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Do political factors matter in explaining under- and overweight outcomes in developing countries?
The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2013 Highlights • We study the role played by political factors in shaping the BMI distribution.• We allow for differing covariate effects across the BMI distribution.• We allow for heteroskedasticity across macro regions.• Democratic systems reduce under ...
E. Fumagalli, E. Mentzakis, M. Suhrcke
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
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Media and CommunicationParticipatory budgeting (PB) is one of the most significant democratic innovations to enhance citizens’ influence on public policy, seeing renewed growth over the last decade by merging with digital participatory platforms.
Joel Peiruza-Parga +3 more
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Half glass empty? politics & institutions in the liberalization of the fixed line telecommunications industry in Turkey [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter reviews Turkish experience with reform of the fixed line telecommunications industry. It provides an account of earlier incoherent attempts to privatize the incumbent operator in the absence of any regulatory framework or political consensus.
Atiyas, İzak +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block +2 more
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Where Have All the Symbols Gone?: A Study of Sufis and Sufi Symbolism in Ottoman Miniature Paintings
, 2013 Ottoman miniature paintings represent some of the best preserved and documented works of Islamic art still extant. They differ critically from other forms of miniature painting, such as Persian miniature painting, by not representing Sufi symbolism.
Siegel, Jesse E.
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Political action committees [PDF]
, 2009 The Political Action Committee (known by the conventional acronym of PAC) is a privately-organised group dedicated to shaping and influencing political policy and law making. PACs operate to generate, distribute and spend campaign funding. While they are
Higgins, Michael
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Editorial: Political Transformations, Endogenous Factors and Non-Political Actors [PDF]
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2013 Editorial
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2013 The article presents a typology of the concepts of political socialization of the Russian intelligentsia in the context of formation of modern political culture.
Vartumian Arushan Arushanovich
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