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By Melissa K. Wrapp and Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine In 2021, researchers from the University of California, Irvine partnered with the Filene Research Institute to study the role of financial institutions in our era of mis- and disinformation.
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By Debashis Acharya (School of Economics, University of Hyderabad) and Alok Kumar Pandey (Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank, announced the pilot launch of the Digital Rupee (e₹), a central bank