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Jokowi first expressed determination to shift the seat of government from Jakarta in April 2019, shortly after the election in which he secured a second and final five-year term…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB268074
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The women's rights' debate.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB199464
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This is Canada's first balanced budget since the 2008-09 financial crisis, but had been delayed by about two months. This was ostensibly due to the government's need to…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB199099
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The announcement followed the approval of several legislative amendments earlier last month, relating to family issues such as corporal punishment and neglect of the elderly. The…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB258680
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The new funding reopens a debate about technology’s role in revitalising distressed manufacturing communities across the Rust Belt, formerly the US industrial heartland stretching…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB268442
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Regular questioning of cabinet members by opposition MPs has hardened divisions between parliament and the cabinet. The conflictual relationship has stalled important economic…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB267824
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The bill includes items to manage the public health and economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the disease has many direct and indirect effects.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB251381
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2023 was marked by months of political suspense as parties attempted to form a governing coalition after the May general election. Srettha Thavisin became prime minister in…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB284471
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Gitanas Nauseda won the second-round presidential election on May 26, 2019, by 67% to Ingrida Simonyte’s 33%. Both ran as independents; the opposition conservative Homeland…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253571
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The proposal seeks to deal with a supposedly temporary shortage of workers but will also help address the longer-term issue of Japan’s declining workforce and ageing society.