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Since the onset of the crisis, several studies have demonstrated that the positive effect of bank lending on economic growth is limited. After a certain level, financial deepening has no...

Behavioural insights make use of behavioural economics and psychology to analyse how humans behave when adopting economic decisions. The use of behavioural insights to improve policy-making...

We show how the occurrence of a civil war has heterogeneous effects on the level of GDP, using case-study, synthetic control and large-N panel-data approaches. We first...

When migrants move from one country to another, they carry a new range of skills and perspectives, which nurture technological innovation and stimulate economic growth. At the same...

Objectives: Although there is strong uptake of active or passive engagement with the cultural and creative activities as determinants of individual health and well-being, few population studies report any...

This paper investigates the short term effects of a large scale intervention, funded by the European Social Fund, which provides additional instruction time to selected classes of lower...

The country-specific conditions for work and family reconciliation (family policies, labour market structures and gender norms) are believed to influence tensions between paid employment and childbearing...

The analytical problems associated with different groups or “families” of mycotoxins have been known for some time and for many years, certain groups of mycotoxins are known to co-occur...

Prosopis spp. is a fast and aggressive invader threatening many arid and semi-arid areas globally. Thespecies is native to the American dry zones and was introduced in Somaliland for dune...

In this study we analyse the performance and timeliness of a widely used meteorological drought index, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), in anticipating deviations from mean seasonal vegetation productivity...