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Fintech for good: Governance mechanisms for sustainable development
Pashang, Sep; Weber, Olaf - 2021
Financial technology (fintech) for good can help to achieve sustainable development through environmental, social and governance investing, and through financial inclusion initiatives to address the needs of underbanked and unbanked individuals. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated...
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European Small Business Finance Outlook 2022
Kraemer-Eis, Helmut; Botsari, Antonia; Gvetadze, Salome; … - 2022
This working paper provides an overview of the main markets relevant to the EIF, thereby documenting the impact of the current inflationary environment, the war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the pandemic on the SME financing environment. The publication first discusses the general market...
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Rentenreformen - die internationale Perspektive
Queisser, Monika - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) Sonderheft, pp. 28-33
This article examines recent pension reforms in OECD countries. All countries are facing the challenge of designing both financially and socially sustainable pension policies in a context of weak economic growth, low financial returns and ageing populations. In some cases, countries have been...
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Resilienz von regionalen und globalen Wertschöpfungsketten der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft
Bahrs, Enno (contributor); Bieling, Claudia (contributor);  … - 2023
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Mainstreaming the adaptations and reducing the vulnerability of the poor due to climate change
Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - 2011
the world are wideranging and include development of technology, management, infrastructure, livestock, groundwater, and …
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Financial inclusion and financial stability: Current policy issues
Hannig, Alfred; Jansen, Stefan - 2010
The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters' and national regulators' response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter...
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Quantifying sustainability: A new approach and world ranking
Carraro, Carlo; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2012
evolution of all indicators over time throughout the world, and (ii) the aggregation methodology to reconcile them in one … current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world …
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Crisis and sustainable business in Central and Eastern Europe: Haniel-Seminar discussion paper
Kovalev, Mikhail M.; Lomagin, Nikita A.; Sutyrin, Sergei F. - 2009
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Fiscal policy responsiveness, persistence and discretion
Afonso, António; Agnello, Luca; Furceri, Davide - 2008
We decompose fiscal policy in three components: i) responsiveness, ii) persistence and iii) discretion. Using a sample of 132 countries, our results point out that fiscal policy tends to be more persistent than to respond to output conditions. We also found that while the effect of cross-country...
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The impact of extreme weather events on budget balances and implications for fiscal policy
Lis, Eliza M.; Nickel, Christiane - 2009
This paper explores implications of climate change for fiscal policy by assessing the impact of large scale extreme weather events on changes in public budgets. We apply alternative measures for large scale extreme weather events and conclude that the budgetary impact of such events ranges...
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