scholarly journals Political Economies of Acute Childhood Illnesses: Measuring Structural Racism as Mesolevel Mortgage Market Risks

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (Suppl) ◽  
pp. 319-332
Author(s):  
Alyasah Ali Sewell
Keyword(s):  
Sore Throat ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Market Risks ◽  
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act ◽  
Upset Stomach ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Home Mortgage

Objectives: Health studies of structural racism/discrimination have been animated through the deployment of neighborhood effects frameworks that engage institutional­ist concerns about sociopolitical resources and mobility structures. This study high­lights the acute illness risks of place-based inequalities and neighborhood-varying race-based inequalities by focusing on access to and the regulation of mortgage markets.Design: By merging neighborhood data on lending processes from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act with individual health from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, this article evalu­ates the acute childhood illness risks of four mutually inclusive, political economies using multilevel generalized linear models.Setting: Chicago, IL, USAParticipants: Youth aged 0 to 17 yearsMethods: Multilevel logistic regressionMain Outcome Measures: The prevalence of 11 acute illnesses (cold/flu, sinus trouble, sore throat/tonsils, headache, upset stom­ach, bronchitis, skin infection, pneumonia, UTI, fungal disease, mononucleosis) and the past-year frequencies of 6 acute illnesses (cold/flu, sinus trouble, sore throat/tonsils, headache, upset stomach, bronchitis) are evaluated.Results: The most theoretically consistent predictor of illness is a measure identifying neighborhoods with above-city-median levels of racial disparities in the regulation of loans – a mesolevel measure of structural racism. In areas with high levels of Minority- White differences in less regulated credit, youth are more likely to have a range of acute illnesses and experience them at more frequent intervals in the past year.Conclusions: This article highlights the substantive and methodological importance of focusing on multidimensional representa­tions of institutionalized political economic inequalities circumscribed and traversed by the power relations established by institu­tions and the state.Ethn Dis.2021;31(Suppl1):319-332; doi:10.18865/ed.31.S1.319

scholarly journals The Mortgage Market in 2011: Highlights from the Data Reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act

2012 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Avery ◽  
◽  
Neil Bhutta ◽  
Kenneth P. Brevoort ◽  
Glenn B. Canner
Keyword(s):  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act ◽  
Home Mortgage

scholarly journals The Mortgage Market in 2010: Highlights from the Data Reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act

2011 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Avery ◽  
◽  
Neil Bhutta ◽  
Kenneth P. Brevoort ◽  
Glenn B. Canner
Keyword(s):  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act ◽  
Home Mortgage

Conclusion: Thailand at the Margins

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Glassman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legitimate Concern ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Full Force ◽  
The Cold War

The economic crisis and the rise of the Thai Rak Thai Party supplies a paradoxical dénouement to a half-century of rapid Thai economic growth and industrial transformation—as well as to a much longer period of internationalization and general social change. The paradox, however, is not an unsolvable riddle but rather the contradictory character of dependent capitalist development, which inevitably brings destruction along in the train of creation, predicating new possibilities of accumulation on processes of violent devaluation. The Thai political economy now experiences this volatility in virtually full force, having been ‘opened’ and integrated into the rhythms of global capital accumulation over the course of more than a century. The seeming stability and predictable growth of the years between 1950 and 1995 were facilitated tremendously by Thailand’s integral role in the Cold War system, which created various ‘conjunctural’ cushions against the underlying volatility (e.g. US aid, favoured trade status). With the end of the Cold War system, the Thai political economy is now being increasingly thrust into the less predictable world of global neo-liberalism and post-Fordism and is thus less cushioned against capitalism’s ‘gales of creative destruction’. To say this is not to say that growth and industrialization are now on hold. The crisis may well open new opportunities for accumulation and even resumption of rapid growth. But even successful capitalist growth has always done damage to a significant portion of the population—creating and perpetuating enormous socio-spatial disparities—and it will very likely continue to do so in the future. At the same time, the vagaries of the era of ‘globalization’ may make the growth dynamic much rockier than in the past. Boosters of East Asian ‘miracles’ should be reminded that other political economies—e.g. Mexico, Brazil, Argentina—have been regarded as ‘miracles’ in the past, and while these remain important industrial producers today, they would hardly be invoked as models for improvement of livelihoods and social welfare. A legitimate concern regarding many of the Asian NICs, including Thailand, may well be whether or not the international accumulation processes in which they are integrated will lead in the directions previously traversed by so many of the former ‘miracle’ economies of Latin America.

