Addressing Extremism and Socioeconomic Challenges

On Friday, March 10 -2023, the US and the world discovered that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had seized the Silicon Valley Bank after SVB’s customers had withdrawn an extraordinary $42 billion from their deposits on March 16. This $4.2 billion an hour, or more than $1 million per second for ten straight hours, an unprecedented event made possible by the use of Apps by many startup founders to access their accounts and advise their friends to do the same -what the ...

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the sixteenth largest bank in the United States, experienced a bank run in early March 2023, and was closed by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) on March 10. This bank failure, followed by others, creates fear of contagion throughout the U.S. and global banking systems. This Brief identifies four factors leading to the SVB crisis: i) Sharp interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve, which adversely affected SVB’s income and balance shee ...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC)’s adoption of Resolution 1325 on October 31, 2000 was one of its most pathbreaking decisions, as for the first time, it was recognized that women’s participation was key to resolving conflicts and securing peace. Since then, UNSCR 1325 has often been described as one of the crowning achievements of the global women’s movement. This paper analyzes Morocco’s approach to peace and security, by understanding how the Kingdom has implemented UNSC ...

This Paper was originally published on mdpi.com   Cities play a fundamental role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this context, public authorities need tools to help in identifying the best set of available solutions for the urban environment. Here, we developed an approach to help decision makers in evaluating sustainable solutions, considering aspects such as emission rate, economic attractiveness, job creation, a ...

The aims of this article were twofold. First, to tackle the issue of convergence from an analytical point of view by presenting the mathematical developments of the main economic growth models, which emphasized that the convergence of African economies is conditional to the investment level in the early stages of physical capital accumulation. As the latter increases, the convergence of African economies is determined by other factors (investment in research and development (R&D ...