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Open Library of Humanities, 2019 The growth of wind energy in the United States has created widespread access to renewable energy for citizens in many parts of the country. But while wind holds promise for meeting 21st-century energy demands, the question of how and where to locate wind
Michael Knievel
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Shrinkflation And Cebu’S Street Food Vendors: Navigating Economic Pressures In The Informal Economy
Diversitas JournalThis study examines how shrinkflation affects street food vendors in Cebu City, particularly emphasizing how it affects their capacity to make ends meet and how they operate in the unofficial market.
Leahlou Narvios
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Chinese Lending and Sovereign Debt Distress in Developing Countries
Economics &Politics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China has emerged as the world's largest bilateral creditor to developing countries, yet its effects on sovereign debt outcomes remain contested. Competing theoretical perspectives predict opposing effects: Chinese lending may increase debt vulnerability through opacity, moral hazard, and unsustainable obligations, or reduce it by providing ...
Patrick E. Shea
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DETUROPE, 2014 The economic role of financial services in the national economy is unquestionable, so the examination of these services is a relevant theme during the survey of the state of a region, county or other territorial unit.
Sándor Zsolt Kovács
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract When studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state‐controlled prices. This article addresses the issue by introducing a new consumer price index that incorporates both official and black market prices.
Patrice Baubeau, Matéo Teixeira
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article outlines the early evolution, in the period 1968–1979, of the ancillary role in the Probation Service in England and Wales. It explains why the Probation Service made this ‘very considerable innovation’ and argues that this development was quickly seen to be a success enabling new opportunities for practitioners and for community ...
Emily Rose Hay +2 more
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Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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The Effect of Self–Employment Loans on Stable Employment of Abadan Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation Aid Recipients [PDF]
توسعه اجتماعی, 2015 Unemployment is one of the main problems of the human society that the man has been struggling with for a long time. Self-employment is of the ways of confronting unemployment and a proper procedure for decreasing unemployment rate.
hojatallah cheraghi +2 more
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What are captions, and why do they matter? Captioning is a text‐based tool that makes it easier for those who do not sufficiently recognize spoken language on the screen to understand TV and films. Furthermore, the captions help viewers understand the screen content, notwithstanding the context they are in.
Jan‐Eerik Leppaenen
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