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The 'vulnerability paradox': how institutional legacies shaped Colombia's response to Venezuelan displacement. [PDF]

Disasters
Fernández-Rodríguez N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Robust Bernoulli Mixture Models for Credit Portfolio Risk

Mathematical Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents comparison results and establishes risk bounds for credit portfolios within classes of Bernoulli mixture models, assuming conditionally independent defaults that are stochastically increasing in a common risk factor. We provide simple and interpretable conditions on conditional default probabilities that imply a comparison ...
Jonathan Ansari, Eva Lütkebohmert
wiley   +1 more source

High awareness, inadequate practices: a cross-sectional KAP study on Chagas disease in an endemic Venezuelan community. [PDF]

Trop Med Health
Escalante-Pérez IA, Carrión-Nessi FS, Erimee-Vieira GJ, de Marchis-Vento MJ, Omaña-Ávila ÓD, Dubuc-Ponte MA, Castro-Betancourt DI, Sande-Mujica VC, Contreras-Rengifo JM, Molina-Mendoza RA, Loreto-Rodrigues AM, Gomes-González JC, Haddad-Soto R, Mendoza-Millán DL, de Noya BA, Forero-Peña DA.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Anticipatory, Chronic, and Imminent: A Typology of Insecurities Underlying Protracted Conflict Displacement and Its Implications

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Protracted armed conflicts increasingly drive long‐term displacement, yet demographic frameworks often treat forced migration from conflict settings as a response to acute, singular events. This study introduces a typology of displacement grounded in the tempo and form of conflict‐related insecurities—anticipatory, chronic, and imminent—and ...
Stephanie M. Koning, Goleen Samari, Abigail Weitzman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Potential for a Malaria Outbreak in Trinidad and Tobago Due to Migrant Populations From Guyana and Venezuela for the Period 2009-2019. [PDF]

Cureus
Narinesingh-Motie R, Ivey M, Edwards J, Edwards RJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does the Threat of Killing Gays Deter Foreign Aid: The Case of Uganda's 2014 Anti‐Homosexuality Act

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much attention has been drawn on Uganda in recent years due to the strengthening of its anti‐LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric. Our study explores the aid‐deterring effect of anti‐LGBTQ legislation in an experimental setting using the Synthetic Control Method.
Elissaios Papyrakis, Luca Tasciotti
wiley   +1 more source

Phylum Rotifera in Peru: a review of studies on biodiversity and annotated checklist of taxa. [PDF]

Zookeys
Rojas-Baez E, Samanez I, Soto LM, Pardo MJ, Karpowicz M, Michaloudi E, Stamou G, de Los Ríos-Escalante PR, López C.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We report on the wellbeing of the young in twenty‐eight countries located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia including fifteen post‐Soviet countries. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people, which characterizes Western Europe and English‐speaking advanced economies. The mental health of the
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
wiley   +1 more source

Photobiomodulation as an adjuvant for pain relief and healing pre-orthodontic mandibular third molar surgery: double-blinded randomized clinical trial. [PDF]

Saudi Dent J
Rujano-Salinas J, Pérez A, Ramirez A, Moreno-Garces, Bernotti A, Machado D, Luca DN, Sanchez-Ramirez C.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Simple Model of Geopolitical Risk and Sanctions

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geopolitical risk (GPR) shocks that trigger the imposition of sanctions tend to lower output and raise inflation in the sanctioned country. We develop a three‐equation small open economy New Keynesian model where GPR shocks are modeled as negative productivity shocks and sanctions manifest as import tariffs in response to GPR increases.
Vivien Lewis, Sirikorn Puangjit
wiley   +1 more source