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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In emerging economies where smallholder farming dominates agricultural production, agribusinesses serve as critical intermediaries linking smallholders to broader markets, and their resilience directly affects agricultural sustainability. Short‐term‐oriented capital is reluctant to adequately finance highly uncertain and cyclical agricultural ...
Siyuan Lyu +5 more
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Pension funds: conceptions of risk and the demand for ‘alternatives’
Revista de Economía Mundial, 2017 The expansion and innovation of financial markets is closely linked to the growth of pension funds. While the conventional narrative is based on the notion of financial development as a positive change, this paper argues that pension funds may induce ...
Bruno Bonizzi, Jennifer Churchill
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC) encompasses several hundred conditions with diverse genetic, pathophysiological, and clinical origins. The overarching EXPLAIN study explores underlying causes and implications of AMC and represents the largest clinical cohort of adults with AMC reported to date.
My Vuong Hermansen +5 more
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Evaluation of second pillar pension funds’ supply and investment strategies in Baltics
Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2017 Pension accumulation companies in Baltics are allowed to offer any number of second pillar pension funds with different investment strategies. Funds are traditionally categorized by maximum limit of investments in equities.
Teodoras Medaiskis, Tadas Gudaitis
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster +4 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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The political origin of pension funding [PDF]
Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2008 This paper argues that historical political preferences on the role of capital marketsshaped national choices on pension reliance on private funding.Under democratic voting, a majority will support investor protection and a privatelyfunded pension system when the middle class has significant financial participation,while high wealth concentration ...
Perotti, E., Schwienbacher, A.
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Non-Governmental Pension Support as an Element of Multitier Pension System
Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2023 Non-governmental pension funds (N-GPF) act as an important tool for resolving social problems in the field of pension support. Today 39 non-governmental pension funds work in Russia. All of them have got licenses for their operation.
I. V. Balashova, T. A. Tereshchenko
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Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
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