We examine the effectiveness of China's IFRS adoption from the perspective of an important set of financial report users, foreign institutional investors. We find that foreign institutional investment does not increase after China's IFRS adoption, and some evidence that it actually declines,...

In emerging markets, the deviation between the ultimate controlling shareholders' voting rights and their cash flow rights (hereafter 'DVC') in the listed firms is quite prevalent. DVC could be introduced due to the ultimate controlling shareholders' opportunistic incentives, as well as by their...

Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries...