From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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FinTextSim: a domain-specific sentence-transformer for extracting predictive latent topics from financial disclosures. [PDF]
Jehnen S +2 more
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ABSTRACT Employees in highly demanding, interdependent work environments face a dilemma: while avoidance‐focused job crafting can preserve their own well‐being, these self‐initiated changes to their jobs could negatively affect coworkers. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 81 employees concurrently working for multiple agile teams in a European ...
Helene Tenzer +4 more
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Examining the supply and need of health workforce in Ethiopia: A foundation for strategic investment in human resources for health. [PDF]
Ali JM +9 more
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How Do Investors React to Supplier Exploitation? Event Study and Experimental Evidence
ABSTRACT Supplier exploitation, including financial squeezing, payment delays, and non‐contractual demands, is a pervasive form of corporate misconduct. This multi‐method study examines how investors interpret supplier exploitation amid competing ethical and financial considerations.
Seongtae Kim, Sangho Chae, Han Kyul Oh
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The Contingent Payoff of Transparency: The Mediating Roles of Citizen Participation and Enforcement in Health Service Delivery Improvement. [PDF]
Atiku S, Okoh A, Olakotan O.
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how strategic renewal, driven by the interaction among technological, marketing, and organizational innovation, enhances firms' economic performance. Using a panel dataset of 8871 Spanish firms covering the period 2009–2016, we provide empirical evidence on the different effects of each type of innovation and their ...
Beatriz Forés +3 more
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Entropy and Chaos-Based Modeling of Nonlinear Dependencies in Commodity Markets. [PDF]
Georgescu I, Kinnunen J.
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Profit With Purpose: How CSR Fuels UK SMEs' Success
ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an essential strategy for firms, particularly small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), to enhance their social impact and secure long‐term financial sustainability. This study explores the relationship between CSR investments and financial performance in UK listed SMEs from 2021 to 2024 ...
Renato Pereira +3 more
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Multi-Sensor Temporal Fusion Transformer for Stock Performance Prediction: An Adaptive Sharpe Ratio Approach. [PDF]
Yang J, Li P, Cui Y, Han X, Zhou M.
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