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Coverage and use of insecticide-treated bed nets in households with children aged under five years in Liberia. [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Action, 2012
Bawo LL   +8 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Neoliberal Imperialism and Pan-African Resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Neoliberalism has in the past three decades had a tremendous impact on both thought and practice throughout most of the world, and has dominated international development since the early 1980s.
Hahn, Niels Stephan Cato
core   +2 more sources

Dedollarization in Liberia-Lessons from Cross-Country Experience

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2009
Liberia's experience with a dual currency regime, with the U.S. dollar enjoying legal tender status, dates to its founding as a sovereign country in 1847.
L. Erasmus   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dollar Safety and the Global Financial Cycle

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2019
We develop a model of the global financial cycle with one key ingredient: the international demand for safe dollar assets. The model matches patterns of dollar borrowing and currency mismatch, the U.S.
Zhengyang Jiang   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Foreign Safe Asset Demand and the Dollar Exchange Rate

open access: yesJournal of Finance, 2018
We develop a theory that links the U.S. dollar's valuation in FX markets to foreign investors' demand for U.S. safe assets. When the convenience yield that foreign investors derive from holding U.S. safe assets increases, the U.S.
Zhengyang Jiang   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Student Academic Performance: The Role of Motivation, Strategies, and Perceived Factors Hindering Liberian Junior and Senior High School Students Learning

open access: yes, 2017
The nature of motivation and learning strategy use is vital to improving student learning outcomes. This study was intended to explore the motivational beliefs and learning strategy use by Liberian junior and senior high school students in connection ...
Charles Gbollie, Harriett Pearl Keamu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Playing to live: outcome evaluation of a community-based psychosocial expressive arts program for children during the Liberian Ebola epidemic

open access: yesGlobal Mental Health, 2019
Background. This paper reviews the efficacy of a community psychosocial arts program focused on building mental health capacity within post-Ebola Liberia.
C. A. Decosimo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Global Trade and the Dollar

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2017
We document that it is not bilateral exchange rates but the dollar exchange rate that drives global trade prices and volumes. Using a newly constructed data set of bilateral price and volume indices for more than 2,500 country pairs, we establish the ...
G. Gopinath, Mikkel Plagborg-Møller
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Dollar, Bank Leverage and the Deviation from Covered Interest Parity

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review: Insights, 2016
We document a triangular relationship in that a stronger dollar goes hand in hand with larger deviations from covered interest parity (CIP) and contractions of cross-border bank lending in dollars.
Stefan Avdjiev   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The EMU: forerunners and durability [PDF]

open access: yes
The first article examines the history and theory of monetary unions to ask what factors will foster a stable European Monetary Union. It concludes that a decentralized arrangement of national central banks may undermine the EMU’s durability.European ...
Robert F. Graboyes
core   +2 more sources

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