In 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was announced in Astana. It expected to connect as New Silk producing East consuming West. line with this, Kazakhstan introduced a major infrastructure program called “NurlyZhol” improve logistic corridor. Now, after almost 10 years its announcement it is worth seeing whether country benefited from programs expectations set up ago came true. Besides l...

Critical Agrarian Studies has three actual and aspirational interlocking features which together connect the worlds of academic research practical politics: it is politically engaged, pluralist internationalist. These also defined older generation agrarian studies that gave birth to Journal Peasant (JPS) 50 years ago, in 1973. Within a decade or so journal's inauguration, world had been transfo...

This paper examines the relation between political connections and informed trading by corporate insiders in the context of government intervention during the Financial Crisis. Consistent with politically connected insiders extracting rents from shareholders, we find strong evidence of a relation between political connections and informed trading by corporate insiders. We find that the relation...

Health in All Policies (HiAP) has gained attention as a potential tool to address complex health and societal challenges at global, regional, national and subnational levels. In a recent article, Lawless et al propose an evaluation framework developed in the context of the South Australia HiAP initiative. Strategies, mediators, activities and impacts identified in the framework could potentiall...

Ethnic maps have regained importance and are again frequently published, due to an increase in ethnic consciousness, many conflicts the attempts of young states particularly eastern Europe present themselves as nation by maps. Questions their methodology, how suitable individual ethno-cartographic methods depict certain structures whether they applied correctly or not therefore on agenda cartog...