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Survey Brief: Rwandan Businesses Share Their Priorities for Capital-Market Development
With approximately 12 million citizens and a nominal GDP of just under $9 billion, the Rwandan econ
omy is small.
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Bank Competition and Opacity
When banks manipulate financial statements to smooth earnings, circumvent capital requirements, and
reduce taxes, investors are unable to accurately evaluate their performance.
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Payday Lending: Does Regulation Depend on Which Party Holds Power?
When a borrower receives a so-called “payday loan,” he or she writes a check that is postdated to t
he next payday or signs over permission for the lender to make an electronic withdrawal of the amount borrowed, plus fees, on that day.
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Comments_on_the_Department_of_the_Treasury_TREAS_Notice.pdf
The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (CFM) provided written comments to the Department
of the Treasury regarding expanding access to credit through online marketplace lending.
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Testimony: What’s in it for the United States? On the Constitutionality and Legitimacy of the Financial Stability Board (and International Financial Regulation)
Written Testimony of
Chris Brummer, J.D., Ph.D.
Senate Banking Committee
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
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Expanding the Science of Patient Input: The Power of Language
Language matters.
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Global Opportunity Index 2016
Based on the 2016 edition of the Milken Institute Global Opportunity Index, the report assesses the
attractiveness of Asian countries to foreign investors and provides a closer look at the composition of Asia’s capital inflows.
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The Asset Management Industry and Systemic Risk: Is There a Connection?
In the aftermath of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, new legislation and regulations have pressured
banks and insurance companies to reduce their size, leverage, and riskier lines of business in order to avoid another too-big-to-fail debacle.
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Weighing Solutions to Obesity
This report, an overview of studies on prevention and intervention, serves as a valuable resou
rce for anyone interested in programs for obesity reduction and weight loss.
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How Drug Trafficking Is Fueling the Opioid Crisis
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we are now entering the "third wave"
of the nation's opioid crisis, which involves staggering trends related to fentanyl and the global drug-trafficking trade.
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Undercapitalization: Closing the Gender Growth Gap Across Industries
Despite mounting evidence of the returns on investing in women-led ventures, only 2.2 percent of t
he $85 billion invested in 2017 went to all-women teams, and less than 10 percent of all venture-capital deals go to women, people of color, and LGBTQ foun
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