Late last year, the Reserve Bank gave 1,000 Australians diaries and asked them to record every payment they made over the course of a week. Of the 13,000 payments, only 17 were with checks.
Economics & Business
Jun 20, 2023
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"Will you be paying with cash or card?"
Social Sciences
May 17, 2023
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As workplace practices continue to shift, organizations are finding inventive ways to keep their employees motivated and committed to reaching their goals. According to a new study, researchers at the University of Waterloo ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2023
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Intercropping—the practice of planting mixtures of crops—can be an effective pest management tool worldwide, a new University of Florida study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology shows.
Ecology
Apr 5, 2023
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Being paid for work in cash is often frowned upon in the UK. It can be seen as a way of avoiding tax, or cheating the system, and detrimental to economic growth.
Social Sciences
Feb 3, 2023
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A new study by Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion Universities reveals a phenomenon of "chivalrous sexism" towards women in need. According to the study, about 2 out of 3 men (62%) would be willing to help a woman in distress whose ...
Social Sciences
Dec 12, 2022
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California's commercial orchards are home to nearly 2.5 million acres of almonds, walnuts, stone fruit and similar crops. Growers focus their most intense weed management efforts on establishing a clear crop row so that weeds ...
Ecology
Oct 28, 2022
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Over the last three decades, there has been a proliferation of social protection programs across the Global South in what some have dubbed a development revolution. International development agencies across the ideological ...
Economics & Business
Oct 17, 2022
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"It is crucial that the revenues from CO2 pricing are returned, and in a targeted manner: Distributing them back in shotgun-mode is only the second-best solution," explains Martin Hänsel, an economist at PIK and lead author ...
Economics & Business
Sep 30, 2022
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The rise in local banking branches closing across the UK has increased the demand for access to cash deposit services at Post Offices, new research has found.
Economics & Business
Sep 26, 2022
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