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Making Water Investible: Development Banking, Regulatory Governance, and the Institutional Production of Sanitation Infrastructure in Brazil

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why did long‐horizon private investment in Brazilian water and sanitation expand after 2016 despite fragmented authority and persistent political contestation? This article places the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) inside, rather than outside, the credible‐commitment framework. It argues that the bank operated as a credibility intermediary:
Charles Corrêa Schramm   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Orphans of Bishop Richard Fletcher: New Archival Discoveries on the Siblings of Playwright John Fletcher

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596. Navigating the epistemological limits of adversarial legal records from Chancery and the Star Chamber, the study reveals the tumultuous ...
Domenico Lovascio
wiley   +1 more source

Nonparametric Survival Estimation With Contaminated and Adjudicated Events

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the conditional expert Kaplan–Meier estimator, an extension of the classical Kaplan–Meier estimator designed for time‐to‐event data subject to both right‐censoring and contamination. Such contamination, where observed events may not reflect true outcomes, is common in applied settings, including insurance and credit risk, where expert
Martin Bladt, Kristian Vilhelm Dinesen
wiley   +1 more source

Engendering China‐Africa development cooperation: A Southern feminist perspective

open access: yesDevelopment Policy Review, Volume 44, Issue 6, November 2026.
Abstract Motivation China's leadership has increasingly articulated commitments to gender equality and women's development within international cooperation frameworks, including successive Beijing Action Plans. However, research and policy debates on China‐Africa development cooperation continue to prioritize macroeconomic, financial, and geopolitical ...
Yiping Cai
wiley   +1 more source

Threading the needle: The delicate art of designing debt‐for‐nature swaps

open access: yesDevelopment Policy Review, Volume 44, Issue 6, November 2026.
Abstract Motivation Debt‐for‐nature swaps (D4NS) have re‐emerged as a potential instrument to address the dual challenges of sovereign‐debt distress and environmental degradation. Despite their growing use, particularly since 2021, their effectiveness as a “triple win” for debt relief, fiscal space, and conservation outcomes remains unclear, with ...
Alexander Dryden
wiley   +1 more source

Large Language Models and Agentic AI for Vulnerability Management: A Systematic Review

open access: yesExpert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 11, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Large Language Models (LLMs), pretrained language and code models and agentic artificial intelligence are increasingly being investigated across the vulnerability‐management lifecycle. However, the evidence remains fragmented across code‐level prediction, vulnerability‐intelligence enrichment, exploit‐oriented evaluation, automated repair and ...
Yasamin Akrami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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