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How deep in debt? Measuring sovereign default risk
Sovereign credit risk is when a government is under threat of being unable to meet its loan obligations and going bankrupt. Traditional ways of measuring such risk are fundamentally flawed. […]
How to get out of the debt trap? Navigating the global financial turmoil
Global economies faced a precarious cycle of recovery pre-pandemic, marked by currency imbalances and interest rate cuts, resulting in a staggering 300 trillion USD global debt burden. Urgent reform of […]
Debt narratives to break free
For over-indebted individuals in Sweden, getting out of poverty can be tricky because of the country’s debt-reconstruction rules. A new study by Professors Pernilla Liedgren and Christian Kullberg at Mälardalen […]
What tangled webs we weave: Measuring federal public expenditure
The Social Accounting Model (SAM) is used in social and economic analyses to explain the transfers made between institutional sectors. It quantifies these exchanges to analyse the financial and economic […]
Predictive Analytics in the world of big data with application for targeting decisions
Predictive Analytics (PA) models are an increasingly important method for predicting future events in big data applications based on past observations for which the response values are known. One of […]
Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink: Political stagnation and water fragility in South Africa’s Free State
After 30 years of post-Apartheid single-party rule, corruption and ineffective governance are widespread in South Africa. In the Free State Province, the situation with respect to water and sanitation provision […]
Science, AI, and securing a sustainable future
Around 95% of the world’s population agree with the concept of sustainable development goals (SDGs) as a way of building a sustainable future in the face of the climate crisis. […]
The Money View: An interview with Professor Perry Mehrling
Since 2018, Perry Mehrling has been Professor of International Political Economy at Boston University. Prior to this, he served for three decades as Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia […]
The past that we know and the past that was: Exploring Constructed Past Theory
How do we come to know the past? Constructed Past Theory (CPT) claims that the past, as we understand it, is not what existed or happened but is the product […]
The fiscal management of foreign aid in sub-Saharan Africa
Foreign aid is managed by governments whose countries are in need. Their decisions on how that money is managed greatly affect countries’ subsequent economic performance. Loujaina Abdelwahed, Assistant Professor in […]