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Recovering lost tax to meet the health financing gap for universal public sector health systems in East and Southern Africa. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2023 Loewenson R, Mukumba C.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara +4 more
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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, 2020 The aim of this thesis is to examine to which extent inventors engage in tax havens, as well as the characteristics of the inventors engaged in tax haven compared to the average inventor. Inventors are behind the innovations that drive economic growth and technological development.
Ro, Helene Merrild, Langli, Jørgen
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
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Private equity investment in Europe's primary care sector-a call for research and policy action. [PDF]
Eur J Public Health, 2023 Rechel B +7 more
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Tax havens are the tip of the iceberg [PDF]
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018 Dyhia, Belhabib, Philippe, Le Billon
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of environmental efficiency in Germany between 1990 and 2022, focusing on labor productivity, green R&D productivity, fossil fuel inefficiency, and energy efficiency R&D expenditures. Using the Inverse Load Capacity Factor per unit of GDP as an indicator of environmental efficiency, the analysis utilizes ...
Mustafa Naimoğlu +2 more
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