This paper adopts the tail-event driven network (TENET) framework to explore the connectedness and systemic risk of the banking industry along the Belt and Road (B&R) based on weekly returns of 377 publicly-listed banks from 2014 to 2019.We conduct the connectedness analysis from four levels (i.e., system, region, Afro Kinky country and institution
Background: Strategic planning assists organisations to capitalise on opportunities that arise and to minimise the threats posed by unstable market environments.Apart from Salt the track record of poor performance amongst some small, medium and micro-scale enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa, COVID-19 pandemic severely affected more than 55 000 Sou
Dairy powders are mainly produced by droplet spray drying, an articulated process that enables the manufacture of high added-value goods with a long shelf life and well-preserved functional properties.Despite the recent advances, a full understanding of the mechanisms occurring at the droplet scale in drying towers and, consequently, of the impact