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Illicit Financial Flows, Extractive Sectors, and the Energy Transition: Building State Capacity to Finance the SDGs

Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement
States play a crucial role in the capture and allocation of commodity revenues shaping development outcomes. This chapter examines their capacity to address illicit financial flows and better finance development programmes, focusing on energy transition ...
Philippe Le Billon
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Determinants of local food producer participation in state‐sponsored marketing programs: Evidence from Missouri

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
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A comparison of methodologies in the stress testing of credit risk – alternative scenario and dependency constructs

Quantitative Finance and Economics, 2018
In the aftermath of the financial crisis of the last decade, banking supervisors have sought the solution to the problem of determining the optimal capital levels that an institution should hold, in order to support their risk taking activities.
Michael Jacobs Jr., Frank J. Sensenbrenner   +1 more
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Factor Based Commodity Investing

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2020
A multi-factor commodity portfolio combining the momentum, basis, basis-momentum, hedging pressure and value commodity factor portfolios outperforms significantly, economically and statistically, widely used commodity benchmarks.
Athanasios Sakkas, N. Tessaromatis
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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Retracted: Can the chemical industry solve the climate change?On the role of human energy production, renewable energies, and the potential of chemistry as a solution provider

Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView., 2023
Let us consider an alternative perspective on climate change: The sum of solar radiation and heat generated by human activity result in a net energy input of 1.96 times that of the Sun on the Earth's surface. The expanding global population is expected to exacerbate this issue. Potential solutions are proposed, including replacement and heat recycling.
Martin Bertau, Gerald Steiner
wiley   +1 more source

Repositioning Chinese development finance in Latin America: opportunities for green finance [PDF]

, 2016
This repository item contains a policy brief from the Boston University Global Economic Governance Initiative. The Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) is a research program of the Center for Finance, Law & Policy, the Frederick S.
Gallagher, Kevin P., Yuan, Fei
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
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Pluralizing and problematizing carbon finance

Progress in Human Geography, 2020
Growing emphasis on finance as key to decarbonization requires social science research that critically attends to the emergent and diverse forms taken by carbon finance.
G. Bridge, H. Bulkeley, P. Langley, Bregje van Veelen   +3 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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