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Liberalisation Reform, 'Neo-centralism', and Black Market: The Political Diseconomy of Lake Nasser Fishery Development

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2008
Despite its relatively modest importance, and the current difficulties faced by the government in implementing liberalisation in the rest of the country, the Egyptian governement decided to embark on a reform of the Lake Nasser fishery in the early 2000s.
Christophe Béné   +2 more
doaj  

On the Boundaries of the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Investigation

open access: yes, 2016
A large number of empirical studies pointed to the ongoing expansion of the shadow economy in many countries around the globe. A robust finding in these studies is the positive association between unemployment rates and the size of the unofficial sector.
Manes, Eran   +2 more
core  

Unexpected Encounters in Island Worlds: Interactions Between ROC/Taiwan Fishers and Chinese Diaspora Communities in the 20th‐Century Pacific

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Researchers have examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) cultivated relations with Chinese diaspora communities to secure recognition of their government as the true homeland of the Chinese people. However, less attention has been paid to how accidental and contingent encounters between communities ...
Jess Marinaccio
wiley   +1 more source

Does Financial-Industrial Group Membership Affect Fixed Investment: Evidence from Russia [PDF]

open access: yes
The current research estimates the accelerator type model of fixed investment using a Russian industrial enterprise dataset . This dataset contains individual firms’ accounting data for 1996 and 1997. The sample of firms was divided into three subsamples
Natalya Volchkova
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Digitalizing Newspaper Journalism: Instituting and Negotiating New Temporalities in the Digital Workplace

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digitalization of the labour process has occasioned the emergence of new temporal orders at work. For newspaper journalists, it has resulted in a radical reorganization of newsrooms and the temporalities of news production, offering a key site for studying this process of temporal reordering.
Xanthe Whittaker
wiley   +1 more source

Content and Genres of City Image Development in Social Media: The City of Arkhangelsk

open access: yesВиртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети
Official mass media are not the only source of city image development: social media do the same by engaging users in discussion and exchange of opinions.
Larisa Yu. Shchipitsina
doaj   +1 more source

Effective versus Statutory Taxation: Measuring Effective Tax Administration in Transition Economies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Wide differences between effective or realised average tax rates and tax yields that would result if statutory tax rates were strictly applied indicate tax compliance and collection problems.
Schaffer, Mark E., Turley, Gerard
core   +1 more source

The Bumps in the Road Toward Social Equity Budgeting: The Administrative Pitfalls When Implementing Participatory Budgeting

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory budgeting can encourage meaningful community engagement in all phases of the budgeting cycle to promote social equity. However, participatory budgeting administrators often experience administrative and political challenges in establishing participatory processes that effectively promote social equity.
Michelle L. Lofton   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rackets, Regulation and the Rule of Law [PDF]

open access: yes
Governments that levy predatory regulation and provide few weak legal institutions draw businesses into the unofficial economy and compel them to hire private protection organizations.
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Timothy Frye
core  

Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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