Productive Finance for the Belt and Road Initiative: Reexamining China’s Debt Sustainability Framework
China committed over $1.3 trillion in development finance to the Global South between 2000 and 2021.
Global Reports & Market Data (2026)
442 documents
The Siege Curve: How Disruptive Technologies Are Really Adopted
Gartner forecast generative AI spending of $644 billion for 2025, even as OpenAI reported 800 million weekly ChatGPT users in October 2025.
Financial Investors and For-Profit Providers as New Players in Global Healthcare: The Politics and Practices of Health System Financialisation
An international workshop was organized in May 2025 to evaluate the impact of for-profit providers and financial investors in healthcare across national borders.
Security and Privacy in Digital Payments: Blockchain, PIX, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
The systematic review synthesises 50 highly relevant studies selected from a total pool of 615 candidate records published between 2014 and 2025.
Frontier Markets, Marginal Flows: Vietnamese Private Outward Investment in Africa and South Asia, 2015–2025
By the end of 2025, Vietnamese investors held 1,991 valid overseas investment projects across 85 countries and territories, with cumulative registered capital exceeding US$23.7 billion.
Corridors of Integrity: India-UAE Financial Vigilance, FATF Readiness, and Regional Economic Security
In fiscal year 2024-25, bilateral merchandise trade between India and the UAE reached USD 100.06 billion, representing a 19.6 per cent increase.
Minority Shareholder Protection under Zimbabwe’s Companies and Other Business Entities Act (2019)
Zimbabwe's Companies and Other Business Entities Act [Chapter 24:31] (2019) (COBE) provides a framework balancing majority rule with minority investor safeguards.
AgriVerse: An AI-Driven Agri-FinTech Decision Intelligence Platform
Smallholders cultivating less than 2 hectares make up the majority of the rural agricultural workforce in India.
Efficiency without Compulsion: Economic Trade-offs in the Transition to a Cashless Society
The document establishes a distinction between voluntary payment digitalisation and forced cashlessness, evaluating welfare trade-offs across financial inclusion, privacy, and system resilience.
Relationship Between Risk Perception, Trust, and Adoption of Cryptocurrency-Based Payment Systems in Africa
The study conducts a structured review of literature spanning from 2018 to 2025 to synthesize how behavioral and contextual factors influence cryptocurrency payment adoption in African economies.
Mining Tech Startup Landscape 2026
Funding concentration is high, with five startups holding 44% ($2.8B) of total disclosed capital, while US startups hold 71% of the global total.
Implementation of Machine Learning for Waqif Honesty Detection in Blockchain-Based Digital Waqf Systems
The study integrated the Ethereum Fraud Detection Dataset containing 9,841 transactions and 51 attributes with digital waqf system behavioral data.
Forecasting Bank Credit to Small Business with Short Panels: Partial Pooling Versus Country-Specific Trends, With An Application to Uzbekistan
The study evaluates rolling-origin forecasts across 21 economies using Asian Development Bank MSME loan-stock data for 2019–2024.
Who Gains from Digital Finance? Micro-Evidence on Account Ownership in Uzbekistan and Central Asia, 2021–2024
Adult account ownership in Uzbekistan rose from 44.1% in 2021 to 59.7% in 2024.
Price Adjustment When Updating Requires Execution: Evidence from Automated Market Makers
The study draws on a high-frequency analytic panel of 2.52 million block-level observations across two matched 5 bp ETH–USDC pools on Ethereum and Base.
Stablecoin Depegging, Financial Intermediary Balance Sheet Constraints, and Liquidity in the U.S. Traditional Money Market
By end-2025, the global stablecoin market grew from approximately $25 billion in 2020 to over $300 billion.
Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Financial and Administrative Risks: An Applied Study at the International Development Bank for Investment and Finance (2015–2024)
The study evaluates the impact of deploying artificial intelligence techniques to predict financial and administrative risks at the International Development Bank for Investment and Finance over the period 2015–2024.
Regulatory Compliance and Financial Regulation Challenges in Cross-Border Financial Data Flows Under AI Governance
The conceptual study evaluates regulatory compliance and financial regulation issues in cross-border financial data flows, published in Volume 10, Number 10 of the journal.
When Is a Hack a Defense? Custodial Liability, Issuer Freezes and the Public Loss after the Binance Theft of 29 October 2026
On 29 October 2026, about $6.36 billion was taken from Binance's hot wallets across ten blockchains.
Technology, Regulation, and the Divergent Trajectories of Retail and Cross-Border Central Bank Digital Currency
A Scopus bibliometric search conducted on 8 October 2026 retrieved 1,418 records, from which 1,045 were retained for critical analysis.
Powering Development? Chinese Energy Investment, Artificial Intelligence, and Local Electrification in Africa
In 2023, roughly 666 million people lived without access to electricity, with 85 percent of them located in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Blockchain and ESG Transparency: The Mediating Role of Trust and the Moderating Role of Regulatory Support
The study evaluates how blockchain adoption impacts ESG transparency using a simulated sample of 400 cases.
Federal Reserve Monetary Policy Changes and Short-Term Bitcoin Returns: An Event Study Analysis of FOMC Rate Actions
The empirical analysis examines 26 FOMC rate-change announcements from 2017 through 2024, comprising 18 rate hikes and 8 rate cuts.
Synergy of Bank Indonesia, the Financial Services Authority, and the National Sharia Board in Building Indonesia's Islamic Financial System
Bank Indonesia maintains monetary and macroprudential stability under Law No. 23 of 1999 juncto Law No. 6 of 2009.
Does Institutional Quality Condition the Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment to Economic Growth in the ECCAS?
Net foreign direct investment flows to the ECCAS region declined to approximately -$0.1 billion in 2022, down from around $2 billion in 2017.
Exchange Warnings and Crypto Prices: Evidence from Monitoring Tags
Binance published 167 monitoring tags across 26 announcements between July 2023 and October 2026, of which 155 were first-time tags.
Inflation, Exchange Rate Movements and Cryptocurrency Returns in Nigeria: Evidence from a Structural VAR Model
The paper investigates the dynamic relationships between headline inflation, official naira/US-dollar exchange rate, and returns of five cryptocurrencies using a seven-variable structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model.
Impact of HRM Systems on Whistleblowing in Pakistan's Banking Sector: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety and the Moderating Role of Power Distance
The quantitative study analyzed survey data from commercial bank employees in Pakistan, achieving an 82% response rate.
Simulated Losses, Exchange-App Activity, and Bitcoin Buy-and-Hold: A Methodological Re-Examination of BIS Working Paper No. 1049
BIS Working Paper No. 1049 assembled a Sensor Tower panel of retail crypto-exchange app downloads and daily active users (DAUs) covering 95 countries from August 2015 to June 2022.
Debt maturity and government spending multipliers
Empirical analysis of post-war US data demonstrates that government spending shocks financed with short-term debt yield significantly higher output multipliers than those financed with long-term debt, typically exceeding unity under short-term financing.