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"The closely interlinked food, fuel and financial crises pose a significant new challenge to the global effort to reduce poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export restrictions and panic purchases turned a tightened...
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South Africa is a developing country faced with diverse challenges like high unemployment, poverty, inequality and low economic growth. In an attempt to address these issues, government can embark on borrowing and incur public debt. Countries that run large persistent public debt signal negative...
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This paper investigates the relation between corporate political connections and government investment. We study various forms of political influence, ranging from passive connections between firms and politicians, such as those based on politicians' voting districts, to active forms, such as...
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Purpose – This study aims to investigate the recent corporate governance (CG) developments in Greece. The recent … economic crisis of Greece has caused very high mobility, both at a state level by imposing a new Greek regulation in capital … market and at a level of associations in Greece by recommending new voluntary codes on CG. Both the new economic conditions …
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