1074 papers
This paper argues that socio-economic evaluations of large-scale research infrastructures must evolve from sporadic compliance exercises into integrated, life-cycle management tools by addressing key challenges in rationale, methodology, communication, and governance.
This study challenges the assumption that infrastructure and education spending inherently generate complementary growth returns across developing economies, finding instead that while capital formation and digital connectivity drive growth, education expenditure fails to activate infrastructure's potential due to absorptive capacity constraints and service-delivery failures.
This study utilizes secondary data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey and other national sources to analyze the significant prevalence of education–employment mismatch among graduates in Bihar, concluding that limited job opportunities, skill disparities, and spatial inequalities drive underemployment and necessitate stronger industry–education linkages.
This paper utilizes causal Double Machine Learning on Egyptian data from 2010 to 2026 to demonstrate that foreign portfolio inflows ("hot money") impose severe fiscal costs and trigger explosive sovereign debt dynamics beyond a 22.5% concentration threshold, proposing dynamic reserve requirements and Quanto-indexed debt as effective mechanisms to mitigate these risks and save hundreds of billions in fiscal costs.
This study of Saudi non-financial firms reveals that while ESG disclosure generally correlates with a firm-value penalty, board composition attributes—specifically gender diversity, size, and expertise—act as critical boundary conditions that differentially moderate this relationship, with gender diversity and board size offering distinct, often substitutive or performance-dependent, effects on value across the distribution of firm performance.
This study employs a hybrid SEM–fsQCA analysis of 372 Chinese enterprises to demonstrate that inland port innovations drive firm internationalization by enhancing supply chain resilience and cost cognition, which—alongside strengthened institutional mechanisms—foster internal and external motivations, with internal motivation proving particularly impactful through four distinct configurational pathways.
This study empirically demonstrates that Scope 3 Emissions Tracking significantly enhances Circular Supply Chain Performance, both directly and indirectly through Supplier Sustainability Collaboration, with Data Transparency serving as a critical moderator that strengthens these relationships based on a survey of 328 Ghanaian firms.
Using a DID approach on data from 285 Chinese cities (2008–2023), this study demonstrates that the synergistic implementation of Pilot Free Trade Zones and National E-commerce Demonstration Cities significantly promotes urban-rural industrial integration by fostering entrepreneurial vitality, rural e-commerce, and digital transformation, with effects varying across regions.
Using a Fixed-Effects IV approach on Indonesian provincial data from 2017 to 2024, this study finds that while economic openness boosts regional output and modestly reduces unemployment, it fails to directly alleviate poverty, highlighting that inclusive development requires complementing openness with employment-oriented strategies, human capital investment, and productive public expenditure.
This mixed-methods study of Ethiopian banks and insurance companies (2012–2026) reveals a "Trust Paradox" where, despite evidence of earnings management, investor confidence is primarily driven by audit reputation and regulatory oversight rather than the direct quality of financial statements, thereby supporting Signaling theory.