The role of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to the sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa and its challenges: a systematic review of evidence …

E Endris, A Kassegn - Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2022 - Springer
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) have a potential impact on achieving
many of the sustainable development goals much greater than their size. This review aimed …

The impact of digital technology usage on economic growth in Africa

EM Solomon, A van Klyton - Utilities policy, 2020 - Elsevier
This study analyses the impact of the use of digital technology on economic growth for 39
African countries from 2012 to 2016. This analysis applies a system GMM estimator to …

[HTML][HTML] Energy crisis, firm profitability, and productivity: An emerging economy perspective

J Xu, M Akhtar, M Haris, S Muhammad, OJ Abban… - Energy Strategy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy shortage has a significant effect on businesses in developing countries. To
overcome energy crises, such countries are adopting different strategies in their industrial …

Power shortage and firm performance: Evidence from a Chinese city power shortage index

D Guo, Q Li, P Liu, X Shi, J Yu - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Extreme climate events and renewable energy development challenge the reliability of the
power supply, which is an important guarantee for high-quality economic development and …

How do power shortages affect CO2 emission intensity? Firm-level evidence from China

J Yu, P Liu, D Fu, X Shi - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Power shortage is a development challenge that most developing countries often face,
which not only brings negative impacts to firms' growth, but also has an impact on their …

[HTML][HTML] Electricity access and unreliability in the creation of sustainable livelihoods in Mozambique

MA Ugembe, MC Brito, R Inglesi-Lotz - Energy for Sustainable …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although Mozambique has abundant energy resources and strives to increase access to
electricity as a strategy to fight poverty and to pursue the Sustainable Development Goals …

Leveraging social media data to study the community resilience of New York City to 2019 power outage

L Li, Z Ma, T Cao - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020 - Elsevier
Power outages across the world have severe social impacts. The public's responses to
power outages provide valuable insights into their capacities of adapting crisis and an …

Role of corporate social responsibility on firm performance in emerging economy: The mediating role of access to finance and business model innovation

QH Ngo, TT Le - Cogent Business & Management, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study is to perform the impacts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) based
on the firms' performance (FP). These investigations also provide the mediating role of …

Design optimization of a hybrid solar-biomass plant to sustainably supply energy to industry: Methodology and case study

FB Tilahun, R Bhandari, M Mamo - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
To gain the benefits of solar-biomass cogeneration plant, supplying energy to industry, the
design optimization procedure is required to holistically integrate economical, technical and …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring downstream supply chain losses due to power disturbances

D Thomas, J Fung - Energy economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Power outages in the US affect many firms' economic activity and are likely to result in
downstream supply chain disruptions. This paper examines the impact of power …