A new paper in Oxford Open Economics, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that, while digital financial services are often proposed as a vehicle to lower inequality, the cost and infrastructure barriers to accessing ...
Economics & Business
Mar 1, 2022
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Your grade school math teacher probably told you that being good at math would be very important to your grownup self. But maybe the younger you didn't believe that at the time. A lot of research, though, has shown that your ...
Economics & Business
Jan 21, 2022
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If a new report from the Financial Wellness Lab of Canada at Western University is any indication, moving from a financially stressed situation to a more comfortable level in a relatively short period of time may not be an ...
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2022
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A hedge fund designed to pool money together for the public good could tackle a niche of problems that governments, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies all struggle with solving, according to Penn State researchers.
Social Sciences
Dec 10, 2021
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It's not that professors in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wyoming are involved in money laundering, but they are—sort of.
Economics & Business
Dec 10, 2021
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Despite much rhetoric and progress on paper, the UK remains a safe haven for dirty money, a great deal of which comes from Russia and Eurasia. Failure to tackle this thriving billion-dollar industry is "materially and ...
Economics & Business
Dec 9, 2021
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What is the first thought that comes to mind when you hear about a poaching incident on the news? Catching the poachers? Punishing them with imprisonment? Sadness over another animal or plant being taken from the wild and ...
Ecology
Dec 1, 2021
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When given cash with no strings attached, low- and middle-income parents increased their spending on their children, according to Washington State University research. The study, published in the journal Social Forces, also ...
Social Sciences
Oct 28, 2021
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Academics at the University of Surrey's Centre for Environment and Sustainability have undertaken research that proves Earth Observation satellite imagery can accurately assess the quality and quantity of some habitat types.
Ecology
Oct 12, 2021
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The 2021 Nobel Prize for physics is being announced Tuesday, an award that has in the past honored discoveries about fundamental forces of nature and cosmic phenomena.
General Physics
Oct 5, 2021
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