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Modern Economy (ME) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in all areas of international economics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of mod…
Yanfei Xiong, Yunxuan Luo
In order to explore whether the growth of green development level increases the debt financing cost of heavily polluting companies, this paper takes the green development level index, corporate social responsibility performance (CSR) and corporate debt financ…
Yatong Yang
This paper focuses on how the capital structure of enterprises affects their R&D intensity, introduces the asset-liability ratio to compare the capital structure of China and the United States, and introduces the tradable shares to compare the capital structu…
Fanjun Zhou
Personal Accident Insurance (PAI) has played an important role in the livelihood security of the residents in China, which is unlike the situation in most developed countries. But in recent years, it has been showing a significant reduction in the growth rate…
Albert-Enéas Gakusi, Barbara Scola, Zahra Khimdjee, Mohamed Coulibaly
This paper aims to present the results of the evaluation of the financial sector development operations of the African Development Bank during 2011-2018 to assess if the policy and strategy approved in 2014 made a difference. To this end, the paper analyzes t…
Nome Razaranaina
This study aims at giving more explanation to the efficiency of World Trade Organization’s dispute resolution process according to developing countries. Actually, in a multilateral trading system, many developing countries do not choose this procedure . After…
Muhammad Ghufran, Jawaria Ashraf, Muhammad Rizwan, Sumran Ali, Luigi Aldieri
It is an open secret that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2008 and the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the augmentation of indebtedness worldwide. The World Bank, in its study, Finding the tipping point: when sovereign debt turns bad , has sug…
Exode Rukundo, 1 1
The current economy of most developing countries is based on agriculture and its related operations that serve as the main entrance into the emerging industrial transformation. The lookout focuses on the integration of rural areas as drivers of a meaningful p…
Gloria Fiorani, Federica Bosco, Chiara Di Gerio
New social, environmental, and economic scenarios and the continuous evolution of the business world are directing society’s attention towards sustainability. In the current market context, there is a lot of talk about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), t…
Alan G. Phipps
One of two scales of residential preferences in a resident’s mind is their social and environmental utilities for homes’ attributes’ levels. The other is their willingness to pay for these attributes’ levels as it conforms with prices in the local real estate…
Moeti Damane
The objective of this paper is to construct a fiscal vulnerability indicator for Lesotho using annual fiscal and macroeconomic data from 1993 to 2017 and a Dynamic Debt Equation for calculating Fiscal Vulnerability (DDE-FV) that estimates a debt stabilising p…
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