Especially striking is the fact that only two studies are directed at the hypotheses advanced in many broad descriptive articles concerning the environmental conditions (e.g., regulation, taxes, unstable macroeconomic conditions, and ripe technologies) spurring financial innovation.
The food crisis has served as a catalyst for the sleepy agricultural sector, spurring financial firms like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in overseas agricultural projects, so the mood was heady for business, though depressing for humanity.
The fifth paper, "Has expansion of mobile phone and internet use spurred financial inclusion in the SAARC countries?", by Sanjaya Kumar Lenka and Rajesh Barik, discovers a positive and significant relationship between the growth of financial inclusion and expansion of both mobile phone and Internet services.
Too big to what, now?" One would imagine that the totality of the crisis, combined with the widespread lack of knowledge of financial terminology among folks on Main Street who ended up bearing the brunt of these massive systemic failures, would spur the financial media to do a better job of informing the American people about the financial sector.
A sharply falling dollar could spur a financial crisis.
While the agreement itself did not guarantee the needed results, it established a critical framework for global collaboration that, many hoped, would further spur world financial and energy markets toward investment in carbon-neutral renewables and away from fossil fuels.
For nearly a month, a phalanx of protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement has been camped out in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, demanding investigations of bank executives whose behavior they feel spurred the financial crisis.
Whether spurred by financial need — he was a profligate man about town and a habitual gambler — or by artistic inclination, or perhaps both, Rowlandson abandoned the rarified milieu and painterly tones of his early work to produce increasingly raucous images for the burgeoning but less-than-discriminating middle-class market.
It was a strategy spurred by financial necessity – the film's producers couldn't secure funding to complete an entirely dramatic feature as planned – but the resulting hybrid is a powerful document of a neglected period of gay history with much to tell us about today.
