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Reporting What Matters, or Reporting What Looks Good? Materiality and Balance in Post–Rana Plaza Apparel Sustainability Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reports (SRs) are widely criticized for vague disclosures and selective emphasis on positive outcomes, yet systematic research on two core SR challenges remains limited: materiality (whether disclosed content is relevant) and balance (whether both achievements and challenges are reported).
Mahsa Mohammadrezaei, José Carlos Marques   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

External Debt and Growth in Developing Countries: A Sensitivity and Causal Analysis [PDF]

external debt, growth, sensitivity analysis ...
Chowdhury, Abdur R.
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Decolonising COVID-19: delaying external debt repayments. [PDF]

Lancet Glob Health, 2020
Khan M, Shanks S.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Community Development, Product Responsibility and Environmental Management Teams for Improving Emissions Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether, under what conditions, and how community development—conceived as a form of engagement with secondary stakeholders—affects firms' emissions performance. Specifically, we examine the moderating role of Environmental Management Teams (EMTs) and the mediating role of product responsibility capability.
Misagh Tasavori, Reza Zaefarian, Niraj Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Debt and PRSP Conditionality [PDF]

debt, poverty, fiscal strategy, external ...
Kiringai, Jane
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The impact of external debt and inflation on economic development in Malawi: an autoregressive distributed lag analysis

Journal of Innovations and Sustainability
Purpose. Malawi continues to face significant economic instability, primarily driven by escalating external debt, rampant inflation and related debt servicing costs.
Sayeed Aboobakr Milanzi
doaj   +1 more source

Greening the Bottom Line: Public Funding for Circular Economy Initiatives and Financial Stability

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public funding for circular economy (CE) initiatives plays a crucial role in shaping corporate financial performance, yet its effects remain underexplored. Grounded in the resource‐based view (RBV) of the firm, this study investigates the financial impact of CE funding on private firms, using Portugal as a case study. It analyses the financial
Rui Cruz, Marisa R. Ferreira, Carina Silva, María Isabel Sánchez‐Hernández   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The debt-growth nexus in poor countries: a reassessment [PDF]

This paper investigates the relationship between external indebtedness and economic growth, with a particular attention to LICs, for which the theoretical arguments of debt overhang and liquidity constraint have to be reconsidered.
Presbitero, Andrea F.
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Does Climate Risk Affect Employment Decisions? International Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of climate risk on corporate employment decisions. Using a large sample from 41 countries, we find a positive association between climate risk and underinvestment in labor, notably manifesting as excessive employee layoffs.
Claude Francoeur, Faten Lakhal, Hamza Nizar, Zvi Singer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Debt overhang in emerging Europe ? [PDF]

This paper assesses the extent to which debt overhang poses a constraint to economic activity in Emerging Europe, as the region emerges from the recent financial and economic crisis.
Brown, Martin, Lane, Philip R.
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