One challenge for global equity managers is keeping track of correlations (or covariances) between the sources of risk in their portfolios. For instance, in the Barra Global Equity Model (GEM2) there are 153 factors, including country, currency, style, and industry factors that we have identified as being important. This leads to 11,628 unique correlations/covariances of which to keep track bet...

Rural communities in the Southern US are shaped by a legacy of racial oppression carried out through educational systems, tandem with contemporary policies that perpetuate marginalization minoritized students. In this qualitative, revelatory case study, we examine experiences rural, southern school leaders who tasked ensuring equity. Using critical place-based leadership and bonding/bridging th...

Educational institutions are considered a keystone for the establishment of a meritocratic society. They supposedly serve two functions: an educational function that promotes learning for all, and a selection function that sorts individuals into different programs, and ultimately social positions, based on individual merit. We study how the function of selection relates to support for assessmen...

CONTEXT Children from low-income and minority families are often behind higher-income and majority children in language, cognitive, and social development even before they enter school. Because educational achievement has been shown to improve long-term health, addressing these delays may foster greater health equity. This systematic review assesses the extent to which full-day kindergarten (FD...

BACKGROUND Disease Management Programmes (DMPs) aim to improve effectiveness and equity of care but may suffer from selective enrolment. We analysed social disparities in DMP enrolment among elderly patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) in Germany, taking into account contextual effects at municipality and primary care practice levels. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis of effects of educa...

This paper reviews the available data on education and training outputs and outcomes across the sectors for six major equity groups. The review indicates that: • cross sectoral analyses of equity outcomes are hampered by the lack of uniformity of data • while education and training outputs and outcomes for most targeted sub-groups have improved in absolute terms over the past decade, members of...

Although China has become the world’s second largest economy, a serious urgent issue of global consequences as well as the major obstacle in the process of China’s economic development is the lack of CSR. Through CSR initiatives, enterprises of all sizes, in cooperation with their stakeholders, can help to reconcile economic, social and environmental ambitions. Socially responsible supply chain...