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Availability and Quality of Long-Term Care Services for Older Adults in Five Southeast Asian Countries. [PDF]

Geriatr Gerontol Int
Sasaki Y, Yamaguchi K, Shobugawa Y, Ohaku Y, Otaga M, Machida M, Miura H, Hayashi R, Arai H, Tum V, Hamid TA, Nyunt TW, Garcia AP, de la Vega SAF, Choomplang N, Anantanasuwong D, Assantachai P, Kodama T.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do Resource‐Constrained Small Private Firms Support Incumbent or Nonincumbent Factions? Evidence From Chinese Township and Village Enterprises

Economics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on corporate political strategy emphasizes firm—government engagement but largely treats governments as unitary and political alignment as stable. Drawing on stakeholder theory and the behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF), this study challenges these assumptions by examining how resource‐constrained small private firms navigate ...
Lee Li, Gongming Qian
wiley   +1 more source

Shrinking appetites: Will GLP-1 adoption in high-income countries accelerate Big Food's push into low- and middle-income countries? [PDF]

Global Health
Even B, Abdulai AR, Ambikapathi R, Béné C, Kennedy G, Lundy M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Declining female participation: Mechanisms at play in the Viennese private annuity market, c. 1360–1450

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
wiley   +1 more source

Study on policy adaptability of occupational injury insurance for employees of emerging business sectors in China. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Du Q, Miao X, Cui X, Xu A, Qiao X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth‐century Switzerland

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities from 1846 to 1893, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30‐year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute this to two structural issues: banks had incentives to ward off competitors by protecting their local monopolies or forming cartels, and there was
Daniel Kaufmann, Rebecca Stuart
wiley   +1 more source

When hospitals came to Sweden in the eighteenth century: a foreign import with practical difficulties. [PDF]

Med Hist
Sjöberg M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Innovation and the great divergence

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The waste-environmental-economic nexus facilitates city-specific cost-effective transition for China's municipal solid waste treatment. [PDF]

Innovation (Camb)
Li H, Lu X, Liu F, Li Z, Liu X, Lu B, Ma S, Gu B, Zhou C, Wang Z.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Liquidity Sprint: Short‐Term Cash Needs and Access to Credit

European Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We identify the causal drivers of the COVID‐19 ‘dash‐for‐cash’ in Europe using a hand‐collected panel of Euro‐area firms (2018‐Q4–2020‐Q3). Exploiting regional infection intensity as an instrument, we find that a one‐unit EBITDA decline raised credit‐line utilization by 15.5 percentage points in 2020‐Q2. Unlike the US ‘fallen‐angel’ narrative,
Mario Cerrato, Shengfeng Mei, Hormoz Ramian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source