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Enabling African loots: tracking the laundering of Nigerian kleptocrats’ ill-gotten gains in western financial centres
This paper aims to provide evidence and analysis of the conveyor belt that allows Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) to rehabilitate their money in...
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Global corporate structure of Chinese state-owned financial institutions through Hong Kong
This article applies a new investigative technique called ‘equity map**’ to the corporate structure of two big Chinese state-owned banks, Bank of...
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Canada and Global Financial Governance in a Troubled Global Order
Global finance plays a key role in our current global order, as it has in previous orders. Global finance was a leading edge of globalization in the...
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International burden-sharing during a financial crisis: We will all go together when we go
During the financial crisis of 2008–2010, governments have had varying success in containing the fiscal costs of stabilizing their financial sectors....
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Vulnerabilisation of Refugees: Covid-19—Related Experiences from Accommodation Centres in Germany
Inadequate living conditions in collective accommodation centres for refugees and asylum seekers—such as issues of overcrowding, privacy, or...
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BRICS, Structural Power and the BRICS Bank as a Potentially Progressive Instrument for a Passive Revolution
The story of BRICS and its promise is a story of global power relations and the process through which it aims to achieve equity and improved fairness...
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Regulatory Mayhem in Offshore Finance: What the Panama Papers Reveal
This chapter discusses the worrying increase in offshore financial flows resulting in tax evasion in the global economy. We demonstrate that offshore...
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Heading in the direction of bifurcated networks: Hong Kong's evolution amidst the global submarine cable system
The full understanding of the importance of submarine cables as part of the global network infrastructure in the digital economy era, along with...
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Financial (De)Globalization and Financial Market (Dis)Integration
The chapter provides the background to the study and explores the lessons from two waves of financial globalization, the transition from the gold...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Remains of Stone Age settlements of hunters and fishermen suggest that the first inhabitants crossed from the low countries of Continental Europe on...
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The European Union and India in Global Financial Governance
The Asian financial crisis (1997–1998) and the global financial meltdown (2007–2009) revealed serious deficiencies in global financial governance....
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Bahrain
The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated economic problems of Bahrain generated by depleting petroleum revenues, and the recovery remains marred in...
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Science and Environment at the Central Stage
The twenty-first century changed the facet of the Brazilian Antarctic programme. The active involvement of the Ministry of Environment, the support...
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The Nigerian Federal System on the Historical Scale
This chapter centres on the operations and challenges of the Nigerian federal system from a historical perspective. The conglomeration of unwilling...
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Nauru
Nauru was originally settled by Melanesians and Polynesians. Tradition holds that among the earliest settlers were castaways from another island,...
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Safe havens for energy democracy? Analysing the low-carbon transitions of Danish energy islands
Denmark has long been known as a pioneer in renewable energy technology development. Apart from technological leadership, Denmark has also been the...
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Brexit and Financial (Dis)Integration: Between Cakeism, Project Fear, and Reality
The chapter starts with an introduction to the Brexit challenge for European financial integration, before exploring as a background the evolution of...
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BRI—Sustainable, Inclusive Growth, and Financial Sources
At China’s 19th National Congress of China Communist Party in October 2017, the Belt and Road Initiative was included in the Party’s Constitution....
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The China-Singapore Chongqing Connectivity Project: A Cornerstone for Bilateral Relations
As part of a country’sChongqing Connectivity Project overall diplomatic strategy, (Hocking, Localizing Foreign Policy: Non-Central Governments and...
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The Impact of Tech Services Exports from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia on Global Prosperity
Economic consequences for the West caused by the war in Ukraine have been broadly analysed and discussed. However, most of the focus has been on the...
