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ABSTRACT In January 2025, a US executive order initiated a significant restructuring of USAID, halting nearly all international spending for 90 days and terminating a substantial portion of its foreign aid contracts. This policy shift threatens to unravel decades of development progress, particularly in sub‐Saharan Africa, where USAID has been integral
Ketan Tamirisa +6 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines the spillover effect of bank financial misconduct on the uninsured deposits of peer banks within local markets. We first validate that misconduct banks experience an increase in deposit spreads and a corresponding outflow of deposits following the misconduct. We then show local peer banks exhibit divergent deposit responses,
Ya Kang, Yupeng Lin, Yang Qiu
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Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised
ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
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ABSTRACT The study explores the effect of digitalisation on corruption and on human development in Sub‐Sahara Africa (SSA) and its subregions. The fixed effects and Hausman–Taylor techniques and data for 33 SSA countries are used. We find that digitalisation has a nonlinear effect on corruption and on human development.
Abdul Ganiyu Iddrisu, Ibrahim Osman Adam
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Multiple Sclerosis and Viruses: « Liaisons Dangereuses »
ABSTRACT Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex, multifactorial neurodegenerative disease with an aetiology that is still partially elusive. Several risk factors are associated with MS development including genetic predisposition and various environmental stressors; however, recently, viral infections have gained significant attention as a crucial ...
Samanta Plavina +11 more
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Landlords and Tenants: A Class‐Theoretical Approach to the Relations of Social Reproduction
ABSTRACT Current understandings of landlords and tenants are primarily based on individual attributes each group possesses, usually conceptualized as binary divisions or gradational distinctions. In this paper, we offer an alternative: a relational, class‐based concept of housing market actors.
Danielle Kerrigan, David Wachsmuth
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ABSTRACT Introduction Australia's illicit tobacco trade poses major challenges, with evidence of increasing use. We examined: (i) use of illicitly traded tobacco (ITT) and reasons for use among two populations of people who use drugs in Australia; and (ii) factors associated with ITT use, versus exclusive licit tobacco use, in 2024 and 2025.
Connor Graham +10 more
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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80
Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the daily experiences of Jua Kali women entrepreneurs in Western Kenya, unpacking how gendered power relations are enacted within informal marketplaces and how women entrepreneurs mobilize agency within these structurally and institutionally constrained contexts.
Tabitha Sindani +3 more
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Behavioral Factors in Tax Preparer and Tax Compliance Choices
ABSTRACT What tax preparer characteristics are most important to taxpayers in their decision to use a tax preparer, and how does this choice of a tax preparer affect subsequent taxpayer compliance? We use laboratory experiments to examine these questions. We find that individuals in this environment simultaneously choose a preparer and their compliance
James Alm +4 more
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