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International Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 34, Issue 3, July 2025.Abstract Background This study critically examines the central policy documents that regulate care and support for people with disabilities in South Africa and Sweden. Methods The study critically analyses South Africa's White Paper on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Swedish Disability Act.
Noreth Muller‐Kluits +3 more
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Monetary Sterilization in China Since the 1990s: How Much and How Effective? [PDF]
China is the largest reserve holder among developing countries, having amassed over US$ 600 billion of reserves by end 2004. Given the potential liquidity overhang concerns in China due to the rapid reserve buildup, the PeopleÂ’s Bank of China (PBOC) has
Alice Ouyang, Ramkishen Rajan
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Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, Volume 211, Issue 4, July 2025.ABSTRACT Soybean (Glycine max L.) forms a symbiotic relationship with compatible soil rhizobia, enabling biological nitrogen fixation. Among numerous factors, moisture deficit is a major challenge to soybean production due to its direct impact on the ability to fix nitrogen.
Malinda S. Thilakarathna +8 more
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Capital Mobility for Developing Countries May Not Be So High [PDF]
International capital flows to developing countries have taken on considerable policy importance in recent years. There is disagreement, however, about whether financial capital mobility has become so high that developing countries have little ability to
Manfred W. Keil +2 more
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Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, Volume 211, Issue 4, July 2025.ABSTRACT Soil nutrient cycling and availability in pastures are affected by warming and drought. These effects may be further enhanced in intensively managed/degraded systems due to altered microbial community size and composition. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi may help compensate for this climate‐related disruption in nutrient cycling and ...
Chioma Igwenagu +7 more
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What is the Most Effective Monetary Policy for Aid-Receiving Countries? [PDF]
This paper analyses how monetary policy can enhance the effectiveness of volatile aid fl ows. We find that monetary policy is effective in reducing trade balance volatility.
Alessandro Prati, Thierry Tressel
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How is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies?
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2025.ABSTRACT A range of compelling recent literature highlights how climate change is rewriting the intertwined social and environmental processes that comprise agrarian landscapes. Mainstream reaction has been to double down on technical intensification strategies supplemented by a resolute faith in scientific advancement to reduce vulnerabilities.
Kasia Paprocki +4 more
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Deviations from Uncovered Interest Rate Parity: A Post Keynesian Explanation [PDF]
Finding satisfactory explanations of deviations from uncovered interest rate parity (UIRP) has proved to be a frustrating experience for Neoclassical economists. Studies have focused on the role of risk, but thus far no one has been able to put forward a
John Harvey
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Coping with too much of a good thing : policy responses for large capital inflows in developing countries [PDF]
In discussing the causes and consequences of large capital inflows to developing countries, the author emphasizes two things. First, although there are legitimate grounds for an optimistic long-term outlook on private capital flows to developing ...
Goldstein, Morris
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Central bank intervention, sterilization and monetary independence: the case of Pakistan [PDF]
This paper analyzes the response of the State bank of Pakistan—the central bank, to foreign exchange inflows for the period of 2001:1 to 2006:8. In this context, we estimated sterilization and offset coefficients using vector autoregression (VAR) model ...
Waheed, Muhammad
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