Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in farming and agricultural production. Indeed, finance has been identified as one of the main causes of the so-called "global land rush". Agriculture and land represent safe investment opportunities and...

As of October 2008, the new amendments to IAS 39 & IFRS 7 were introduced by IASB as a direct reaction to the financial crisis. Since IFRS followers was given the option to reclassify certain financial assets, it partially changes the mark-to-market requirements, and leads to the fair accounting...

"Lack of or stagnant growth of output of any country is often caused by "shallow-finance";. A shallow financial depth (FD) means that the range of financial assets for that country is narrow. It is a scenario that goes far in explaining why most SSA countries have low or negative per capita...