ArchaeoGenetics of SouthAsian and European Populations

#PaleoAnthropology #ArchaeoGenetics #EthnoLinguistics…. #GeoPolitics(!?) @lizzie_wade @sciencemag @biorxiv https://t.co/ruu7aejhvk https://t.co/rQdSrQ96Jo on ‘A Tale of Two #SubContinents’ - #India & #Europe…the peopling of the two occurred via parallel (if not exactly coeval) pic.twitter.com/ZOFwgrilut

— Satyen Baindur (@Satyen_Baindur) April 23, 2018

...processes – in which steppe herders (4m present-day Kazakhstan, home 2 the original #IndoEuropean speakers) mixed w farmers 4m #Iran & then moved both Westward 2 #Europe & Southeastward 2 India to further mix w populations already there - extent of admixture perhaps varying...

— Satyen Baindur (@Satyen_Baindur) April 23, 2018

The World Bank's Corporate Vulnerability Index: A Leading Indicator for Financial Crises?

.@WorldBank #CorporateVulnerabilityIndex: hope #LeadingIndicator #GrowthSlowdowns & #FinancialCrises esp #EmergingMarkets #DevelopingEconomies: 69 cntries, 14,207 listed
cos, 11 y [2006-16]. Corporate #LeverageRatio by #GeographicalRegion: all converge→~15%; except #SouthAsia pic.twitter.com/mgBjZeq62b

— Satyen Baindur (@Satyen_Baindur) March 12, 2018

...(which is likely almost all #IND companies), is ~25%. Could it also be considered an (admittedly somewhat indirect) index of how effective the (recently established) #MacroPru framework(s) is/r in the regions shown?

— Satyen Baindur (@Satyen_Baindur) March 12, 2018

https://t.co/heb4kXamlb

— Satyen Baindur (@Satyen_Baindur) March 12, 2018