Preserving the Dollar for the Casino
USAbroadThis essay re-examines the story of the 1978 proposal for a substitution account, an instrument to solve the dollar overhang and enhance the role of Special Drawing Rights introduced by the International Monetary Fund.
Miriam Bettamin
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Profitability in South Africa: An Industry‐Level Analysis
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility and profit on assets in South Africa using a panel dataset comprising 79 industries observed annually between 2017 and 2024. The study uses an industry‐level dataset which, unlike firm‐level inquiries, purges firm‐level noise and acknowledges the empirical regularity ...
Brian Tavonga Mazorodze
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The IMF and Russia in the 1990s [PDF]
This paper explains the IMF's impact on economic policies in Russia, focusing on where the IMF made a difference. The Russian economic and political leadership essentially determined economic policies.
John Odling-Smee
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Variance‐Empirical Mode Decomposition Method for Fault Detection in MMC‐HVDC Transmission Lines
Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.A variance‐embedded empirical mode decomposition (VEMD) method is proposed for fast and accurate fault detection in MMC‐HVDC transmission lines. By combining variance analysis with EMD, the method reliably detects various faults without communication links and remains robust to noise and non‐fault transients.
Seyed Amir Hosseini, Behrooz Taheri
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IMF Quotas; Constructing An International Organization Using Inferior Building Blocks [PDF]
The International Monetary Fund’s structure and rules are based on the quota system that was constructed when the Fund was set up in 1946. Quotas affect contributions and resource availability at the Fund, access to resources, the distribution of Special
Graham Bird, Dane Rowlands
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Pasture feeding improves the fatty acid composition of lamb muscle
Grassland Research, EarlyView.The diet of lambs influences the nutritional quality of their meat. This study showed that pasture‐fed lamb contained significantly higher concentrations of beneficial omega‐3 fatty acids than lamb finished on concentrate diets. These long‐chain omega‐3 fatty acids are associated with improved cardiovascular health and other health benefits.
Lynda S. Perkins +2 more
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IMF concern for reputation and conditional lending failure: theory and empirics [PDF]
The IMF is entrusted with the twofold task of enforcing conditionality and deciding whether or not to continue financial assistance. In this paper we examine the implications on IMF lending behaviour of the existence of uncertainty about its ability to ...
Silvia Marchesi, Laura Sabani
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
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News Brief: IMF Welcomes Thailand\u27s Exchange Rate Action [PDF]
, 1997 IMF press release discussing Thailand\u27s decision to float the ...
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Interest Groups and Demand for IMF Arrangements: Empirical Analysis of the Duration of Periods without Agreement between the IMF and Sub-Saharan African Countries [PDF]
This article aims to establish a connection between the political economy of the reform process in Sub-Saharan African countries and the intervention of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It focuses on the impact of IMF conditionality on the internal
Jacky AMPROU
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