1802 papers
Using data from the APEAF survey and employing selection probit and propensity score matching models, this study finds that while Côte d'Ivoire's public internship policy positively influences graduates' access to decent employment by approximately 6.65% through signaling to employers, the overall probability remains limited despite the benefits of higher education degrees.
Drawing on literature and practitioner insights from major European science organizations, this paper argues that while public procurement is a potent but underutilized driver of innovation in Big Science, overcoming the binding constraints of capacity, culture, and political will through improved governance and measurement frameworks is essential to unlocking its full socio-economic potential.
Using Chinese provincial panel data from 1998 to 2020, this study demonstrates that corruption significantly increases public employment through an "attraction effect" while improvements in the rule of law effectively suppress both corruption and the size of the public sector, highlighting the critical role of legal development in breaking their interlinked cycle.
Using ARDL analysis of data from 1995 to 2024, this study finds that while ICT significantly enhances economic and social sustainability in Nigeria, it negatively impacts environmental sustainability by increasing carbon dioxide emissions, necessitating policies that promote green digital technologies.
This study utilizes systematic review and factor analysis to examine global unemployment trends from 2001 to 2025, revealing how the interplay of demographic, technological, and institutional factors—particularly youth unemployment, gender disparities, and digital transformation—shapes labour market dynamics and offering strategic policy recommendations to enhance workforce resilience and sustainable growth.
This article proposes an adaptive financial-portfolio theory to evaluate counter-terrorist-financing effectiveness by analyzing the interface between organised crime and terrorism, arguing that policy must move beyond counting disrupted assets to assessing how criminal groups dynamically reconfigure diverse, complementary funding mechanisms across physical and digital domains.
This study analyzes data from 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries (2002–2025) to demonstrate that while formal business creation positively correlates with economic growth, its impact is significantly moderated by the region's broader institutional and productive environment, particularly labor informality and export performance, suggesting entrepreneurship functions best as a component of a wider development process rather than a standalone growth driver.
This paper analyzes the trade-offs between nearshoring and friendshoring in global value chains, demonstrating that while nearshoring offers superior operational resilience and lower total costs for core markets despite higher labor expenses, the optimal strategy for multinational corporations is a hybrid "barbell" approach that combines nearshoring for speed with friendshoring for geopolitical risk diversification and cost competitiveness.
This paper reappraises the Generic Competition Paradox by modeling sequential price competition with heterogeneous and misinformed consumers, demonstrating that while brand prices remain higher than generic prices, they decrease with market entry, and that a first-mover advantage consistently arises in oligopolies when accounting for general practitioners' prescription behaviors.
This study analyzes data from Ghanaian non-financial firms (2010–2022) using advanced econometric methods to demonstrate that corporate governance mechanisms, particularly board independence, diversity, and audit committee independence, significantly enhance the quality of ESG disclosures in emerging markets, while CEO duality negatively impacts such transparency.