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Human capital, capital structure choice and firm profitability in developing countries: An empirical study in Vietnam [PDF]

Accounting, 2020
The paper aims to examine the impact of human capital, capital structure choice and firm profitability of 48,673 Vietnamese construction firms in 2016.
Van Chien Nguyen
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Debt Seniority and Sovereign Debt Crises [PDF]

IMF Working Papers, 2018
Is the seniority structure of sovereign debt neutral for a government's decision between defaulting and raising surpluses? In this paper, we address this question using a model of debt crises where a discretionary government endogenously chooses distortionary taxation and whether to apply an optimal haircut to bondholders. We show that when the size of
Anil Ari, Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola   +2 more
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Latin America and the Caribbean Standardized Public Debt Database: Data as of December 2019

, 2020
The LAC Debt Group believes that to have sound regional policy it is important to have valid, comparable, and standardized data on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Inter-American Development Bank
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Passing the Buck on Debt Relief: How the failure of the private sector to cancel debts is fueling a crisis across the developing world [PDF]

, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic will not be defeated unless it’s defeated in all countries. In developing countries, where public health spending is often severely constrained, significant debt cancellation will be necessary to deal with the ...

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Payday lenders and premature mortality

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Relationships between debt and poor health are worrisome as access to expensive credit expands and population health worsens along certain metrics. We focus on payday lenders as one type of expensive credit and investigate the spatial relationships ...
Megan Agnew, Megan Doherty Bea, Terri Friedline   +2 more
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Demand and growth regimes in finance-dominated capitalism and a progressive equality-, sustainability- and domestic demand-led alternative

PSL Quarterly Review, 2023
Making use of a post-Keynesian/Kaleckian two-country stock-flow consistent (SFC) simulation model, we shed light on different regimes in modern finance-dominated capitalism, their interaction at the global scale, and then on the changes in regimes after
Eckhard Hein, Franz Prante, Alessandro Bramucci   +2 more
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Bulgaria’s Path to the Euro: The Role and Legacy of the Currency Board [PDF]

Financial and Economic Review
Bulgaria’s monetary integration with Europe started with the creation of the currency board in 1997. This paper traces how hard constraints on central bank financing and money creation, combined with political consensus forged in crisis, restored ...
Charles Enoch, Anne-Marie Gulde
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Odious Debt

Liverpool Law Review, 2023
Public international law does not encompass external sovereign debt. In particular, the current status of 'odious debt', which may also be termed 'illegitimate debt', in international law epitomizes the weakness of international law with respect to external sovereign debt.
Başaran, Halil Rahman, Başaran, Halil Rahman   +1 more
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Debt as Power [PDF]

, 2016
Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet ...
Di Muzio, Tim, H. Robbins, Richard
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Dette et droits. Que signifie « payer sa peine » dans les prisons de Brasília

Brésil(s), 2023
In this article, we present an ethnographic material and our interpretations of the meanings that people deprived of liberty in Brasília (Federal District) give to their daily experiences, paying particular attention to ...
Carolina Barreto Lemos, Marcus Cardoso
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