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On the Financing Benefits of Supply Chain Transparency and Blockchain Adoption
We develop a theory that shows signaling a firm’s fundamental quality (e.g., its operational capabilities) to lenders through inventory transactions to be more efficient—it leads to less costly operational distortions—than signaling through loan requests,
J. Chod+4 more
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This text presents my series of performative photographs called Les Transparences (“Transparencies”), 2007. By staging drag queens models, this series brings face-to-face the biological nature of sex and the performative nature of genders. Thereby I question the arbitrary value of associating sex and gender while observing the sociocultural laws that ...
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FORCEFUL EVICTIONS: AN INTERSECTION BETWEEN CORRUPTION, LAND AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Forced evictions violate a number of internationally and nationally recognized human rights. However, it directly translates to a denial of the right to adequate housing which forms the very foundational basis for the realization of other rights. In the
Samuel Mbithi Kimeu+1 more
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The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed unprecedented and complex public policy issues. One that has emerged as a challenge for many countries globally is how to ensure the efficient and effective procurement of quality medical supplies.
Jillian Clare Kohler, Tom Wright
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Political Stubbornness and Online Local Budget Transparency in Croatia [PDF]
Online local budget transparency (OLBT) has been recognized as an important feature of good governance. Accordingly, in this paper, OLBT is measured in all 128 cities and a sample of 100 municipalities in Croatia using several key local budget documents ...
Katarina Ott+2 more
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On Transparency in Organizations [PDF]
When is it best for the Principal to commit to not disclosing all that he/she knows in moral hazard interactions? I show that whenever the Agent would choose the same action under complete information at several distinct states, then full transparency can generically be improved upon.
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Development aid contracts database: World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and EuropeAid
This article presents a global database of government contracts funded by the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and EuropeAid, principally from the years 2000-2017.
Mihály Fazekas+3 more
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Recent Process and Application of Electrochromism
Based on the research and development of electrochromism, its commercial applications have been realized in the areas of building windows, car rear-view mirrors and aircraft windows. In this paper, constructions, material category, working principles and
WEI Youxiu+5 more
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A relativistic framework to determine the nuclear transparency from A(p,2p) reactions [PDF]
A relativistic framework for computing the nuclear transparency extracted from A(p,2p) scattering processes is presented. The model accounts for the initial- and final-state interactions (IFSI) within the relativistic multiple-scattering Glauber ...
Ryckebusch, J., Van Overmeire, B.
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The EU approach to security provision in the Western Balkans and the Horn of Africa [PDF]
This article appraises the EU's approach to preventing further in security in the Western Balkans and the Horn of Africa. The purpose of this endeavour is to determine whether EU efforts meet needs on the ground as well as in Brussels.
Peen Rodt Annemarie+10 more
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