Beyond mechanisms for public domain reporting and oversight by mandated national audit and parliamentary bodies, ongoing debates also need to address the risk of corruption in pandemic financing, whether in the form of bribes, embezzlement, fraudulent contracts, inflated pricing, insider trading or diver...
The first are legal and institutional influencing activities, which are the dominant form of rent-seeking in advanced economies and the least developed form in poor economies. This is because business chambers and labour unions represent a small part of the population in poor countries. Moreover, ...
At the same time, an increasing number of countries are experiencing public debt distress (UNCTAD Citation2023). All the above-mentioned factors raise the question of governments acting as strategic investors, and the various policy tools and coordination across policy domains (e.g. fiscal and ...
The United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) Review of Maritime Transport (2015), p.39 Cooperative agreements between shipping lines in the form of alliances to improve supply chain cost performance is a fundamental issue present in the industry. Excess vessel capacity, downward pre...
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Commodity price index (Source: Author’s calculation based on UNCTAD 2012) Full size image Finally, taking into account the exchange rate stability as one of the key determinant of current account imbalance. The index value calculates yearly standard deviation of monthly exchange rate between home ...
the virus resides in the upper respiratory tract leading to an innate immune response that is mild and requires conservative symptomatic therapy. The remaining 20% of cases experience a much severe form of the disease; the virus diffusely invades and destroys lung alveolar cells, leading to a sy...
Our assessment of Landry´s work is far from uncritical, which on the other hand reflects many of the preconceptions and contradictions of its epoch in the form of disproportionate optimism; focusing on the opportunities rather than on the problems; a vague hierarchy between heterogeneous objective...
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