1111 papers
This study analyzes the global fresh mango market from 2006 to 2024 using HHI, CMS, and RSCA methods to reveal a highly competitive landscape where Thailand and Peru have gained competitiveness while India has declined, ultimately demonstrating that agricultural productivity, quality leadership, and market diversification are critical drivers of export success.
This study utilizes PLS-SEM analysis of 116 Saudi professionals to demonstrate that while integrated urban development management is the primary driver of smart city resilience in Saudi Arabia, Islamic financial engineering also provides a significant, complementary contribution to the Kingdom's Vision 2030 urban transformation.
Using an ARDL bounds testing approach on data from 1990 to 2024, this study finds that while trade openness and foreign direct investment significantly drive Ghana's long-term economic growth, domestic credit to the private sector negatively impacts short-term GDP, suggesting a need for policies that enhance trade liberalization, attract quality FDI, and improve credit allocation efficiency.
Using an ARDL approach on data from 1980 to 2022, this study finds that while foreign aid alone has a limited direct impact on Somalia's food production, its effectiveness is significantly enhanced when combined with favorable climatic conditions, highlighting the critical need for integrating climate adaptation measures into aid strategies to ensure food security.
This study employs a combined TVP-VAR and QVAR framework to demonstrate that spillover connectedness among African stock markets, precious metals, and cryptocurrencies is highly regime-dependent, revealing that cryptocurrencies act as major shock transmitters, African equities as net receivers, and precious metals as unreliable safe havens during periods of market stress.
This paper employs a mixed-frequency quantile regression framework to demonstrate that while climate-pressure indicators like heat stress show limited association with ASEAN food inflation on average, they serve as significant supplementary signals for monitoring elevated inflation risks in the upper tail of the distribution, whereas global food prices and currency depreciation remain the primary drivers.
This empirical study utilizing a paired t-test on secondary data from 2010 to 2024 concludes that while the 2017 merger of State Bank of India initially caused a temporary decline in profitability due to asset quality issues, it ultimately resulted in significant long-term financial improvements, evidenced by enhanced Net Interest Margins and Capital Adequacy Ratios.
This study employs an explainable machine learning pipeline on 297,227 Airbnb reviews across twelve global cities to quantify spatial disparities in guest-perceived accommodation quality using a novel inequality index, revealing that moderate-restrictive regulatory regimes exhibit higher quality dispersion than permissive or highly restrictive ones while identifying Superhost status as the dominant, location-conditioned predictor of satisfaction.
Based on a large-scale survey of 5,762 households in Hargeisa, Somaliland, this study reveals that financial literacy and saving behaviors are significantly stronger predictors of reduced food insecurity than income alone, highlighting a critical disconnect between formal education and functional financial capability in urban Somaliland.
This study challenges the conventional view that persistent inflation target deviations inevitably destroy central bank credibility, demonstrating through the Turkish case that under political dominance, credibility can persist not as an inflation anchor but as a predictable "credibility floor" reflecting the regime's internal consistency.