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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across Sub‐Saharan Africa, women and youth are frequently identified as key beneficiaries of agrifood employment and value‐chain development policies. However, evidence on how inclusion unfolds within agrifood value chains remains limited, particularly in relation to whether participation generates decent work, better returns and meaningful ...
Toritseju Begho +2 more
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Rainchecks and Risk: Climate Shocks, Policy Transitions and SME Credit Dynamics
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises rely heavily on bank credit. They also have the fewest tools to deal with climate risk. Using a panel of 45 countries from 2007 to 2022, we study how climate risk and the Paris Agreement shape SME bank lending. Climate‐related disasters are associated with lower SME credit, with post‐event estimates indicating a ...
Swapnanil SenGupta, Anshita Sachan
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Climate Justice in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Unequal Burdens and Pathways to Socially Just Adaptation
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change in Sub‐Saharan Africa is often framed through vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation, yet these concepts alone do not fully explain the unequal social, economic, and political conditions shaping climate harm. This review examines climate change through a climate justice lens, focusing on unequal burdens, household welfare ...
Jacob Kwakye, Abraham Kwao
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
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How ventures maintain stakeholder support amidst operational legitimacy threats
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We explore how ventures mitigate operational legitimacy threats—threats that originate within the venture and challenge claims relating to the venture's ability to deliver on its promised value proposition. Through an inductive study of four ventures working to deliver their promised products following successful crowdfunding ...
Alex Murray, Susan Cohen, Farhan Iqbal
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Local Eviction Moratoria and the Spread of COVID‐19
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At different stages during the initial onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, various US states and local municipalities enacted eviction moratoria. One of the main aims of these moratoria was to slow the spread of COVID‐19 infections. We deploy a semiparametric difference‐in‐differences approach with an event study specification to examine whether ...
Julia Hatamyar, Christopher F. Parmeter
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Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
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New Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article showcases the Let All the Big Dawgs Eat Food Scholarship program, founded in 2014, to help address student hunger at the University of Georgia. Using an exploratory qualitative research method, we conducted interviews with 14 former recipients of the food scholarship to explore their experiences and perceptions of the benefits ...
Georgianna Martin +2 more
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances the understanding of employee performance by unraveling the relationship between high‐performance human resource management practices (HPHRMP) and employee performance. Data were obtained from 510 bank employees across 25 banks operating in Jordan. A sequential mediation model was tested using structural equation modeling
Adolfo Carballo‐Penela +3 more
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