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Girls’ access to education in China: actors, cultures and the windmill of development management [PDF]

, 2010
The world has a mixed record towards achieving EFA and the MDGs in relation to the targets on gender equity in basic education. For researchers and practitioners, this raises the question of which factors influence the processes leading to the ...
Wang, Xiaojun Grace
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How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar, Laura Meriluoto, Richard Watt   +2 more
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Decolonial thinking and Europe: Decolonisation between particularity and universalism

Verbum et Ecclesia
Colonisation continues to have a tremendous impact on large parts of the globe and not only on previously colonised countries. Many of the current geopolitical, economic and environmental challenges that the globe faces cannot be thought of without ...
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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Beyond the East-West Dilemma: Rethinking Greekness Through Diffracted Gazes in Contemporary Greek Travelogues

Between, 2017
Travel writing has been viewed as one of the main sources of national typologies and is often held responsible for the consolidation of stereotypes about otherness and for the promotion of an imperialist agenda. This paper aims to investigate conceptions
Peggy Karpouzou
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The Philosophy of Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously [PDF]

, 2019
During the last few decades, the proliferation of interest in conspiracy theories became a widespread phenomenon in our culture, and also in academia.
Freiman, Ori
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Cultural Orientations of sport managers [PDF]

, 2006
Various interpretations of sport management are cultural constructs underpinned by core assumptions and values held by members of professional communities. Sport managers world wide share common problems, but differ in how they resolve them.
Adler N., Azzopardi K., Berg B. L., Bloom H., Blouet B., Bobev S., Brannen M., Bryman A., Charmaz K., Chelladurai P., Chelladurai P., Chen M., Colyer S., Costa C., Darlington G., Davis K., Dayan D., Denscombe M., DeSensi J., DeSensi J., DeSensi J. T., DeSensi J. T., Dimitra Papadimitriou, Doherty A., Hall E. T., Hall E. T., Hampden-Turner C., Hampden-Turner C., Hickson D., Hickson D., Hofstede G., Hofstede G., Hofstede G., Hofstede G., Holden N., Inkeles A., Jackson R., Jackson T., Kikulis L., Kluckhohn F., Lessem R., Lewis J., Lewis R. D., Lewis R. D., Martin J., Masteralexis L., Minter R., Nicholson J., Oakley B., Palmer A., Parkhouse B., Rokeach M., Rosa López De D'Amico, Sands R., Schein E., Schneider S., Seagrave S., Slack T., Smith P., Soucie D., Taylor T., Taylor T., Taylor T., Torkildsen G., Triandis H.C., Trompenaars F., Trompenaars F., Trompenaars F., Vassil Girginov, Weese W., Westerbeek H., Willett C., Zetterholm S., Zolotov M.   +73 more
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
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Book Review:\u3cem\u3ePilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2016
Book Review of Pilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers. By Mary V. T. Cattan.
Prabhu, Joseph
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global game, local goals : football and the global-local nexus : a thesis in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology, Massey University, Albany [PDF]

, 2006
Association football is the most popular sport in the world with massive numbers of players and supporters, both male and female. The global spread of football coupled with its projection through mass media to global audiences suggests an analysis based ...
McAdam, Stuart Graeme
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