Following the global financial crisis of 2008, countries stabilized their financial systems and attempted to bolster regulatory systems to protect against systemic risks. Disappointing rates of recovery, however, have shifted the policy focus to growth. How important is the operation of the financial system for economic growth and which financial regulatory reforms will improve financial sector...

Following the financial crisis that broke in the US and other Western economies in late 2008, there is now serious concern about its impact on the developing countries. The world media almost daily reports scenarios of gloom and doom, with many predicting a deep global recession. This paper critically discusses this and concludes that as far as the developing countries are concerned, a bit more...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between the economic recession and the detection of advanced cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in Osaka city from 2007 to 2009. DESIGN A repeated cross-sectional study. SETTING Osaka city has been the highest tuberculosis burden area in Japan. After the previous global financial crisis, the unemployment rate in Osaka prefecture has deteriorated from 5....

The financial crisis clearly illustrated the importance of characterizing the level of 'systemic' risk associated with an entire credit network, rather than with single institutions. However, the interplay between financial distress and topological changes is still poorly understood. Here we analyze the quarterly interbank exposures among Dutch banks over the period 1998-2008, ending with the c...

Financial crisis can be a threat to health, and International Monetary Fund programmes have been associated with impeded efforts to control child and maternal mortality. In 2008, Greece entered the most serious socioeconomic downturn in the country’s modern history, which has steadily worsened over the following years. Vlachadis and Kornarou reported that an increase in stillbirths in Greece wa...

Subprime lending in the United States was a major concern after 2008 financial crisis. While Covid-19 is sweeping world, how will US government and institutions deal with potential crisis of subprime mortgage be discussed this study. Financial market should both change their strategies to In addition controlling spread epidemic, temporarily lower minimum wage provide series quantitative subsidi...

The world is still recovering from the financial crisis peaking in September 2008. The triggering event was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. To detect such turmoils, one can investigate the time-dependent behaviour of correlations between assets or indices. These cross-correlations have been connected to the systemic risks within markets by several studies in the aftermath of this crisis. We ...

The trend towards universal access for HIV prevention and treatment that was initiated at the beginning of the 21st century (international donor funding has been multiplied by 3 to reach 27 billion US$ in 2010) has been threatened by the 2008 9 economic crisis which currently translates in a fiscal crisis for most developed countries (including the US, France and the UK the main donors for HIV/...

The decline of AmericaAmerica and the ascendancy ChinaChina has become a popular theme, nothing seemed to provide clearer marker those disposed idea than financial crisisFinancial crisis 2008, 2008 great recession that followed. AmericaAmerica, larded with personal debt, saw jewel in its empire, Wall StreetWall Street, stumble fall, while China, factories spewing exports across PacificPacific, ...