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Connecting Physical and Socio‐Economic Spaces for Multi‐Scale Urban Modelling: A Dataset for London
Geoscience Data Journal, Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2025.A new methodology and comprehensive database is developed (Multi‐scale harmonisation Across Physical and Socio‐Economic Characteristics of a City region, MAPSECC) that connects physical characteristics of a city (building morphology and materials, land‐surface cover) with socio‐economic aspects (building function, microenvironments of activity, urban ...
Denise Hertwig +7 more
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Expanding the Outreach of Financial Services : The Experience of Financial Institutions
, 2008 In 2007-08 Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the central bank of Afghanistan, was in the process of reforming the financial sector. While some considerable advances have been made with respect to basic legislation,
World Bank
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Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2025.ABSTRACT Climate change, urbanization, and anthropogenic activities have intensified rainfall and urban flooding, especially along coastlines. The high spatiotemporal variability and erratic pattern of rainfall highlight the incompetency of independent application of statistical forecasting techniques, especially over the tropics, and demand the ...
Mousumi Ghosh +3 more
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Lessons in Microfinance Downscaling: The Case of Banco de la Empresa, S.A. [PDF]
, 1998 Few commercial banks have engaged in profitable microfinance lending despite repeated attempts by donor agencies to entice their entry. The case of Banco de la Empresa, a Latin American private bank, illustrates how penetration of the microenterprise ...
Inter-American Development Bank
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What is research data “misuse”? And how can it be prevented or mitigated?
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 75, Issue 12, Page 1413-1429, December 2024.Abstract Despite increasing expectations that researchers and funding agencies release their data for reuse, concerns about data misuse hinder the open sharing of data. The COVID‐19 crisis brought urgency to these concerns, yet we are currently missing a theoretical framework to understand, prevent, and respond to research data misuse.
Irene V. Pasquetto +3 more
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Wealth Over Woe: Global Biases in Hydro‐Hazard Research
Earth's Future, Volume 12, Issue 10, October 2024.Abstract Floods, droughts, and rainfall‐induced landslides are hydro‐hazards that affect millions of people every year. Anticipation, mitigation, and adaptation to these hazards is increasingly outpaced by their changing magnitude and frequency due to climate change.
Lina Stein +7 more
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Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2024.Abstract The Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR), located in the Chao Phraya River basin delta, is particularly vulnerable to floods, with susceptibility heightened by geographical aspects and rapid urbanization. This study aimed to assess spatiotemporal flood exposure and allow proper flood‐risk recognition among all stakeholders through a three‐phase ...
Siriporn Darnkachatarn, Yoshio Kajitani
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Creditor country regulations and commercial bank lending to developing countries [PDF]
Ever since the debt crisis of 1982, commercial banks continue to be reluctant in lending to developing countries. It is often argued that regulatory pressures on commercial banks have also contributed to the banks'reduced exposure to developing countries.
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli
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Bank Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Case of Uganda Commercial Bank
, 2007 Previous empirical analyses have found that bank privatizations are more successful when the government fully relinquishes control, when the bank is privatized to a strategic investor, and when foreign-owned
Cull, Robert +2 more
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Market or clan: A comparative study of risk sharing institutional evolution in China and Europe
International Studies of Economics, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 293-327, June 2024.Abstract In the psychological and sociological framework of risk, we establish a static and dynamic equilibrium model for risk‐sharing institutional evolution. Particularly, through a comparative study of marine insurance development in China and Europe, we address a wide set of research questions concerning why China and Europe relied on different ...
Wenge Zhu
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