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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
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

Light Chain Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance: Diagnosis, Biology, and Clinical Management

European Journal of Haematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Light chain monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (LC‐MGUS) is defined by an abnormal serum free light chain ratio and elevated involved light chain in the absence of a detectable immunoglobulin heavy chain on immunofixation and of end‐organ damage attributable to a plasma cell disorder.
Sigurður Yngvi Kristinsson, Thórir Einarsson Long, Sigrún Thorsteinsdóttir   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can participatory budgeting mitigate government debt risk？-An empirical analysis using cross-national panel data. [PDF]

PLoS One
Li Y, Zhang Q.
europepmc   +1 more source

Political Accountability During Crises: Evidence From 40 Years of Financial Policies

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We show that politicians facing a binding term limit are more likely to engage in financial deliberalization than those facing reelection, but only in the wake of a financial crisis. In particular, they implement policies that tend to favor incumbent financial institutions over the general population, such as increasing barriers to entry in ...
Orkun Saka, Yuemei Ji, Clement Minaudier
wiley   +1 more source

High-Accuracy Characterization of a Single Thin Film on a Substrate from One Transmittance Spectrum by an Advanced Envelope Method Addressing Voids, Tail Electron Transitions, and Deep-Level Electron Transitions in a-Si Films. [PDF]

Nanomaterials (Basel)
Minkov D, Angelov G, Nikolov D, Rusev R, Ballester M, Fernandez S, Marquez E.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking informal circularity through metanarratives: Tensions, insights and directions for management research

International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the intersection of the informal and circular economies and its implications for business, management and organization (BMO) scholarship and practice. Informal circularity, practices of collecting, reusing, repairing, recycling and repurposing materials outside formal economic, legal and regulatory arrangements, constitutes
Tulin Dzhengiz, Ling Li, Vildan Tasli Karabulut, Maryline Kiptoo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bias in adjudication: Investigating the impact of artificial intelligence, media, financial and legal institutions in pursuit of social justice. [PDF]

PLoS One
Javed K, Li J.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Horse Race of Machine‐Learning Methods to Predict Banking Crises

International Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To examine if one machine‐learning model can consistently elucidate financial vulnerabilities, both over time and across levels of development, this paper applies 13 machine‐learning algorithms to evaluate comparative forecasting performance across several banking crises.
Emile du Plessis
wiley   +1 more source

From Spatial Patterns to Prognosis: Decoding Single-Cell Architecture in Cancer with Hyperplex Immunofluorescence Imaging. [PDF]

J Cancer
Azimi M.
europepmc   +1 more source