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Fertility Has Been Framed: Why Family Planning Is Not a Silver Bullet for Sustainable Development 生育率已被定格：为什么计划生育不是可持续发展的银弹？

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-12-23 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09410-2

Leigh Senderowicz, Taryn Valley

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Unlocking the Potential of Participatory Planning: How Flexible and Adaptive Governance Interventions Can Work in Practice 释放参与式规划的潜力：灵活、适应性强的治理干预措施如何在实践中发挥作用

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09415-x

Kamran Hakiman, Ryan Sheely

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“No se Cuidan (They Don’t Take Care of Themselves)”: Reframing Reproductive Rights as Contraceptive Responsibility in Post-ICPD Mexico “他们不照顾自己”:墨西哥人发会议后将生殖权利重新定义为避孕责任

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09409-9

Lydia Zacher Dixon

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Universal Health Coverage with Private Options: The Politics of Turkey’s 2008 Health Reform 全民健康覆盖与私人选择:土耳其2008年医疗改革的政治

IF 2.7 2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09402-2

Tim Dorlach, Oya Yeğen

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Dependency, Capacity, and Agency: Austerity and Leadership Failures in Brazil’s Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts 依赖性、能力和机构:巴西本土COVID-19疫苗工作的紧缩和领导失败

2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09403-1

Matthew B. Flynn, Elize Massard da Fonseca

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Subsidy Entrepreneurship and a Culture of Rent-Seeking in Singapore’s Developmental State 新加坡发展型国家的补贴创业与寻租文化

2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09413-z

Bryan Cheang

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Elections and Corruption: Incentives to Steal or Incentives to Invest? 选举与腐败:激励偷窃还是激励投资?

2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09412-0

Mihály Fazekas, Olli Hellmann

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Does Democracy Matter for Lifespan Inequalities? Regime Type and Premature Mortality by Sex 民主对寿命不平等有影响吗?按性别划分的制度类型和过早死亡率

2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09407-x

Ana Ortiz Salazar, Javier Rodríguez, Rena Salayeva, Melissa Rogers

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Global Health Diplomacy and Commodified Health Care: Health Tourism in Malaysia and Thailand 全球卫生外交与商品化卫生保健:马来西亚和泰国的卫生旅游

2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09406-y

Reya Farber, Abigail Taylor

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Toward Transnational Feminist Methodologies in Global Health: Critical Ethnographies of HIV and Abortion 迈向全球健康中的跨国女权主义方法论:艾滋病毒和堕胎的关键民族志

2区社会学

Studies in Comparative International Development Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI: 10.1007/s12116-023-09408-w

Siri Suh, Gowri Vijayakumar

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