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Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) have spread around the globe in the past five years. At a time of pressure on public budgets following the economic crisis, a financing mechanism for social policies that promises to mitigate the public sector risk, increase effectiveness and pay for services now while...
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Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are spreading around the world and have been gathering increasingly the attention of governments and public authorities, investors, social services providers, researchers, and evaluators among others over the last years. At the same time, they have triggered debates...
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bond markets. As it is drafted by the OECD debt managers themselves, it provides a unique overview of the best practices on …
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Sovereign Borrowing Outlook, previously a separate OECD publication, and introduces new chapters on corporate bond markets and … corporate bond market dynamics, build-up of risks and vulnerabilities and the impact of a changing macrofinancial landscape …. Chapter 3 looks at trends in global sustainable bond markets and discusses policy considerations such as the sustainability …
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, assuming that age-specific mortality levels remain constant. However, the actual age-specific death rate of any particular …
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This Test Guideline describes an assay that assesses early life-stage effects and potential adverse consequences of putative endocrine disrupting chemicals (e.g. oestrogens, androgens and steroidogenesis inhibitors) on fish sexual development. In the test, fish are exposed, from newly fertilized...
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This Test Guideline is designed to assess the toxicity of substances to freshwater aquatic plants of the genus Lemna (duckweed). Exponentially growing plant cultures of the genus Lemna (Lemna gibba and Lemna minor usually) are allowed to grow as monocultures in, at least, five concentrations of...
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This Test Guideline describes the procedure for the electronic determination of pH of an undiluted aqueous solution or dispersion, the pH of a dilution of a solution or dispersion in water, or the pH of a chemical diluted to end-use concentration. It also describes procedures to determine acid...
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