Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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The institutional origins of vaccines distrust: Evidence from former-Soviet countries. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Costa-Font J +2 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
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Vietnam: Water Policy Dynamics under a Post-Cold War Communism
Water Alternatives, 2010 Vietnam is widely seen as a development success, with rather rapid economic growth and a reported reduced role of the state, yet presents many paradoxes to conventional analytical frameworks.
Adam Fforde
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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Communism – postcommunism continuum. The urban Romania in the 21st century
Sfera Politicii, 2013 While trying to understand the deeper meanings of the transition from communism to post communism in Romania, the study analyses the evolution of urban environment.
Tudor Pitulac
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The COVID-19 curtain: Can past communist regimes explain the vaccination divide in Europe? [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2023 Pronkina E +4 more
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When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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Wealth Redistribution and Mutual Aid: Comparison Using Equivalent/Non-Equivalent Exchange Models of Econophysics. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 Kato T.
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