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- 1From:Pacific Affairs (Vol. 86, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne part of the Australian colonial legacy in Papua New Guinea (PNG hereafter) is the Australian government's attempt to forge partnerships with foreign companies in different economic sectors in order to lay the...
- 2From:Community Care (Issue 458)Social care leaders have called for a similar system to the quality ratings scheme scrapped last year to be introduced to assess adult providers after plans to introduce an excellence award were scrapped. There is...
- 3From:Community Care (Issue 459)The government will not prop up care providers whose businesses have failed through its efforts to tighten up financial regulation of the sector in the wake of the Southern Cross case. Any increase in regulation...
- 4From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 1)WHEN LORI LEONARD ARRIVED IN CHAD MORE than 20 years ago, she had little idea that the impoverished Central African country would become the focus of her career. At the time, she was just a newly minted BA with a Peace...
- 5From:Tobacco Control (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere's something rotten in the Special Administrative Region. Having progressed from almost zero tobacco control 20 years ago to being a regional leader with a comprehensive tobacco control policy by the time it was...
- 6From:AMASS (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt's always been about the money. Occupy Wall Street chose to set up its 24-hour outpost of political dissent on the doorstep of the finance industry primarily to underscore the simple fact that money has corrupted our...
- 7From:Brief (Vol. 38, Issue 4)Note: (1) The ever-changing world economy allows not only the exchange of money, but also the exchange of ideas--ideas that go beyond pure commerce and include those regarding human rights and individual freedoms....
- 8From:Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVehicle-for-hire services are critical for the local economy and are frequently regulated by municipalities. With ridehailing platforms taking a dominant role in organizing the industry today, the treatment of workers...
- 9From:AQ - Australian Quarterly (Vol. 84, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe enormous wealth generated in Australia in the last decade has attracted more than its share of sharks. In 2012, a KPMG survey found fraud in private and public organisations in Australia and New Zealand had cost...
- 10From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAs passive investment through index funds and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) has become pervasive, the structure of corporate control in the global capital market is more complex than before. We propose a new model and...
- 11From:SAM Advanced Management Journal (Vol. 76, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChina's textile and apparel industry, the world's largest exporter in 2009, is a formidable competitor. Neverless, as production costs rise in China, some low-cost developing countries are making inroads in this export...
- 12From:China: An International Journal (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe last two decades have witnessed a significant rise and expansion in outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from China and India. This paper discusses the development process of China's and India's OFDI since the...
- 13From:Journal of East Asian Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBusiness interests are overrepresented in Hong Kong's nominally democratic political institutions. Many in Hong Kong perceive this as evidence of the existence of "collusion between government and business," a...
- 14From:Independent Review (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGabriel Kolko's The Triumph of Conservatism (1963) and Railroads and Regulation (1965) offered a revisionist interpretation of the business-government relationship in America during the late nineteenth and early...
- 15From:Community Care (Issue 441)Protected rights for workers facing redundancy or transfers between employers could be weakened in a government review of employment law. Possible changes to Transfer Undertakings Protection of Employment Regulations...
- 16From:Community Care (Issue 439)Care home residents still denied human rights mithran.samuel@rbi.co.uk Residents of independent care homes are not being fully protected from abuses despite legislation brought in three years ago to uphold their...
- 17From:Capital & Class (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe period from the 1970s to the 1990s saw much discussion about the declining power of national states in the face of internationalization and, later, globalization. This topic has been explored within the Conference...
- 18From:Multinational Monitor (Vol. 26, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedFOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES, a corporate political juggernaut has rolled over citizen interests the world over. It was not always so. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was Big Business that was on the defensive. In the United...
- 19From:Global Governance (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe UN Global Compact epitomizes the current state of the politics of international development in three distinct ways. First, the Compact illustrates a major turn in development thinking. After decades of hostile...
- 20From:ASHRAE Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFew things are more exciting than an election, and the 2010 congressional and gubernatorial elections did not disappoint. The entire House of Representatives, one-third of the Senators, and 37 governorships were up for...