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Bridging The Gap: faith, fertility and inclusive healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand
Full text linkIn this article we examine the structural discrimination and noticeable absence of religious-based and faith-based support within the healthcare system in Aotearoa New Zealand. Between 2019 and 2021, we conducted interviews with 18 Asian migrants who identified as Sunni Muslims. Their accounts highlighted a significant lack of religious guidance and faith-sensitive support and counselling available at fertility clinics. To address these gaps, we put forward recommendations for policymakers, healthcare providers, government agencies, and ethnic community organisations and leaders. Our aim is to promote more inclusive policies and reduce inequities across the national healthcare system
The Best of All Possible Leibnizian Completeness Theorems
Full text linkLeibniz developed several arithmetical interpretations of the assertoric syllogistic in a series of drafts from April 1679. In this article, I present what I take to be one of his most mature articulations of the arithmetical semantics from that series. I show that the assertoric syllogistic can be characterized exactly not only in the full divisibility lattice, as Leibniz implicitly suggests, but in a certain four-element sublattice thereof. This refinement is also shown to be optimal in the sense that the assertoric syllogistic is not complete with respect to any smaller sublattice using Leibniz's truth conditions
Farewell Editorial
Full text linkPurpose: This editorial reflects on the outgoing Editor-in-Chief's (Collins G. Ntim) tenure (September 2023 to August 2025) at the African Accounting and Finance Journal (AAFJ), highlights key institutional and scholarly achievements, introduces the contributions published in Volume 7, Issue 1, and offers forward-looking reflections on the journal's future direction within African and global accounting and finance scholarship.Design/methodology/approach: The editorial adopts a reflective and narrative approach, drawing on editorial experience, institutional developments, and synthesis of the papers included in the issue. It combines reflective commentary with descriptive analysis to situate progress within broader debates on academic publishing, governance, sustainability, and accounting in emerging markets.
Findings: The editorial documents substantial progress in strengthening AAFJ's editorial governance, publication consistency, digital infrastructure, and international visibility. The four papers in this issue demonstrate the journal's commitment to context-sensitivecorporate governance, nuanced sustainability performance relationships, and critical reflections on accounting developments in emerging markets. Together, they underscore the importance of institutional context, stability, and ethical considerations in shaping accounting and finance outcomes in Africa and beyond.Originality/value: This editorial provides rare insider reflections on the development of an Africa-focused academic journal and contributes to the literature on scholarly publishing in emerging economies. It adds value by integrating editorial leadership insights with a substantive synthesis of contemporary research themes relevant to African accounting and finance
Sustainability reporting practices and performance of commercial banks in Ghana: The moderating role of corporate stability
Full text linkPurpose: Having regard for growing interest in the sustainability discourse, this study examined the moderating effect of corporate stability in the relationship between sustainability reporting practices and financial performance of commercial banks in Ghana.
Methodology: Using data sampled from the annual reports of twenty (20) commercial banks in Ghana from the period 2010 to 2022, we used system General Method of Moments (GMM) estimation technique for analysis.
Findings: The study found a significant negative effect of sustainability reporting practices on the financial performance of commercial banks in Ghana. However, the significant negative effect was found to be positive with the moderating role of corporate stability. The findings are robust against endogeneity and instruments proliferation through a Hansen J-test and Arellano-Bond Serial Correlation Test robustness check.
Implications: The findings of the study will contribute to policy and regulation formulation in the area of sustainability practices. It also provides empirical basis for banks to make sustainability commitments, having regard to their stability status.
Originality / Research value: The study is the first of its kind to examine the influence of corporate stability in the sustainability-performance relationship
Ecological Transitions challenges and reform options for better Protected Area outcomes
Full text linkNew Zealand’s protected area network needs an ecological transition to meet the agreed goal of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to protect at least 30% of its territory through ecologically representative and functional designations. This article examines key challenges and proposes three sets of policy reforms to enable such a transition: improving the current poor representativeness through boundary changes informed by contemporary scientific insights; simplifying designations to align protection strength with ecological contributions; and replacing the current outdated framework for visitor access with an ecological zoning framework that serves as the basis for proportionate access rules, drawing on the precautionary principle of decision making. Together, these reforms can improve ecological outcomes, while enabling compatible human access to a greater extent than is currently possible. In contrast, current government proposals to radically change conservation legislation in 2026 move in the opposite direction, risking a lose–lose–lose outcome for nature, communities and international commitments
Fitchean Ignorance and First-order Ignorance: A Neighborhood Look
No full textIn a seminal work Fine (2018), Fine classifies several forms of ignorance, among which are Fitchean ignorance, first-order ignorance, Rumsfeld ignorance, and second-order ignorance. It is shown that there are some relationships among some of them, including that in S4, all higher-order ignorance are reducible to second-order ignorance. This is thought of as a disadvantage by some researchers. It is then natural to ask how to avoid this consequence. We deal with this issue in a much more general framework. In details, we treat the forms of Fitchean ignorance and first-order ignorance as primitive modalities and study them as first-class citizens under neighborhood semantics, in which Rumsfeld ignorance and second-order ignorance are definable. The main contributions include model-theoretical results such as expressivity and frame definability, and axiomatizability. Last but not least, by updating the neighborhood models via the intersection semantics, we extend the results to the dynamic case of public announcements, which gives us some applications to successful formulas. We also show that the result in Fine (2018) stating all higher-order ignorance are reducible to second-order ignorance does not hold in any of our logical systems
A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir
Full text linkJacinda Ardern’s book, A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir, skilfully weaves together the personal and the political. While some reviewers argue that Ardern gives short shrift to her record in government, the book will be an indispensable source for scholars. Ardern’s introspection goes deeper than simply recounting events, or re-litigating policy debates, and can be read as a meditation on the important role of emotion in politics. If Ardern does avoid engaging with criticism of her government’s record it is likely because this would detract from the central purpose of her memoir: to explain how, at the age of 37, she became prime minister in unlikely circumstances, and why it matters
Henkin Completeness of Some Instantial Neighbourhood Logics
No full textIn this note the Henkin-Style construction of a canonical model for Instantial Neighbourhood Logic is addressed. This answers an open question raised in van Benthem at al.'s 2017 article which introduced these interesting neighbourhood logics. After discussing the construction for that logic, Henkin-style constructions are undertaken for the unary fragment of Instantial Neighbourhood logic because, as is noted in the text, the construction offered for the canonical models for full INL would extend beyond that fragment
Partial Valuations Hide the Contaminating Value
Full text linkPartial truth assignments give rise to Boolean-valued semantics for both paracomplete and paraconsistent weak Kleene logic. To accommodate partiality, the semantic consequence relation of classical propositional logic is adjusted in two natural ways, linked by a duality principle
Estimating the Additional Income Needed to Address Higher Deprivation Levels of Children in Households with Disabled People
Full text linkChildren living in households with disabled people have a rate of material hardship three times that of children living in households with no disabled people. The rate of severe material hardship is almost four times higher. This article aims to improve the evidence base to inform policy responses to these inequities. It uses pooled Household Economic Survey data to estimate how much additional income is needed to reduce levels of deprivation to match those of households with children with no disabled people. Examples of the estimated additional income needed range from 24,000 per annum on an equivalised income basis and vary depending on where the household’s income sits in the income distribution. The additional income needed is higher when there are two or more disabled people in the household than when there is one disabled person
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