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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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Computers and chess masters: The role of AI in transforming elite human performance
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made significant strides in recent years, often supplementing rather than replacing human performance. The extent of their assistance at the highest levels of human performance remains unclear. We analyse over 11.6 million decisions of elite chess players, a domain commonly used as a testbed for AI
Merim Bilalić, Mario Graf, Nemanja Vaci
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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Towards a fragmented neighbourhood: policies of the EU and Russia and their consequences for the area that lies in between [PDF]
, 2014 In the current volatile climate, the EU needs a strategy towards Russia that goes beyond sanctions. In reviewing the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership, the EU’s incoming leadership should be more sensitive towards the existing ...
Delcour, Laure, Kostanyan, Hrant
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the nature, effectiveness, and implications of English private tutoring (EPT) among Grade 11 students in rural Kazakhstan. Drawing on survey responses from 160 students within a larger sample of 740, the study examines participation patterns, motivations, perceived benefits, and the financial and social costs ...
Anas Hajar, Mehmet Karakus
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Kazakhstan has emerged as a non‐traditional destination for international students through the expansion of English‐medium instruction and government‐funded scholarship schemes. This convergent mixed‐methods study examines how degree‐seeking international students from non‐Commonwealth of Independent States countries adapt to academic ...
Kymbat Yessenbekova, Anas Hajar
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Sinophobia in the Post-Soviet Space
Russia in Global Affairs, 2020 Yuri V. Kulintsev +3 more
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Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism? [PDF]
, 2003 As the Soviet Union dissolved into a new territorial reality, it released the doubly repressed histories of Tsarist and Soviet imperium. In the states to the south of the new Russian Federation, the post-soviet jostled with the postcolonial as nations ...
Bowring, Bill
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