Quand l’État devient banquier by Isabelle Chambost, Béatrice Touchelay

“…To understand some of the reasons behind these reforms, we have placed them in a historical perspective, pointing out the continuities and ruptures. …”
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Le timide reboisement des paysans ghanéens by Stefano Boni

“…Even though efforts towards reforestation meet local demands, are economically viable and ecologically sound, these are hampered by a land tenure system that still offers no timber tenurial security to farmers. Recent legislative reforms concerning land tenure have not reassured farmers of their timber tenure prerogatives. …”
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Neither “Platformization” Nor “Infrastructuralization”: Government as a Platform in China by Jingyan Elaine Yuan, Yuchao Zhao

“…Through a case study of “the digital reform” in Zhejiang Province, and the affiliated smart city project—City Brain—in Hangzhou, the municipal capital, this study draws on data from participatory observations and interviews to (1) provide a historical context, in which “platformization” in urban governance is aimed to serve market-oriented socio-economic reforms; (2) argue that such “platformization” is shaped by the long-standing structural tension between centralization and localism, which has been renewed by digital data flows; and (3) understand the shifting public–private demarcation in social interactions and arrangements to deflect continual frictions between the state, local agents, and platforms in the domain of digital governance.…”
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Indigenous autonomous zones, original nations and the local political system. The case of the Kirkyawi ayllu (Bolivia) by Nelson Antequera

“… The general aim of this work is to contribute to understand the political transformations of theindigenous communities of the Andean region of Bolivia since the state reforms implemented in the decade of1990 and in a perspective that focuses in how the indigenous community, in our case the ayllu Kirkyawi, havepolitically reshaped in the new legal, institutional and political frame. …”
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Les images paysagères autour du thé et de la Chine dans la publicité : quels simulacres de paysage ? by Yun Zhang

“…This article describes the use of the image of tea and its landscape in advertising, focusing on several periods (the late 19th century, early 20th century and the period following the economic reforms in China in the 1980s). Also studied are other images based on the tea-growing landscape created for the purpose of advertising. …”
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Transformation of the highest political elite in Russia after Peter the Great in the process of “palace coups” by D. A. Filimonov

“…The main properties of the Russian political elite formed by the reforms of Peter the Great are analyzed, its main features are determined that influenced the nature of the intra-elite struggle and led to the transformation of the highest political elite in Russia. …”
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Archivi della giustizia e Archivi della follia by Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Rapetti

“…The result of such new consciousness is a process of reforms aimed at modifying the project for the new hospital, which dates back to 1844, and the institution of a special unit destined to become a psychiatric ward and which will be inaugurated as late as in 1859.…”
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Quantum information course for the undergraduate students of cyber security by Wei CHEN, Zhenqiang YIN, Zhengfu HAN, Nenghai YU

“…Quantum information is a new discipline with the intersection of quantum physics and information technology,which has developed rapidly recently and has been on the road of industrialization.In contrast,the severe shortage of the practitioners,who can understand quantum information technology in depth,have become bottlenecks restricting the development of this technology.The lack of talent stems is from the lack of education,especially for the undergraduate students of engineering.Benefitting from the vigorous growth of quantum information in China,the fundamental of infiltrating the quantum information course in the undergraduate education of engineering can be performed,and some positive effects have been achieved.The course has carried out the teaching reforms,and practices in terms of teaching objectives,curriculum structure,practical methods,which have gained good teaching results.These teaching experiences and ideas provide a valuable reference for quantum information education in the cyberspace security discipline.…”
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Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy by Kean Birch, ‘Damola Adediji

“…Many countries and jurisdictions are reforming their competition policies in response to growing political and public concerns about market concentration, especially when it comes to the market power of Big Tech firms. …”
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Review and Critique of Economic Resistance: The East Asian Experience by Seyed Hossein Mirjalili

“…The ability of East Asian economies to recover the economy was driven by a ten-year building of the resistance economy through financial reform, structural reforms, enhancing institutional quality, and regional conditions. …”
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Emissions Trading as a Guiding Instrument for an Effective and Efficient EU Climate Policy in Transport by Alexander Eisenkopf, Andreas Knorr

“…In its “Fit for 55 Program”, which was announced on 14 July 2021, the Commission proposed comprehensive reforms of the EU’s emissions trading system, the Renewable Energies Directive and the Energy Tax Directive to fully implement the European Green Deal. …”
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SOCIETY AND EDUCATION: THE EXPERIENCE OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA by A. L. Andreev

“…The article, in a comparative context, considers the features of the Russian model of education, and the role of education in the process of social evolution of Russia since Peter the Great’s reforms until 1917. The paper justifies the concept of advanced development of education. …”
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Rights of nature and the indigenous Peoples in Bolivia and Ecuador: a Straitjacket for Progressive development Politics? by Rickard LALANDER

“…These constitutional reforms embrace strengthened proper rights of nature and similarly of ethnic rights. …”
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Accountability of public officials in the French public administration by Miladinović-Bogavac Živanka M., Anđelković Jovana D., Milovanović Dragan M.

“…A detailed analysis and comparison with good practices of other legal systems offers opportunities for specifying the directions of reforms that would improve accountability in public administration. …”
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La professionnalisation des enseignants du secondaire en France. Entre injonctions institutionnelles et approche sociologique by Aziz Jellab

“…The institutional call to the professionalization takes place as the school in France, despite of several reforms, turns out to be very unequal. A tension persists nevertheless between an institutional normative look calling up to the professionalization of the teachers and a sociological approach, although attached to define the contextual and biographic professional conditions. …”
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Faut-il croire le classement de Shangaï ? by Jean-Charles Billaut, Denis Bouyssou, Philippe Vincke

“…Hence, our view is that the Shanghai ranking, in spite of the media coverage it receives, does not qualify as a useful and pertinent tool to discuss the “quality” of academic institutions, let alone to guide the choice of students and family or to promote reforms of higher education systems. We outline the type of work that should be undertaken to offer sound alternatives to the Shanghai ranking.…”
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Julian the Apostate, Claudius Mamertinus, and Ammianus Marcellinus: Filling in a “Blank Spot”? by Gregor Pobežin

“…Despite his brief reign, Julian undertook sig­nificant reforms targeting various aspects of public life, including the administration and provincial governance. …”
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IMPACT OF PANELISTS ON WIBOR RATES – HYBRID APPROACH by Piotr Mielus

“…The reform of financial benchmarks is one of the key elements of stability and trust in the financial market. …”
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Telework in Public Sector Organizations: The Slovak National Library by Mária Murray Svidroňová, Beáta Mikušová Meričková, Juraj Nemec

“…Reforms of government and public administration combined with use of information and communications technologies (ICT) have brought many innovations in public sector, including telework as a form of organizing and performing work out of the employers´ premises. …”
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Sentiment Analysis of German Texts in Finance: Improving and Testing the BPW Dictionary by Matthias Pöferlein

“…Because of the novelty of this dictionary, this paper proposes several reforms and extensions of the original word lists. …”
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