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Does the digital transformation of group finance companies boost subsidiary investment efficiency?

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The digital transformation of financial institutions can shape corporate investment behavior. However, existing research has largely focused on external financial markets, paying limited attention to the role of internal capital markets.
Hai Ding, Wenbo Zhu, Huiqing Gao
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Chronic Absence as a Public Health Priority: A Framework for Coordinated Action

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Chronic absence should be recognized as a public health indicator and early warning sign that systems are failing to meet the developmental, social, and health needs of students. Improving student attendance requires cross‐sector policy action across education, health, and public health to address the structural and social determinants of
CATHERINE FALCONER, MICHELLE SHANKAR, BETH D. MARSHALL, SARA B. JOHNSON, MEGAN M. TSCHUDY, ELLIOTT ATTISHA, JOSH SHARFSTEIN   +6 more
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Lucratividade e qualidade na distribuição de energia elétrica

Nova Economia, 2009
Privatization of electricity distribution in Brazil had, as one of its stated purposes, generation of sufficient revenue to guarantee service quality and full market coverage.
André Ghirardi, Milena Couto Rocha, Luiz Alberto Lima Teixeira   +2 more
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Chronic Disease and Disability in the United States: Trends, Inequities, and Imperatives for Policy Reform

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Position Universal, High‐Quality Education as a Foundational Public Health Strategy. Long‐term health and life expectancy in the United States are shaped more by educational attainment than by any other single factor. Disparities in access to early childhood, K‐12, and higher education perpetuate cycles of chronic disease, economic ...
ALI H. MOKDAD, LAURA DWYER‐LINDGREN, CHRISTOPHER J.L. MURRAY   +2 more
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care ...
Steven Roberts, Elsie Foeken, Karla Elliott, Riikka Prattes   +3 more
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Real Effects of Subjectivity in Measuring Fair Values

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the subjectivity in measuring fair values of assets without readily observable market prices affects investment efficiency and shareholder value. When fair values are objective measures of asset value, they facilitate efficient investment decisions that align with shareholder interests.
VERENA BRAUN, ROBERT F. GÖX, FELIX P. NIGGEMANN, ULRICH SCHÄFER   +3 more
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Firm Digital Transformation and Investment Efficiency: Evidence From China

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
In the digital economy, how to capitalize on digital transformation to improve the efficiency of long-term capital allocation is an important issue facing the current high-quality growth of China’s economy.
Maoguo Wu, Tianxiao Zhu
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Local corruption and corporate investment in an emerging market

Asia and the Global Economy
This paper examines how local corruption determines corporate investment in Vietnam where local corruption is more relevant to firms’ business activities than central corruption.
Thi Mai Nguyen, Quoc Trung Tran, Thi Thuy Trang Truong   +2 more
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Antimicrobial Use in Livestock: The Economic Cost of Action or Inaction

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper quantifies the economy‐wide consequences of two independent global stress‐tests in livestock production. The first assesses the effects of phasing out antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), and the second evaluates the long‐term impacts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) progression.
Alejandro Acosta, Wondmagegn Tirkaso, Marco Artavia, Francesco Nicolli, Thomas Chatzopoulos, Sergio René Araujo‐Enciso, Martin Cicowiez, Shaikh Eskander, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Junxia Song   +9 more
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