1816 papers
This study demonstrates that in Jordan's pharmaceutical sector, sustainable supply chain practices and green human resource management significantly enhance supply chain performance, with green innovation serving as a critical mediating mechanism in these relationships.
Using new evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades program and various econometric methods, this paper confirms the existence of poverty traps in rural Mexico by identifying a critical asset threshold that creates multiple equilibria, leaving many households trapped in poverty without a pathway to escape.
This paper analyzes financial development across 142 economies from 1993 to 2023, finding that while the IMF Financial Development Index shows high fit with income, this performance is largely attributable to high-persistence common factors rather than a distinct financial driver, with institutional access and market depth emerging as more informative components than efficiency.
This study proposes a hybrid framework combining a multivariate generative scenario engine with a real-coded multi-objective Genetic Algorithm to optimize asset-liability management for Moroccan life insurers, demonstrating significant improvements in profitability and solvency while identifying key macroeconomic and demographic drivers through calibration with official data from 2012 to 2024.
This paper utilizes scenario analysis to demonstrate that the maritime transport industry must transition from volume-dependent business models to strategies prioritizing specialized services and energy transition support, as both Green Growth and Post-growth pathways fundamentally reshape global trade patterns, cargo structures, and port activities through a shift away from fossil fuels and toward regionalized, circular economies.
Although Norway's 2023 aquaculture rent tax was designed to be neutral through immediate expensing, it ultimately created a size-dependent burden where large firms avoided the tax by reorganizing their assets while smaller firms, unable to afford such restructuring, significantly reduced their investment.
This study utilizes mixed-methods research from Gomma Woreda, Jimma Zone, to demonstrate that the hypothetical 2026 US-Iran energy crisis severely threatens Ethiopia's macro-financial stability through fuel price hikes and supply disruptions, revealing a critical gap between high public demand for intervention and low community preparedness that necessitates immediate social safety nets and long-term renewable energy diversification.
This paper argues that traditional dominance-based predatory pricing rules fail to address the risks of conglomerate-financed below-cost entry in BRICS telecommunications markets, as illustrated by India's Jio case, and proposes four operational reforms to better regulate sustained cross-subsidization and prevent rapid market reconcentration.
This study of rural households in Ethiopia's Sidama Region reveals that while 83.4% of families participate in nonfarm activities, these contribute only 11.6% to total income, with farm income being the sole statistically significant determinant of nonfarm participation, suggesting a need to boost both agricultural productivity and viable nonfarm employment to enhance livelihood diversification.
This study introduces a digital-twin-guided multi-agent framework that integrates noisy infrastructure monitoring with adaptive finance allocation to optimize climate-resilience outcomes, demonstrating that coupling real-time state estimation with robust budget reallocation significantly improves average service levels and equity while revealing the limits of targeting alone against extreme cascading failures.