinants and equity challenges socio-economic determinants in Latin America for radiotherapy. [PDF]
Sarria GR +9 more
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Regional Trade Agreements and International R&D Spillovers: Implications for Developing Countries
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
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Significant but small: the modest impact of population ageing on reported COVID-19 case rates worldwide. [PDF]
You W, Donnelly F, Garcia L, Chang R.
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Purchasing Power Parity Tests in Cointegrated Panels
P. Pedroni
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Antibiotic Exposure in Early Life and Risk of Type 1 Diabetes: A Meta‐Analysis
ABSTRACT Background Early‐life antibiotic use may increase the risk of childhood type 1 diabetes (T1D), potentially through gut microbiota dysbiosis and associated effects on immune development. This meta‐analysis evaluated associations between early‐life antibiotic use and T1D.
Sharan Ram +5 more
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Epidemiology and Economic Burden of Sleep Disorders in Europe. [PDF]
Bassetti CLA +14 more
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Golden weapons and golden fetters: From the gold standard to the new geopolitics
Abstract This paper explores the historical relationship between monetary regimes, security concerns, and geopolitical tensions, particularly focusing on the role of gold. Throughout history, monetary systems have been deeply intertwined with international state systems and security provisions.
Harold James
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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74
Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead +3 more
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Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43
Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
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