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Linkage Between Electoral Cycle and the Discouragement of African Firms in the Credit Market

open access: yesInternational Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the linkage between the electoral cycle and the discouragement of SMEs in the credit market of 14 African countries. It focuses on 12,145 firms over the period 2006–2020. The results obtained from Probit estimates show elections are negatively linked with the discouragement of firms in the credit market.
Cherif Abdramane, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

When Is a Boundary Not a Boundary? Exploring the Tensions and Potentialities of Creative Practice in Doctoral Research in Art and Design Education

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Alongside their continuing growth in the popularity, both practice research in creative disciplines and arts‐based methods in research in the social sciences have histories now spanning several decades. In doctoral education, art and design education research sits within and across two distinct fields – the art and design doctorate and the ...
Sian Vaughan
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in former Soviet Union countries. [PDF]

open access: yesAIDS Res Ther, 2019
Amangaldiyeva A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Norm Contestation in EU Foreign Policy: The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The EU considers gender equality fundamental to its identity, with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) playing a crucial role. This article delves into the contested aspects of EU foreign policy concerning SRHR from 1997 to 2021. Through document analysis and 18 semi‐structured interviews, it discerns three phases of contestation.
Diego Badell
wiley   +1 more source

Waking a Dormant Legal Resource: Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) have become a central tool of the European Union's (EU) new industrial policy. IPCEIs derive their peculiar name from an exemption to the general prohibition on state aid that has existed since the Treaty of Rome but has only led to the creation of a stand‐alone policy instrument in 2014.
Timo Seidl, Henrique Lopes‐Valença
wiley   +1 more source

Geopolitics on a Shoestring? Unpacking the EU'S Geopolitical External Assistance to Central Asia

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how the European Union's (EU) increasingly emphasised geopolitical ambitions are reflected in the practice of its external assistance policy. An analysis of EU documents around various policy initiatives and funding instruments reveals that in the Commission's understanding, geopolitical external assistance increases EU ...
Balázs Szent‐Iványi, Dóra Piroska
wiley   +1 more source

Who Cares: Why the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Matters (More) to Some EU Member States

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract What drives the salience of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict amongst EU member states? This article employs domestic foreign policy theories to explain the factors underlying variation in salience, estimated analysing all country statements made at the United Nations General Assembly between 1993 and 2017.
Valerio Vignoli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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