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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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The External Debt-Servicing Capacity of Asian Developing Countries
Asian Development Review, 1983 During the past ten years, the external debts of the developing countries have increased at an unprecedented rate. According to estimates of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the total long-term debt (disbursed) of 158 ...
Jungsoo Lee
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The External Debt-Servicing Constraint and Public Expenditure Composition: Evidence from African Economies [PDF]
The paper explores the impact of a binding external debt-servicing constraint on the sectoral composition of government expenditures in the economies of Africa, where this constraint has traditionally been most prevalent.
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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We develop a stylised model of multiple equilibria, with country risk spreads at the focus of the analysis. Fears that the country default on its debt triggers a reversal in the direction of inflows of international financial capital raise interest-rate ...
Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka
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Debt reduction: the basis and shape of a new strategy [PDF]
, 2008 The burden of past restructuring of the external debt of developing countries has been distributed asymmetrically among creditors owing to the lack of incentives for voluntary debt reduction.
Kneer, Josef, Sachs, Jeffrey
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&A), board characteristics, and ESG performance in BRICS companies, considering the moderating role of sectoral sensitivity. The study analyzes 11,402 observations from 2293 BRICS companies, employing Two‐Stage Least Squares (2SLS) to address endogeneity and logistic ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos +2 more
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The Double Charge of External Debt Servicing [PDF]
The approach proposed in the paper is rather unconventional, yet very rigorous. The paper set the proof of the iniquitous double charge laid on indebted countries when paying interest on their external debt.External Debt ...
Bernard Schmitt
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Does Microcredit Create Over-indebtedness? [PDF]
, 2012 In the context of the present crisis of microfinance, it is quite common to use the term over-indebtedness among the poor. Coming up with a precise definition of over-indebtedness for research or regulatory purposes is surprisingly a complex challenge ...
Sk. Mahmudul Alam, Mahmud
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