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The Potential for Tax Reforms in Post‐War Ukraine
ABSTRACT We analyze the major challenges for the Ukrainian tax system for the post‐war recovery of Ukraine. We identify the main areas of concern related to low compliance and high tax evasion and avoidance. Drawing on the recent economic literature and other countries' experiences, we propose realistic reforms to increase tax compliance and support ...
Anna Abate Bessomo +2 more
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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A Just and Sustainable Solution to the Boat People Predicament in Australia? [PDF]
Since the year 2000, there have been close to two thousand deaths of asylum seekers at sea as a result of foiled attempts to travel to Australia in order to seek protection under the United Nations Convention and Protocol on the Status of Refugees.[1 ...
Donegan, Laura Rose W
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We document meter‐scale antidune and cyclic‐step deposits in channel–lobe transition zone (CLTZ) deposits of the Upper Cretaceous Point Loma Formation in San Diego, California. These results provide new insights into sediment transport dynamics in CLTZ environments, which are critical for understanding reservoir connectivity and heterogeneity in ...
Luthfi Saifudin +4 more
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Roadblock Geographies: A Typology of Extraction, Circulation, and Authority in Conflict
Short Abstract This article develops a typology of roadblock geographies in conflict‐affected borderlands as extractive landscapes. Drawing on transport geography, it identifies how infrastructural variation—footpaths, roads and ports—shapes who extracts rents, how and to what effect.
Peer Schouten
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Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean: Expanding the SlaveVoyages Database
ABSTRACT While the trans‐Atlantic slave trade has been thoroughly documented in a database of slaving voyages freely available to the public, few comparable resources focus on the traffic across the Indian Ocean and Asia exist. This article seeks to change that picture by discussing the preliminary findings of a research project aimed at expanding the ...
Daniel B. Domingues da Silva +1 more
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A Reserve of Light: Photography, Ethnography, and Lucid Memory in Contemporary Chile
ABSTRACT This article takes shape as a shared inquiry between an ethnographer and a photographer, in continuity with the photographic archive of Luis Poirot. Through sustained encounters with his images and archival practices, the text does not position itself outside the archive that motivates it, but unfolds from within it.
Cristóbal Bonelli, Luis Poirot
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Meeting the minimum standards of the Palermo Protocol: The case of South Africa [PDF]
Magister Legum - LLMThis research is aimed at evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of the legal framework dealing with human trafficking in South Africa.
Shepherd, Robyn
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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Abstract Drug entry into prisons represents a serious issue for both incarcerated people and prison staff. Although substances enter prisons in many ways, staff drug smuggling represents a consistent problem facing correctional institutions globally. We draw on 131 interviews with correctional officers (COs) working in four Western Canadian prisons to ...
William J. Schultz +2 more
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