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Financial inclusion of women is of immense importance in achieving gender equality as well as economic independence. As of 2017, 55% women still did not use their bank accounts

China’s high household savings rate remains a puzzle, with potential explanations including demographic, policy, and financial causes. This column investigates China’s savings rate using individual income and spending transactions linked to demographic characteristics and financial information on loan applications and credit availability. The authors match bank customers to

Cutting Putin’s Energy Rent: ‘Smart Sanctioning’ Russian Oil and Gas CID Faculty Working Paper No. 412 Ricardo Hausmann, Agata Łoskot-Strachota, Axel Ockenfels, Ulrich Schetter, Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram Wolff, Georg Zachmann April 2022 Abstract:

Earlier this year, we discussed Amgen's petition for Supreme Court review of the Federal Circuit's affirmance invalidating several antibody patent claims based on a lack of enablement for genus claims.

Living through the COVID-19 crisis affected women and men differently. This column presents representative survey evidence from five European countries that women reduced their pre-pandemic consumption substantially more than men. Perceptions of infection risk and precautionary saving motives are only a partial explanation. Instead, men report realising that they had not

Innovation has been valued throughout the history of the United States. In fact, it was so important that Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution gave Congress the power “To promote...

School disruptions due to war, pandemics, or natural disasters can have persistent negative effects on learning outcomes. This column estimates the learning losses due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. From a position of relative parity with its neighbours pre-pandemic, learning outcomes in Ukraine are now estimated to be below the lowest-performing countries in Europe.

For me, any meaningful restructuring of Nigeria has to start with a BIG CAUTION.

It has been said time and time again: what all mothers want is for their children to grow up healthy, strong and smart. To achieve these, moms have long believed that apart from their kids’ physical well-being,  IQ  is the one facet that needs to be harnessed as it is…

In his recent Budget speech, Treasury CS Ukur Yatani proposed yet another Sh18.5 billion for the development of SGR “to expand railway transport to the rest of the country.”