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Labour Dynamics and Scarcity in Ghana’s Cocoa Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Non- Mining and Mining-Affected Communities Across GCFRP HIAs

This study reveals that small-scale mining activities in Ghana's cocoa-growing regions exacerbate labour scarcity and increase costs by diverting the workforce away from agriculture, thereby threatening the sustainability of cocoa production and climate-smart initiatives through delayed farm management and reduced capacity for sustainable intensification.

Prince Owusu, Lawrence Damnyag, Michael Ansong, Joana Akua Serwaa Ameyaw, Isaac Nunoo, Mike Sefa Boachie, Leonard Akutu2026-08-05

📈 economics

Boosting Customer Loyalty: A Cybernetic Perspective of Perceived Value, Trust, and Customer Citizenship Behavior in Saudi Arabia's Telecom Industry

This study empirically demonstrates that in Saudi Arabia's telecommunications industry, perceived value and trust significantly drive customer citizenship behavior both directly and indirectly through customer loyalty, thereby validating a unified theoretical framework that integrates Social Exchange and Commitment-Trust theories to explain proactive customer engagement in a non-Western market.

Abrar Alhomaid, Ahmed Elnagar, Ahmad Herzallah, Walid abou bakr Abouzeid, Hossam El Din Mohamed, Neama El wakeel2026-08-05

📈 economics

Targeting Efficiency in Means Testing: A Comparison of Money-Metric and Counting Approaches

This paper demonstrates that when using identical household data, a money-metric aggregation approach significantly outperforms a counting-based approach in targeting efficiency for means testing, establishing aggregation structure as a critical determinant of social protection performance.

Federico Perali, Martina Menon, Eva Sierminska2026-08-04

📈 economics

Foreign gatekeepers for local markets

This paper demonstrates that foreign media coverage acts as a critical gatekeeper in emerging markets like India, where improved access to global economic news enhances market efficiency by shaping investor expectations and counteracting coordinated local behaviors.

Catalin Dragomirescu-Gaina2026-08-04

📈 economics

Algorithmic Targeting for Direct Social Assistance: Eliminating Leakage and Calculating the Vulnerability Gap in Emerging Economies

This paper proposes the "Algorithmic Vulnerability Gap" (AVG), a novel microeconomic framework that replaces traditional Proxy Means Testing with a dynamic deficit calculation to accurately identify household vulnerability in emerging economies, thereby eliminating subsidy leakage and precisely determining sovereign budget requirements through large-scale simulations and empirical validation in Nigeria.

Badr Farih2026-08-04

📈 economics

The unused debt capacity channel of financial flexibility in corporate investment decisions in a frontier market

This study of Sri Lankan consumer services firms finds that while financial flexibility generally supports corporate investment, unused debt capacity serves as the primary and statistically significant channel for facilitating investment, whereas cash flexibility and crisis-period interactions show limited or insignificant effects.

Mithila Gowthaman, Narayanage Jayantha Dewasiri2026-08-04

📈 economics

Digital Transformation and ESG Performance in Sustainable Food Production: The Mediating Role of Green Innovation and Organizational Agility

This study empirically demonstrates that digital transformation enhances ESG performance in the food production sector by fostering green innovation, organizational agility, and sustainable food production practices.

Pinnika Syam Yadav, P B Yadav, Preeti Kumari2026-08-04

📈 economics

The Impact of Dynamic Capabilities in Achieving Organizational Ambidexterity: A Field Study at Hayel Saeed Anam Industrial Group in Taiz Governorate, Yemen

This field study at Hayel Saeed Anam Industrial Group in Yemen demonstrates that dynamic capabilities, particularly resource reconfiguration, learning, and integration, have a statistically significant positive impact on achieving organizational ambidexterity.

Wafa Al-Amrany, Abdulmalek Al-Mamari, Abdulwahab Saif2026-08-04

📈 economics

Examining the Appraisers' Role in Redlining through Historical Appraisal Narratives

This study utilizes Natural Language Processing and Geographic Information Systems to demonstrate how subjective racial biases in 1930s HOLC appraisal narratives institutionalized redlining, creating enduring economic disparities and wealth inequality in formerly redlined communities that persist in contemporary real estate assessments.

Linda Loubert2026-08-04

📈 economics

From Rhetoric to Action: Action-Oriented Nationalism and Corporate Green Innovation

Using Chinese listed firms from 2000–2020, this study establishes that action-oriented nationalist rhetoric causally drives corporate green innovation by securing preferential policy treatment, such as tax reductions and government procurement access, particularly in supportive regulatory and competitive environments.

Ning Tang, Mei-Chen Lin, Chih-Yung Lin, Chien-Lin Lu2026-08-04

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