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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 984-1004, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Unveiling the Impact of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on Money Laundering: A Cross‐Countries Analysis

Journal of Public Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The paper aims to test the relationship between SDGs and money laundering levels. The empirical study is based on a panel dataset composed of 117 countries, covering many continents and income levels, over the period 2012–2019. Results reveal that SDGs impact significantly and negatively on money laundering levels.
Dorra Talbi, Mouna Baccouri
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Ottoman Soldiers Martered By Zeytun (Suleymanlı) Armenians

Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2011
This Article deals with Armenians who settled in Zeytun and their relations with government authorities. Demographic aspect of Zeytun till 1890’s and Armenian revolts in Zeytun have briefly mentioned.
Orhan Doğan
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The Pitfalls of Ethnic Aggregation: Iranians And Afghans, And The Problem Of ‘West Asian’ Category In Canada

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary, Omid Asayesh, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 541-553, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies

Economics &Politics, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 542-559, July 2026.
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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Reversal of economic integration: evidence from European Union enlargement

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 660-685, July 2026.
Abstract Empirical models of trade agreements implicitly assume that withdrawal from a trade agreement has an equal and opposite trade effect as accession (i.e., symmetry). With increasing opposition to international economic cooperation, it becomes urgent to test this assumption.
Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Arevik Gnutzmann‐Mkrtchyan, Tobias Korn   +2 more
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Macroeconomic Expectations in a War

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Using short‐ and long‐term macroeconomic forecasts, we estimate the projected cost of the Russian full‐scale invasion of Ukraine for countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Shortly after the invasion, the projected cumulative cost over 6 years stood at $2.44 trillion for the region.
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Vittal Vasudevan
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‘No Diplomatic Negotiations or Insistence before the Ottoman Porte to Have Any Favorable Result...’: The Caucasus in Russian-Turkish Relations, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Oriental Studies
Introduction. Being a key point on the Russian-Turkish agenda during the period in question, the Caucasus was influenced not only by the traditional logic of geopolitical rivalry between the two powers but also by somewhat tectonic shifts in the system ...
Karine R. Ambartsumyan, Mikayel A. Malkhasyan, Vahram R. Balayan   +2 more
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The Patriarchal Election Crisis At The Armenian Patriarchate Of Istanbul: The Repercussion of The Crisis In The American Consular Reports And Turkish Press (1944-1950)

Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2015
The death of the first Armenian Archbishop of İstanbul during the Republican era, Mesrob I Naroyan, in 1944 led to an unprecedented leadership crisis throughout the whole history of the Patriarchate of İstanbul, which was established in 1461 upon the ...
Hikmet, Öksüz
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