Corporate environmental responsibility, in response to the call for sustainable development,
has become a critical ethical capital for companies to increase firm values and to obtain …

Defining and measuring competitiveness remains a subject of interest as well as debate:
policy makers need to understand how competitive their country is relative to others, and …

We examine the role of firms' government connections, defined by government intervention
in CEO appointment and the status of state ownership, in determining the severity of …

Poverty alleviation has been positioned high on the international development agenda
following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in …

The study aims to analyze the impacts of capital misallocation and technological innovation
on green development efficiency in China by using the panel data from 2000 to 2018. We …

A review of rigorous evaluations of interventions that seek to empower women economically
shows that the same class of interventions has significantly different outcomes depending on …

Given that the regulation system in most developing countries is immature, this paper
investigates how to reduce firm's fossil fuel consumption for energy transition in a …

This study investigates the role of financial inclusion and the institutional environment in
promoting entrepreneurship. Using the panel vector autoregressive model for a sample of …

The world faces multiple health financing challenges as the global health burden evolves.
Countries have set an ambitious health policy agenda for the next 15 years with prioritisation …

This paper provides a comprehensive investigation into the selection of different sources of
finance for both short-term and long-term projects by SMEs, utilizing cross-country data from …