1780 papers
This study compares the impacts of Self-Help Groups and the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme on women's economic empowerment in Purba Medinipur, finding that while the cash transfer scheme offers immediate relief, SHG participation drives more sustainable and holistic empowerment through increased income, financial autonomy, and community engagement.
This paper presents an open-source, entropy-indexed POMDP decision-support tool that helps universities minimize financial risk under enrolment uncertainty by dynamically constraining irreversible commitments based on Bayesian belief updates, demonstrating superior performance in reducing crisis probability and maximizing financial reward across diverse institutional scenarios.
Drawing on Social Identity Theory and the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study of 317 Saudi consumers reveals that relational and process proximities significantly boost willingness to pay for local food by enhancing consumer confidence, with price transparency and past purchasing behavior further strengthening these relationships to support Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030.
This quantitative study utilizing STATA 17 and panel data from Asian Islamic banks between 2016 and 2025 demonstrates that Islamic banking significantly advances Sustainable Development Goals by enhancing environmental, energy, and economic efficiency through its ethical, risk-sharing principles that prioritize financing green and socially inclusive projects.
This study demonstrates that while both health and sustainability information interventions effectively increase Chinese consumers' demand for food-loss-reduced rice, they operate through distinct pathways and are differentially effective depending on consumer demographics and psychological traits, thereby offering critical guidance for designing targeted policies to narrow the supply-demand knowledge gap.
This quantitative study of 200 respondents demonstrates that integrating climate adaptation strategies into public policy and development planning significantly enhances regional and national development, economic resilience, and social stability, thereby underscoring the critical need for sustained investment and strategic planning to secure future welfare.
This panel data analysis of 25 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2023 reveals that economic diversification and human well-being are the primary long-run drivers of Sustainable Development Goal attainment, while export competitiveness and CO2 emissions present significant structural and environmental challenges that require policy alignment with green growth strategies.
This mixed-methods study of 186 households in Sekota Woreda, Ethiopia, reveals that seasonal labor migration is primarily driven by food insecurity and PSNP participation while being hindered by asset ownership, and highlights a shift from rural agricultural work to urban construction jobs, underscoring the need for integrated rural development to address underlying poverty and structural vulnerabilities.
This study of commercial banks in Dar es Salaam reveals that while risk assessment is a significant predictor of fraud detection, information and communication channels, despite showing a positive correlation, do not significantly enhance detection capabilities on their own.
This mixed-methods study investigates how recruiters perceive AI-generated resumes and whether their use improves hiring outcomes, aiming to determine if the structural advantages of AI tools are offset by an "authenticity penalty" when authorship is suspected.