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Arkansas Traveler [Clinch Mountain Style] [With Fiddle Explanation]
Tune played by Bruce Mongol during a fiddle contestat the Independence Folk Festival in Independence, Virginia in ...
Mongol, Bruce;
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Are natural resources a curse on the distributional consequences of financial development?
Abstract This paper examines how natural resource dependence shapes the distributional effects of financial development in developing economies. Using a balanced panel of 90 countries from 1995 to 2022 and dynamic panel and nonlinear threshold methods, we show that financial development reduces wealth inequality when resource dependence is low, but ...
Dong‐Hyeon Kim +2 more
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The Political Economy of Pre-industrial Trade in Northeast Asia [PDF]
This paper examines why the countries of Northeast Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) in the early nineteenth century traded much less (as measured by the proportion of trade to GDP) than most countries in other parts of the world. It is argued that the most
Hun-Chang Lee
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Climate change has reached unprecedented levels, causing frequent extreme events like droughts and fires. These changes are driving a sharp rise in extinction risk for mammals and threatening key Nature's Contributions to People (NCP) such as clean water, air quality, and climate regulation.
Marta Cimatti +2 more
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Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council. Annual report. 2003.
The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council is an independent statutory agency charged with responsibility for standards, education and training in the field of pre-hospital emergency care in Ireland.
Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council.
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Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43
Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
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Research on tombs and burials from the pre-mongol empire period
Archaeological sites dating to the pre-Mongol Empire period are extremely rare. Burial sites as sociated with the Mongols from the end of the Uyghur period are particularly scarce, with only a few graves having been excavated accidentally.
Gonchig, Batbold +4 more
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The paper discusses archaeological materials testifying to the links of Volga Bulgaria with Syria and Egypt during the pre-Mongol period. It was noted that the appearance of products from Syria, primarily glass ornaments, belongs to the pre-Bulgar era ...
K.A. Rudenko
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Innovation and the great divergence
Abstract Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north‐west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north‐west Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north‐west Europe after 1700 and the negative
Stephen Broadberry, Runzhuo Zhai
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Do Political Connections Seek Green Rent? Only When Safe
ABSTRACT This study examines how and under what conditions political connections shape firms’ responses to environmental policies. Exploiting the staggered rollout of China's Low‐Carbon City Pilot (LCCP) policy, we find that firms connected to higher‐level governments engage in greater rent‐seeking under this weakly enforced policy.
Tianxi Wang, Ruoran Zhao
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