At the first BRIC(S) summit in 2009, leaders of major emerging market countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) from different continents committed to build a democratic transparent economic architecture, support efforts Group 20 (G20) reform international financial institutions, restore growth, deepen intra-group cooperation. Since then, views expressed literature on BRICS (expanded include...

1 School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa; 2 Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa; 3 Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, and Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford Unive...

AIM To examine the relationships between leader-member exchange (LMX), workplace learning options (teamwork, training and development), empowerment and organisational commitment, for nurses in Australia, England and Brazil. BACKGROUND The supervisor-employee relationship is fundamental to management theory and practice within the work context of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Devel...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Scientific and technological development is crucial for advancing the Brazilian health system and for promoting quality of life. The way in which the Brazilian Ministry of Health has supported clinical research to provide autonomy, self-sufficiency, competitiveness and innovation for the healthcare industrial production complex, in accordance with the National Policy on Sc...

This paper investigates how exchange rates and oil prices have affected sectoral stock returns in the BRICS-T countries over period from 2 January 2001 to 22 March 2021. Following estimation of a benchmark linear model, Bai Perron (2003) tests are carried out each case identify structural breaks, then state-space model with time-varying parameters is also estimated. The analysis shows that sign...

In this article, we aim to compare the socioeconomic development (SED) of countries listed in G7 (representing developed nations) and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China South Africa—developing countries). Further, intend delve into nexus between SED a country its resilience current pandemic, COVID-19. The initial apprehension is that with better can show resilience. To test assumption, conside...

P. Lloyd ([email protected]), Percy FitzPatrick Inst., DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, Univ. of Cape Town, P/Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa, and Biodiversity Assessment and Management Pty Ltd, PO Box 1376, Cleveland 4163, Australia. – F. Abadi, South African National Biodiversity Inst., P/Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa, and School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Univ. of Wit...

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Forty two Paleocene benthic foraminiferal species of the Midway Formation in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas, USA were firstly investigated by Plummer (1927), and its paleogeographic distribution in some other countries in the Tethyan province were recorded: North America (USA, Mexico), South America (Argentina), Europe (North Sea Basin, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria), North Af...

Abstract This paper uses R/S (Rescaled Range) analysis and fractional integration techniques to examine the persistence of two sets 12 ESG (Environmental, Social Governance) conventional stock price indices from MSCI ((Morgan Stanley Capital International) database over period 2007–2020 for a large number both developed emerging markets. Both results imply that there are no significant differen...