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The Political Connotation of International Trade and Globalisation: A Common Misunderstanding
No full textGlobalisation is often associated with a conservative political ideology and usually faces opposition from progressive political groups. This essay challenges this conventional view and tries to illustrate how the globalisation process is consistent with a progressive political philosophy. It, furthermore, argues that the removal of this political bias would allow both proponents of free trade and progressive political organisations to be more effective in pursuing their own objectives
How to escape from a poverty trap: The case of Bangladesh
No full textSince the achievement of its independence in 1971, Bangladesh has attracted the attention of generations of scholars who studied the country from several perspectives. Building on different strands of literature, this paper aims to provide a concise but consistent narrative illustrating the peculiar path of development followed by the country over the last four decades. The study argues that the development of Bangladesh can be explained by referring to four distinct drivers (the increase of agricultural yields, the rapid decline of fertility rate, the surge of migrants’ remittances and the development of the garments industry) which, emerging at different times, triggered growth and allowed the country to escape the poverty trap. The first part of the article explores in detail the emergence of the development drivers whereas the second one estimates their contribution to the growth of per capita income over the 1974–2011 period
Robustness of a quasicrystalline higher-order topological insulator
No full textIt was recently discovered that quasicrystalline systems may provide a platform for the realisation of higher order topological insulators, where the topological phase is protected by spatial symmetries. In this paper I focus on a specific model and study the robustness of its topological phase against perturbations of the protecting symmetry. This is done both by varying the shape of the sample and by
deforming the lattice. While signatures of the higher order topological phase can persist, the effects of an even slight symmetry breaking are significant
Fair trade or trade fair? International food trade and cross-border macronutrient flows
No full textThis study examines global food trade from a nutritional perspective, paying particular attention to its implications for food security in low-income countries. By describing food trade in terms of the quantities of three essential macronutrients (carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins) embedded in food, the analysis goes beyond a simple description of trade values, quantities, or caloric content, as is common in the literature. Furthermore, the study provides estimates of the implicit price of each macronutrient, their evolution over time, and their implications in terms of North-South food trade. The data show that, over the 1996–2014 period, the volume of macronutrients exchanged on international markets has more than doubled, with carbohydrates accounting for over 60% of trade flows, but proteins and lipids growing at a faster pace. Proteins were found to be the most expensive macronutrient, followed by lipids and carbohydrates. In general, macronutrients embedded in animal and processed products are more expensive than those in vegetal and unprocessed food. The results also suggest that the participation in international food trade has positive effects on low-income countries’ aggregate food availability and food access, two pillars of food security. Indeed, low-income countries register a net inflow of all macronutrients and take advantage of “nutritional arbitrages” available on international food markets due to macronutrients’ price differentials
La nascita delle REMS in Toscana ai sensi della legge n. 81/2014. [The new security residential facilities (REMS) in Tuscany according to law n. 81/2014]
No full textThe present study describes the birth and the development of the new Security Residential Facilities (REMS) in Tuscany according to Law n. 81/2014 and it underlines some social-demographic and forensic characteristics of the patients live in Volterra's REMS. Finally, this contribution wants to analyse the main critical issues of this new structure from clinical and forensic view-point
BENIGN SYMPTOMATIC ADRENAL CYST: LAPAROSCOPIC RETROPERINEAL APPROACH G. Carmignani, A. Simonato, C. Corbu, A. F. De Rose, P. Traverso S. Galli ABSTRACTS XXIITH EAU PARIGI, 1-4 SETTEMBRE 1996
No full textThe Big Five personality traits and earnings: A meta-analysis
No full textThe past two decades have witnessed increased interest in the relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, as well as the emergence of the Five-Factor Model as the key reference framework for the study of personality. In this paper, we provide the first meta-analytical review of the empirical literature on the association between personal earnings and the Big Five personality traits. The analysis combines the results of 62 peer-reviewed articles published from 2001–2020, from which we retrieved 896 partial effect sizes. Overall, the primary literature provides robust support for a positive association between personal earnings and the traits of Openness, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion, while simultaneously revealing a negative and significant association between earnings and the traits of Agreeableness and Neuroticism. We find no evidence of a substantial publication bias. Meta-regression estimates suggest that Openness and Conscientiousness are positively associated with earnings even when primary researchers control for individual cognitive abilities and educational attainments. Similarly, the studies that include labor market control variables exhibit weaker associations between earnings and Extraversion and Agreeableness. The results of the primary studies seem unaffected by the time at which the Big Five are measured, as well as by the scale and number of inventory items. Meta-regression estimates suggest that the results of the primary literature are not stable across cultures and gender, and that the ranking and academic field of the journal matter
Globalization and electoral outcomes: Evidence from Italy
No full textWe study whether and to what extent the electoral dynamics in Italy over the 1994–2008 period can be explained by the development of economic factors associated with globalization. To measure the level of exposure to globalization for local labor markets, our main unit of analysis, we use the intensity of import competition from China and the presence of immigrants. Looking at parties’ political positions and employing an estimation strategy that accounts for endogeneity and time-invariant unobserved effects across local labor markets, we find that both immigration intensity and exposure to import competition from China have contributed positively to the electoral outcomes of far-right parties, whereas only immigration intensity has increased the vote shares of right-wing and traditionalist/authoritarian/nationalist parties. Some evidence, albeit not robust, shows that immigration may have also had a positive impact on far-left parties, thus possibly further contributing toward political polarization. Moreover, electoral turnout has responded negatively to an increased presence of migrants. While the above effects seem to work through the mediation of labor markets, our results, especially those related to immigration, suggest that other mechanisms at the level of local communities are also at play
Role of the edges in a quasicrystalline Haldane model
No full textWe study the role of the edges in determining the features of the topological phase in a quasicrystalline higher-order topological insulator. We consider a specific model consisting of two stacked Haldane models with opposite Chern number and a 30 degrees twist, whose structure is crystallographically equivalent to that of the graphene quasicrystal. We find that the gap-opening in the low-energy spectrum of the higher-order topological insulator occurs at different energies when different kinds of edges are considered. Crucially, bearded bonds appear to be necessary for the gap to appear close to the charge neutrality point. In the more realistic case of zigzag edges, the gap opens symmetrically in the electron and hole sectors, away from zero energy. We explain our findings by inspecting the edge bands of the decoupled bilayer, in the approximation of quasiperiodicity
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