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The nexus of external debt, private investment and financial development: Evidence from selected SACU countries

Muyambiri, Brian; Mabejane, John-Baptiste - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 21 (2023) 1, pp. 25-40

Lesotho, Namibia and Eswatini from 1980-2020 using a multivariate Granger-causality model. The study considers trade, savings … investment in Lesotho, Namibia and Eswatini from 1980-2020 is country-dependent. For Eswatini, both investment and financial …, therefore, concludes that for Eswatini, immense efforts in promoting investment and financial development chiefly stimulate …

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Labour conditions in regional versus global value chains: Insights from apparel firms in Lesotho and Eswatini

Pasquali, Giovanni - 2021

regional value chains (RVCs), respectively. We draw on crosssection survey data from 135 workers in 31 firms across Eswatini …

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Pursuing the Phillips curve in an African monarchy: A Swazi case study

Phiri, Andrew - In: Contemporary Economics 16 (2022) 4, pp. 460-478

The purpose of this study is to examine whether we can identify a Phillips curve fit for the Kingdom of Eswatini as a …

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Pension Funds and Financial Stability: The Case of the UK Gilt Crisis

Gudjonsson, Jon; Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 3, pp. 155-159

While macroprudential policy has mostly focused on the role of banks, we argue that pension funds are also important for financial stability. Drawing on previous research on pension funds, we explain how their actions can have a vital impact on other financial institutions as well as on...

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Towards a macroprudential surveillance and remedial policy formulation system for monitoring financial crisis

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2009

Several developing economies witnessed a large number of systemic financial and currency crises since the 1980s which resulted in severe economic, social, and political problems. The devastating impact of the 1982 and 1994-95 Mexican crises, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 1998 Russian...

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Does financial activity cause economic growth?

Graff, Michael; Karmann, Alexander - 2001

To clarify the causal links between financial activity and economic growth, three theoretical models are analyzed and a structural equation path models is estimated. In the modeling part, poverty traps result from large fixed costs or high proportions of real investment to run a financial...

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Integrated Financial Supervision: an Institutional Perspective for the Philippines

Milo, Melanie S. - 2007

This paper looks at the issue of reforming financial regulatory structures from the New Institutional Economics perspective. In particular, it examines how the broader institutional environment prevailing in developing countries like the Philippines may affect the institutional arrangements for...

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Decentralising the public sector: Transition and the Recent Reforms in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the Czech Republic

Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; do Carmo Oliveira, João - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 1, pp. 26-29

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Finance for Renewable Energy: An Empirical Analysis of Developing and Transition Economies

Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2009

This paper examines the role of the financial sector in renewable energy (RE) development. Although RE can bring socio-economic and environ- mental benefits, its implementation faces a number of obstacles, especially in non-OECD countries. One of these obstacles is financing: underdevel- oped...

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Krise nicht genutzt: Führungspositionen großer Finanzunternehmen weiter fest in Männerhand

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 3, pp. 12-18

Trotz Fusionen und Finanzkrise hat sich im Finanzsektor wenig geändert: Der Frauenanteil in den Spitzengremien der … Finanzsektor weit mehr als die Hälfte der Beschäftigten Frauen sind, stellen sie nur 2,9 Prozent der Vorstandsmitglieder in den …

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