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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"market infrastructure"”.
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A critical assessment of the South African bond market
… of its local‐currency, so‐called domestic, bond market. Whilst South Africa had the deepest financial market in Sub‐Saharan Africa it also had one of the shallowest domestic bond markets, until 2009. This changed with the rapid bond issuances by the national government as a means to fund its …
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An analysis of Russian equity capital markets
This paper begins with the assumption that stock market development has a positive and causal relationship with long run economic growth. It thus takes the view that developing the equity market is an important policy objective for the Russian government. Through a series of interviews, data …
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Improving domestic markets for the wood products of reforestation programs: a case study of eucalyptus in northwestern Senegal
… the use of eucalyptus in the domestic sawn wood markets of Senegal. It is hoped that with increased economic incentives the local population will become more inclined to plant trees. It is therefore important to identify the market opportunities for the products of reforestation. In this research …
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Institutions in rural development : the case of rural banks in Sierra Leone
… seen as the appropriate instrument to achieve market-oriented production. But these schemes failed due mainly to concessionary interest rates, high default, lack of savings mobilisation, mismanagement and poor economic policies. In March, 1985, a rural banking scheme was launched to replace …
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Contracts, not concrete : de-risking private finance of sustainable infrastructure in emerging markets
Matching long-term infrastructure demands in emerging markets with long-dated capital supply - from pension funds, insurers or sovereign wealth funds - has never been so high on the agenda of governments, climate funds and multilateral development banks. It has been argued that with the right …
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ESSAYS ON FINANCIAL MARKETS, NETWORKS, AND TECHNOLOGIES
Global financial markets have been dramatically changing over the last decade. More research is needed to understand the fundamental forces behind this market evolution, and how these forces have reshaped the financial market infrastructure. My dissertation investigates three significant issues at …
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CONSTRUCTING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH DATA: THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL PRODUCTION OF MARKETING INSIGHTS
… explores the socio-technical construction of marketing insights in the age of Artificial Intelligence by focusing on sustainability, a theme increasingly central to consumption practices and discourses. The theoretical background of this work lies at the intersection of sociology, market …
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Understanding How Impact Investing Can Transform Canada’s Post-Secondary Sector: An Intermediary Typology
… and 4) the need for social impact investing market infrastructure in the higher education sector. With this contextual frame, findings culminate in an intermediary typology of ideal types being the Leveraged Traditionalist, Informed Specialist and Relational Collaborator. This dissertation …
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The effects of urbanisation on non-timber forest product dependencies : a case study of three settlements in the Chobe district of northern Botswana
… relating to government harvest permits and market data. Households in all three areas used NTFPs despite the different rural and urban contexts in which they exist. Kasane and Kazungula showed a less diverse range of resource use, with fuelwood and wild foods the most commonly used resources …
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Intermediated securities holding infrastructure an avant - garde system jeopardised by the usual suspects
… phenomena at the heart of the financial markets and the policymaking process i.e. (i) the policymaker’s role on the critical features of the intermediated holding infrastructure that exacerbate securities shortfall; and (ii) the purposeless effect of policymaking. The main aims of this …
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Security market manipulations and the assurance of market integrity
… studies conducted for the relationship between market integrity and market efficiency and the driving forces behind the cross-sectional variations in market quality. Second, a better understanding the relationships among market integrity, market efficiency and other mechanism design factors for …
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Regulation of complex adaptive digital systems: optimizing competition and consumer welfare outcomes in Nigeria's converging telecommunications market
… pro-competition regulatory challenges of digital markets focus more on mature competitive markets in the Global North. There is a paucity of empirical studies on the predominantly pre-paid mobile markets of the South — where competition laws and institutional arrangements that facilitate market …
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The architecture of the stock market accessibility and operational framework: what can an emerging market economy learn from the ‘international standards’ and the ‘best practice’ models of the US and UK?
… initial;">Since the development of global stock markets has become standardised and increasingly linked to the philosophy of free markets, the top international private providers of equity indices (e.g. FTSE Russell, MSCI and S&P) have been working with market authorities to regularly determine …