Women in Postcolonial Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selina Makana
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
African Women ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
Peace Activists ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Independence Era ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
Experiences Of Women

As scholars of Africa continue to challenge the place and role of Africa in world history, shedding light on women as valid historical actors in postcolonial Africa within the last three decades remains an ongoing and much-needed endeavor. African women in the past and the present have used their position as breadwinners, mothers, and community leaders to influence their social, economic, and political worlds and to assert their power. In the 21st century, they have become known especially for their success as formidable politicians and peace activists. Even in the age of cyberactivism, women in postcolonial Africa have demonstrated their ability to mobilize across ethno-linguistic lines to effect change in their societies. It is important to move beyond the male-centric perspectives on Africa by highlighting not only the diverse experiences of women in the post-independence era but to also underscore the fundamental roles they continue to play in defining and redefining the postcolonial political economies, and their place in them.

The Global Recession of 2007–2009: The Moral Factor and Jewish Law

2010 ◽  
pp. 403-428
Author(s):  
Aaron Levine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Subprime Mortgage ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
United States Economy ◽  
Moral Factor ◽  
Home Mortgage

This article focuses on the recent global recession that raged the world and in particular the United States with special reference to Jewish law. In December 2007, the United States economy plunged into the longest and deepest downturn since the Great Depression. The driving force behind the recession was the widespread failure of the subprime mortgage market, the segment of the home mortgage market extending loans to households with impaired credit histories and with little or no documentation of income. The collapse of that sector occurred in a rapid succession of events beginning with the fall of Countrywide Financial in January 2008. This article further moves to explain the moral factor pervading the recession and analyses the situation as per Jewish law. The central relevant moral dictum of Jewish law is the Imitatio Dei principle, which says that, in our interpersonal conduct, we should emulate the various attributes of mercy.

International pension swaps

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZVI BODIE ◽  
ROBERT C. MERTON
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Equity Market ◽  
Financial Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Market Risks ◽  
Investment Companies ◽  
Domestic Capital ◽  
Swap Contracts

During the past twenty years, swap contracts have become key financial ‘adapters’ linking diverse national financial systems to the global financial network. Today banks and investment companies around the world use swaps extensively to manage their currency, interest-rate, and equity-market risks and to lower their transaction costs. Yet pension funds, which have grown rapidly over that same 20-year period, hardly use swaps at all. This paper suggests how pension funds could use swaps to achieve the risk-sharing benefits of broad international diversification and hedging while avoiding the ‘flight’ of scarce domestic capital to other countries. The paper also shows how swaps can be used to lower the risks of expropriation and to lower the other transaction costs of investing in other countries.

scholarly journals Tenacity in Performance of Small and Mid-cap Mutual Funds in Indian Scenario- In support to Investors Decision

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1088-1091
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Past ◽  
Market Risks ◽  
Support Decision Making ◽  
Indian Scenario

Mutual funds play a crucial role in financial sector for small-scale and large-scale investors. Within the Indian scenario, there is a need to define criteria to guide the investors in selection between small-caps and mid-caps mutual funds. Although small-caps provide there is always a question of higher market risks compared to mid-caps. So, the work emphasizes on analysis performances of Small caps in comparison with mid-caps that would certainly support decision-making. In the present work a comprehensive assessment of existing mutual funds that involves small and mid-cap with respect to Indian scenario is presented and their performance in the market for the past ten years is analyzed. The study analyses the fund’s performance by considering parameters like market risk, momentum, expenses, size and value. The persistence and decision-making of the investor are discussed with respect to the small and mid-cap funds. In this regard, we have considered the best and worst-performing small and mid-cap funds according to their returns in a overall span of more than 3 years. A comparative analysis between the decision making parameters that are performing and underperforming during this period are considered. In this study, small-caps funds like HDFC small-cap fund, Kotak, DSP small Cap fund and Franklin India Small MF and in parallel, mid-cap funds including Kota Emerging equity, DSP Midcap and Axis Midcap and Franklin India are considered

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