The sustainability of fiscal policies : a study of the European Union by Carlos M.R. Vieira

“…Despite recent efforts towards fiscal consolidation in most developed countries, expensive welfare programs and unfunded social security systems can exert a considerable strain on public finances over the next generations. …”
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Jonathan R. Zatlin, The currency of socialism: money and political culture in East Germany [review] by Jeremy Leaman

“…Zatlin then crystallizes his analysis of the GDR’s failure, by asserting that one (key) deficiency was the monetization and commodification of economic relations in a society which was supposed to achieve precisely the opposite; by setting itself up as a (poor) competitor to the more efficiently monetized and commodified Federal Republic and, more dramatically, by using the DM as a parallel trading currency in the Intershops and exploiting official and black market exchange rates in the Exquisit and Delikat chains, the GDR condemned itself in ideological terms and in practice.…”
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Impact financing for clean cooking energy transitions: reviews and prospects by Susann Stritzke, Malcolm Bricknell, Matthew Leach, Samir Thapa, Yesmeen Khalifa, Ed Brown

“…Achieving universal access to clean cooking requires a significant mobilization of capital to close the current funding gap of around US$7 bn per year. …”
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How to share what we used to own by Artur Grisanti Mausbach, Daniel Quinlan, Samuel Johnson, Luke Harmer

“…It proposes the observation of social aspects of car use and to build knowledge to educate people to live in a shared mobility scenario, and points out the importance of developing meaningful mobility experiences The paper looks into the context of rural transport and questions the monetization of shared mobility through the analysis of the Joyful Journeys project which observes the case of an elderly driver who gives lifts in a countryside village. …”
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FAST DATA: a fair, secure and trusted decentralized IIoT data marketplace enabled by blockchain by Akanksha Dixit, Arjun Singh, Yogachandran Rahulamathavan, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

“…With vast installments of Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) infrastructure, data is produced at a rate like never before. Similarly, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions are getting integrated to numerous services, making them "smarter". …”
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Online identities in and around organizations: A critical exploration and way forward by Marcos Barros, Rafael Alcadipani, Christine Coupland, Andrew D. Brown

“…Drawing on empirical analysis of virtual forums, social media, and platforms, the six papers included here highlight the struggles that accompany identity processes in the online environment and their implications for workers, activists, and other organized selves. In this introduction, we contextualize these contributions with reference to online identities studies and metaphors of the internet as a place, a tool, and a way of being. …”
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Understanding and modeling willingness-to-pay for public policies to enhance road safety: a perspective from Pakistan by Fazle Subhan, Yasir Ali, Shengchuan Zhao, Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios

“…Specifically, this study integrates a machine learning technique (decision tree) with a correlated random parameters Tobit with heterogeneity-in-means model. …”
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