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There is significant potential in young talent for enhancing the credibility of the scientific assessments such as the IPCC’s by contributing to quality assurance and quality control. In this essay, we reflect on an experiment that was done by the Dutch government as part of its government...
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Disasters such as floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts can have enormous implications for health, the environment and economic development. In this article, we address the question of how climate change might have influenced the impact of weather-related disasters. This relation is not...
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Na de crisis in Azië zoekt men allerlei manieren om het flitskapitaal aan banden te leggen. De achterliggende gedachte is dat financiële crises veroorzaakt worden door speculanten à la George Soros en het kuddegedrag van beleggers. Onze mening is dat de crisis in Zuidoost-Azië net als de...
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This thoroughly updated and revised second edition analyses the ideas behind Islamic finance, the forms Islamic finance has taken in practice and the tension between the two that may occasionally arise. Along with an expanded section on the history of the ban on interest, this second edition...
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The financial crisis of Mexico in 1982 and 1995 had a very different impact on the real sector. The first crisis led to a decade of stagnation while the second was resolved fairly rapidly. Although both crises were caused by a discontinuation and reversal of capital inflows, this paper argues...
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