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Green Finance As A Tool To Support The Transition To A Sustainable Economy In Developing Countries
Full text linkGreen finance is a financial service and product which is designed specifically to fund green projects and investments impacting positively on the environment including renewable energy projects, sustainable transportation, and efficient water and waste management, and green buildings. It is a qualitative change in the classic financial thought, as it incorporates the aspects of environmental concerns environmental and social considerations are included in the investment decision-making standards. The developing countries are most challenged, they bear the brunt of the climate changes even though they have the least contribution to the historical emissions and they have a huge funding gap estimated at over one trillion dollars per annum to implement the climate adaptation and mitigation projects and the actual flow of funding does not exceed with $100 billion per annum and international green finance is one of the strategic tools to close this gap and finance the shift of a sustainable economy balancing economic growth, social justice, and the preservation of the natural resources that will serve future generations. A complex web of international sources of green finance, multilateral sources, including IMF green Climate Fund, World Bank Group, regional development banks, including African and Asian Development Banks, specialized funds and bilateral financing by the developed countries is of great benefit to developing countries as it provides a way of great economic diversification, green employment, and transfer of clean technologies, but the difficulties of the developing countries lie in the fact that the structure is not well developed to fully utilize it, the most significant of which are weaknesses in the institutional and legislative frameworks, limited depth of domestic financial markets, technical capabilities, and high Thus, enabling the role of green finance will entail the incorporation of facilitating economic policies constructing the requisite regulatory frameworks, localization of the financial market, and empowering of the partnerships between governments and the business sector is needed to secure the intended transformation into more sustainable and sustainable economies amidst global climatic predicaments
Quantitative Easing and Economic Stimulus Policies: Potential Benefiting from Them in Iraq
Full text linkQuantitative easing is an unconventional monetary policy used by some central banks to stimulate the local economy. The central bank prints a predetermined amount of money that will be used to purchase government bonds or financial assets to increase liquidity, this increases the excess reserves of the banking system, increases the prices of the financial assets that were purchased, and reduces their size. Banks are also forced to lower the interest rate, which leads to increased borrowing in the country and thus stimulates the economy. This policy is usually used when normal methods of controlling the money supply fail, that is, when the bank interest rate, discount rate, and interbank interest rate are at or near zero. Through its mandate, the Central Bank of Iraq seeks to support the development process and stimulate economic growth in Iraq by supporting the liquidity of specialized banks with financial initiatives that enable them to provide industrial, agricultural, and housing loans to support economic activity and create job opportunities. It also provides financial initiatives to private commercial banks to finance small and medium-sized enterprises, the bank has taken several steps and provided facilities, including banking facilities through rescheduling bank loans to the private sector, particularly those owed by small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as extending the repayment period for existing and future loans , Continuing to support real activities through the lending policy adopted by the Central Bank and in cooperation with banks operating in Iraq to drive development
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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