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Food and nutrition insecurity are becoming increasingly concentrated in conflict-affected countries, affecting millions of people. Policies and interventions that build resilience to these shocks have the power to not only limit the breadth and depth of conflict and violence around the world,...
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People in developing countries—particularly the agricultural poor—face a host of risks to their lives and livelihoods, including those stemming from globalization, climate change, and weather shocks. These experiences highlight the importance of social protection, which can have a...
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The year 2014 saw mixed results for food and nutrition security: some countries made headway on policies to cut hunger, while in other countries conflict and health crises took a heavy human toll. Much of the year’s discourse focused on potential priorities for the future global development...
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Appetite for fish continues to expand around the globe, despite the stagnant levels of capture fish production. What is the role that aquaculture can play in supplying the world with adequate animal protein? What lessons can be drawn from dynamic Asian aquaculture producers that might guide...
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This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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This study examines the factors that lead to issuing negative opinions on semiannual reports while issuing positive opinions in annual reports from the perspective of auditor-client relationships in listed companies in Taiwan. The empirical results show that the importance of the client is...
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The purpose of this paper is to serve as a guide for students’ use of actual data for risk and return calculations …. The study of stock return risk has been of interest to investors and academics for several decades. Early discussion of … higher risk investments. The general concept is to evaluate return risk either on a stand-alone basis (commonly using …
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We examine the impact of board diversity on both the corporate value and equity risk of British companies since the … financial crisis. We find that the inclusion of overseas directors on boards improves market value and reduces equity risk. When … no effect on risk. These findings do not change when we allow for the presence of board members who are qualified …
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investors carry power market risks, in particular the power price risk. At the same time however, under the current financial … endanger further deployment and the achievement of renewable targets with it. Against this background we take a risk … perspective to assess the past and upcoming EEG reforms, with the aim of developing a proposal to gradually shift risk towards RE …
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Remarks by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, at The Institute of International Finance Spring Membership Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 7, 2012.
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