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Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do emerging donors integrate into the existing international aid architecture? While the existing literature focuses largely on emerging donors from the Global South, such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, there are many emerging donors from the Global North that have joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)—the premier ...
Nicolas Bau +3 more
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Political Shaping Of Transitions To Biofuels In Europe, Brazil And The USA [PDF]
, 2010 Faced with major challenges of global climate change, declining fossil fuel reserves, and competition between alternative uses of land, the transition to renewable transport fuels has been marked by new modes of political economic governance and the ...
Harvey, M, McMeekin, A
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
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Agricultural and Food EconomicsThe article provides an original conceptual framework to advance the knowledge of short food supply chains (SFSCs) collaboration by bridging supply chain management approaches with empirical evidence from the agri-food sector.
S. Stoeva +6 more
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Toward an analytical and methodological understanding of actor-network theory [PDF]
, 2015 Actor-Network theory (ANT) is well developed within social studies of science and technology. The last two decades have seen an increasing awareness and interest in ANT within the social sciences and it has increasingly been invoked to theorise the role ...
Jackson, Sharon
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Food insecurity remains a persistent challenge in rural Colombia, driven by structural inequalities, livelihood constraints and exposure to shocks. This paper examined the determinants and predictive drivers of household food insecurity using nationally representative data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Data in Emergencies ...
Adrino Mazenda
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Intoxication and US Culture: An Interview with Craig Reinarman
NANO, 2016 Intoxication and US Culture: An Interview with Craig Reinarman. Ingrid Walker interviews Craig Reinarman, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ingrid Walker, Craig Reinarman
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Perceiving the Cultural Sea that is Our Home - Spiritual Formation and Western 21st Century Culture
, 2017 Spiritual formation occurs in the routines of daily living. We are formed by choices made at the grocery store, as we reach for our medicine cabinet, as we consider whether to drive ten minutes or walk thirty. Such seemingly insignificant choices reflect
McMinn, Lisa Graham
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Political Economy : Variability and Consistency in the Development of Worker Owned Cooperatives [PDF]
, 2006 The relationship between worker cooperatives and their social and economic environment has sparked interest among the sociological community for the contradictions and harmony typical of these interactions. However, these studies do not examine how firm
Ramon, Cris
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Human Capital Robotic Integration and Value Creation for Organizations
Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Due to rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, the research conversation has drifted from viewing robots as replacements for humans (i.e., the substitute view) to a view that considers the possible benefits of human–robot collaboration in the workplace (i.e., the complementary view).
Chou‐Yu Tsai +6 more
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