Steering Sustainability: Empirical Insights Into Enhancing ESG Ratings via CSR Committees
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study contributes to the ongoing discussion on the increasing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) committees and their characteristics in driving a stronger focus on sustainability. Using ESG and financial data from Refinitiv/Datastream, governance information from BoardEx, and country‐level indicators from Eurostat, we ...
Andrea Caccialanza +3 more
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Taking on the Corporate Determinants of Ill-health and Health Inequity: A Scoping Review of Actions to Address Excessive Corporate Power to Protect and Promote the Public's Health. [PDF]
Int J Health Policy Manag, 2023 Wood B, Lacy-Nichols J, Sacks G.
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Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence IMF Decisions? Evidence from Panel Data [PDF]
We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the IMF, using panel data for 191 countries over the period 1951 to 2004.
Axel Dreher +2 more
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Are natural resources a curse on the distributional consequences of financial development?
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines how natural resource dependence shapes the distributional effects of financial development in developing economies. Using a balanced panel of 90 countries from 1995 to 2022 and dynamic panel and nonlinear threshold methods, we show that financial development reduces wealth inequality when resource dependence is low, but ...
Dong‐Hyeon Kim +2 more
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Beyond Market Failure: A Critique of the ‘New Economics of Industrial Policy’
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been an apparent tidal shift in neoclassical industrial policy scholarship as a ‘new economics of industrial policy’ has emerged. These scholars claim to have fundamentally repositioned the debate on industrial policy, supposedly offering a novel account of how, and why, states turn to industrial policy (the ‘new ...
Hamish William Ayton Evans
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The effects of IMF loan conditions on poverty in the developing world. [PDF]
J Int Relat Dev (Ljubl), 2022 Biglaiser G, McGauvran RJ.
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The Determinants of IMF Loan Programs [PDF]
This paper focuses on the bargaining process underlying financial arrangements between the IMF and recipient countries. The primary aim is to investigate the relationship between the own country characteristics, both in terms of macroeconomic conditions ...
Matteo Alessandro Bobba
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Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the changes in the structure of employment in Central and Eastern European firms between 2001 and 2007, before the Global Financial Crisis and following the reforms in the labour and credit markets in these economies.
Elisabetta Magnani
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An integrated fuzzy MCDM model for prioritizing strategies for successful implementation and operation of the bus rapid transit system. [PDF]
Ann Oper Res, 2023 Bouraima MB +4 more
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Chinese Lending and Sovereign Debt Distress in Developing Countries
Economics &Politics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China has emerged as the world's largest bilateral creditor to developing countries, yet its effects on sovereign debt outcomes remain contested. Competing theoretical perspectives predict opposing effects: Chinese lending may increase debt vulnerability through opacity, moral hazard, and unsustainable obligations, or reduce it by providing ...
Patrick E. Shea
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