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The Financial Status and Local Credit Market Conditions of U.S. Farms Engaged in Multiple Borrowing

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural producers often borrow from multiple lenders, raising concerns about credit risk and monitoring. We construct detailed farm‐level measures of how debt is distributed across lenders and examine how farm financial status and the physical presence of local lenders are linked to this practice.
Sylvanus Gaku, Jennifer Ifft, Brady Brewer, Luke Byers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to Dossier. Dimensions of Politics and Political Brokerage: Skills, Scales, Resources and Trajectories

Íconos, 2018
This article presents an analytical overview of the topic of political operators, politicians and political professionals drawing on the literature and empirical research including sociological approaches, ethnographic work and the specialized literature.
Edison Hurtado Arroba, Martín Paladino, Gabriel Vommaro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship Between Knowledge and Compliance With Safety Measures: Evidence From COVID‐19

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Compliance with health safety protocols is important for protecting public health, particularly in agricultural sectors where disease outbreaks can disrupt production and market access. Despite its economic significance, we know little about what drives protocol compliance.
Nilufer Cetik, Carola Grebitus, Lauren Chenarides   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tests employed in the psychometric validation of the Insulin Treatment Appraisal Scale (ITAS) in T2DM patients; a systematic review of the literature

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Background Psychological Insulin Resistance (PIR) and negative perceptions regarding insulin treatment are noteworthy challenges in T2DM management, which hinder the timely initiation of insulin treatment.
Saba Rasheed, Anees ur Rehman, Zermina Tasleem, Marryam Azeem, Muhammad Fawad Rasool, Arifa Mehreen, Saleh Karamah Al-Tamimi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Philadelphia's Councilmanic Prerogative: How It Works and Why It Matters [PDF]

, 2015
This report examines the Philadelphia legislative practice known as "councilmanic prerogative," through which individual City Council members make nearly all of the land use decisions in their jurisdictions.
Casey Thomas, Jared Brey, Patrick Kerkstra   +2 more
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Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies 1600-1850 [PDF]

, 2013
This article examines the impact of law on corporate governance by means of a case study of joint-stock enterprise in England and Scotland before 1850.
Acres W.M., Althusias J., Campbell R.H., Carr C.T., Carswell J., Daunton M.J., Davenant C., Davies K.G., Dubois A.B., Freeman M., James Taylor, Kyd S., MacKenzie W.M., Mark Freeman, Michie R.C., Mirowski P., Misselden E., Robin Pearson, Royal African Company, Sanders F.W., Scott W.R., Taylor J., Trebilcock C., Walker D.M., Webb S.   +24 more
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2023–2027 CAP First Pillar Reform and Livestock Sector: Production and Economic Impacts on Italian Specialized Dairy Cattle Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study uses an agroeconomic supply model to assess the impacts of 2023–2027 CAP on Italian specialized dairy cattle farms. The model considers the voluntary choice of Eco‐Scheme 1, specifically addressed to livestock farms, through the implementation of binary variables.
Davide Dell'Unto, Raffaele Cortignani
wiley   +1 more source

Against liberal pluralist political practice in South Africa

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1997
In this article I take issue with liberal pluralist political practice in South Africa. Multicultural civil society requires the recognition of cultural categories which modernity, in the shape of liberal pluralism, cannot accommodate and therefore ...
Pieter Coetzee
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Political Economy of Communication in Development?

Nordicom Review, 2020
In the development communication equation, whether more theoretical, empirical and analytical attention is given to ‘development’ or to ‘communication’ makes a difference: where the emphasis is on development, it is at the expense of communication. Since
Enghel Florencia
doaj   +1 more source

A democracy built on communicative action: Bahá'í political practice as a prefigurative resource for institutional effectiveness, accountability, and inclusivity. [PDF]

Front Sociol, 2023
Sabet M.
europepmc   +1 more source