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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Leaders in the global banking network: Analysis of the Bank for International Settlements network data. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bonato A, Palan JC, Szava A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Towards the Democratisation of Care? Insights From Co‐Governance in Local Welfare in Spain and Italy

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The organisation and distribution of care responsibilities represent a central issue in contemporary welfare debates. Although welfare systems have progressively sought to socialise care related risks tackling distribution's inequality, the organisation of care services received less attention.
Francesca Donati, María Jesús Rodríguez‐García   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health equity and the global social contract: beyond incrementalism and illusionary solidarity. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Mulumba M, Oga J, Baguma C, Nantaba J, Ruano AL.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Partisan Cities: How State‐Local Political Alignment Shapes Credit Risk and Information Processing in the Municipal Bond Market

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
wiley   +1 more source

Valuation effects of U.S. monetary policy tightening: The roles of foreign exposure. [PDF]

PLoS One
Fang X, Peng X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi, Jere R. Francis, Antonio Marra, Nicola Pecchiari   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring health financing vulnerability due to reductions in official development assistance: A conceptual framework with empirical application across 47 African countries. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Asamani JA, Faye S, Boris Bediakon KS, Kipruto H, Okoroafor SC, Kayita J, Dioka A, Ali A, Droti B, Chukwujekwu O.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We assemble and describe a sample of 174,782 lawsuits filed against 218,437 public‐company lawsuit‐defendants in federal district court from 2006 to 2021. These lawsuits involve an array of allegations, including product liability, civil rights discrimination, contract breaches, improper compensation and labor practices, antitrust violations ...
MARY BROOKE BILLINGS, ROBERT W. HOLTHAUSEN, CHRISTINE PETROVITS, DANYE WANG   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Debt vs. revenue share financing: A theoretical study on revenue share finance in a capital-constrained newsvendor. [PDF]

PLoS One
Song Y, Jiang M.
europepmc   +1 more source