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Scribal and authorial openings in Theravada manuscripts: The Evidence of the Nevill Collection (2012)
Journal Article
Crosby, K. (2012). Scribal and authorial openings in Theravada manuscripts: The Evidence of the Nevill Collection. Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 2, 124-145

Complete manuscripts of Theravāda Buddhist texts almost always open with an auspicious formula in homage to the Buddha. In manuscripts from Sri Lanka, the two most common opening formulae are the expressions of homage to the Buddha so widespread in o... Read More about Scribal and authorial openings in Theravada manuscripts: The Evidence of the Nevill Collection.

Indian Foreign policy (2012)
Book Chapter
Thakur, V. (2012). Indian Foreign policy. In B. S. Chimni, & S. Mallavarapu (Eds.), International relations perspectives for the global south. Pearson

Financial Development and Economic Growth: Global and African Evidence (2012)
Journal Article
Murinde, V. (2012). Financial Development and Economic Growth: Global and African Evidence. Journal of African Economies, 21(suppl 1), i10-i56. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejr042

This paper aims to survey existing research on financial development and economic growth, highlighting the theoretical models and evidence from recent empirical work. Emphasis is placed on the flow-of-funds story (finance matters for economic growth)... Read More about Financial Development and Economic Growth: Global and African Evidence.

A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na‘t al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū‘ Tradition (2012)
Book
Contadini, A. (2012). A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na‘t al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū‘ Tradition. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004222656

From language documentation to language planning: not necessarily a direct route (2012)
Book Chapter
Sallabank, J. (2012). From language documentation to language planning: not necessarily a direct route. In F. Seifart, G. Haig, N. Himmelmann, D. Jung, A. Margetts, & P. Trilsbeek (Eds.), Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization (118-125). University of Hawai‘i Press

In this paper I consider how documentary linguists can provide support for community language planning initiatives, and discuss some issues. These relate partly to the process of language documentation: what and who we choose to document, how we de... Read More about From language documentation to language planning: not necessarily a direct route.

Labour Regulations and Labour Standards in India: Decent Work? (2012)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2012). Labour Regulations and Labour Standards in India: Decent Work?. Global labour journal, 3(1), 16-39. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v3i1.1111

The article assesses the ILO decent work agenda in the Global South: its objectives and coherence, its impact on labour relations and conditions, and its overall policy direction in relation to alternative labour rights and welfare policy thinking. T... Read More about Labour Regulations and Labour Standards in India: Decent Work?.

Guest editors' introduction (2012)
Journal Article
Lerche, J., Guérin, I., & Srivastava, R. (2012). Guest editors' introduction. Global labour journal, 3(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v3i1.1110

Questioni agrarie o questioni del lavoro? La questione agraria e la sue irrilevanza per il lavoro rurale nell'India neo-liberista (2012)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2012). Questioni agrarie o questioni del lavoro? La questione agraria e la sue irrilevanza per il lavoro rurale nell'India neo-liberista. Sociologia del lavoro, 76-105. https://doi.org/10.3280/SL2012-128006

This article reinterrogates the positions on the agrarian question in India, to reach fresh conclusions about important agrarian policies of the left, including that of land reforms. Internationally, the classic political economy approach to agrarian... Read More about Questioni agrarie o questioni del lavoro? La questione agraria e la sue irrilevanza per il lavoro rurale nell'India neo-liberista.

Manifestationen der Globalisierung : Kapital, Staat und Arbeit in Mauritius, 1825 - 2005 (2012)
Thesis
Neveling, P. Manifestationen der Globalisierung : Kapital, Staat und Arbeit in Mauritius, 1825 - 2005. (Thesis). University of Halle-Wittenburg

Time varying betas and the unconditional distribution of asset returns (2012)
Journal Article
Adcock, C., Cortez, M. C., Armada, M. J. R., & Silva, F. Time varying betas and the unconditional distribution of asset returns. Quantitative Finance, 12(6), 951-967. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697688.2010.544667

This paper draws attention to the fact that under standard assumptions the time varying betas model cannot capture the dynamics in beta. Conversely, evidence of time variation in beta using this model is equivalent to non-normality in the uncondition... Read More about Time varying betas and the unconditional distribution of asset returns.

Risk seeking and measures of portfolio performance (2012)
Journal Article
Adcock, C. (2012). Risk seeking and measures of portfolio performance. International Journal of Portfolio Analysis and Management, 1(2), 161. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPAM.2012.049200

Civil Society as a Conflictual Sphere in Post-liberalization Tanzania: The Roles of NGOs and Trade Unions (2012)
Book
McQuinn, M. (2012). Civil Society as a Conflictual Sphere in Post-liberalization Tanzania: The Roles of NGOs and Trade Unions. LAP Lambert

This book uses a Gramscian perspective to examine the marginalization of trade unions, as part of the reconfiguration of civil society, in post-liberalization Tanzania. The liberalization of the Tanzanian economy, which started during the 1980s and w... Read More about Civil Society as a Conflictual Sphere in Post-liberalization Tanzania: The Roles of NGOs and Trade Unions.

The Mongols in Iran (2012)
Book Chapter
Lane, G. (2012). The Mongols in Iran. In T. Daryaee (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History. Oxford University Press

Chinggis Khan, World Conqueror (2012)
Book Chapter
Lane, G. (2012). Chinggis Khan, World Conqueror. In L. M. Matheson (Ed.), Icons of the Middle Ages (134-140). Greenwood

La Yamaat-i Islami (2012)
Book Chapter
Hartung, J.-P. (2012). La Yamaat-i Islami. In F. Peters, & R. Ortega (Eds.), Los movimientos islámicos transnacionales y la emergencia de un «islam europeo» (47-56). Edicions Bellaterra

„Und tötet euch nicht!“ — Martyrium im Islam zwischen Heilsversprechen und Heilserwartung (2012)
Book Chapter
Hartung, J.-P. (2012). „Und tötet euch nicht!“ — Martyrium im Islam zwischen Heilsversprechen und Heilserwartung. In R. Grundmann, & S. Fuhrmann (Eds.), Martyriumsvorstellungen in Antike und Mittelalter: Leben oder sterben für Gott? (275-305). Brill

India (2012)
Book Chapter
Hartung, J.-P. (2012). India. In G. Böwering, & P. Crone (Eds.), The Princeton Encyclopeadia of Islamic Political Thought (21-23). Princeton UP

Judicial Independence and Accountability in Cameroon: Balancing a Tenuous Relationship (2012)
Journal Article
Enonchong, L.-S. (2012). Judicial Independence and Accountability in Cameroon: Balancing a Tenuous Relationship. African Journal of Legal Studies, 5(3), 313-337. https://doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12342013

This article examines Cameroon’s approach to judicial accountability focusing on its political accountability to the executive. The article contends that the judiciary in Cameroon is excessively accountable to the executive, a position which has resu... Read More about Judicial Independence and Accountability in Cameroon: Balancing a Tenuous Relationship.

Xhosa poetry (2012)
Book Chapter
Opland, J. (2012). Xhosa poetry. In R. Greene (Ed.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 4th ed (1544-1545). Princeton University Press

Abantu-Batho and the Xhosa poets (2012)
Book Chapter
Opland, J. (2012). Abantu-Batho and the Xhosa poets. In P. Limb (Ed.), The People’s Paper: A Centenary History and Anthology of Abantu-Batho (201-225). Wits University Press