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Unlocking Financial Inclusion: The Dynamics of Bank Account Ownership in Urban Slums

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Financial inclusion is a key driver of sustainable development, contributing to poverty reduction (SDG 1), gender equality (SDG 5), and reduced inequalities (SDG 10). Despite extensive financial‐inclusion policies in India, residents of urban slums remain largely excluded from formal banking systems.
Davide Moro, Sivia Trentin, Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Paolo Landoni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Respirable Quartz Exposure in Façade Renovations of Masonry Buildings. [PDF]

Toxics
Tuomi T, Haapanen K, Wiedmer SK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Advancing Sustainable Industrialization Under SDG 9: The Role of Financial Globalization and Income Inequality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how income inequality and financial globalization shape sustainable industrialization across 87 countries over 2000–2022, using the SDG 9 composite index as the outcome and the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) to capture heterogeneous effects.
Özge Kozal, Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente
wiley   +1 more source

Human Versus Robot Assistance: Older Adults' Preferences for Assistance on Domestic Tasks. [PDF]

Sage Open Aging
Lee LY, Yeung CK, Choi CW, Leung MN, Lui SY, Tam WY, Tang KY, Wong CS, Wong YS, Yau CY, Yeung TL, Lee JK, Chui DL.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Women's Empowerment, Governance, and the Economics of Clean Cooking Transitions in Africa

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, the global economy, particularly in developing nations, has persistently grappled with rising dependence on conventional energy resources, thus rendering the realization of Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 7 (SDGs 5 and 7) an elusive aspiration for the international community.
Stephen Kelechi Dimnwobi, Olufemi Gbenga Onatunji, Simplice A. Asongu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strong and Agile Wall-Climbing Robots Capable of Traversing Obstacles via Anisotropic Acoustic Adhesion. [PDF]

Research (Wash D C)
Yuan K, Peng J, Qin A, Zhu W, Liu Y, Ma J, Ma Y, Chen X, Snyder GJ.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Floor Cleaners as Helper Pets: Projecting Assistive Robots' Agency on Zoomorphic Affordances. [PDF]

SN Comput Sci, 2023
Grimme SA, Kollakidou A, Sønderskov Zarp C, Hornecker E, Krüger N, Graf P, Marchetti E.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Green Finance, Energy Transition and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa: A Dynamic Analysis of African Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the dynamic relationship between Green Finance (proxied by green Official Development Assistance) and the expansion of Renewable Energies on biodiversity conservation across 48 African countries over the period 2000–2017.
Mounkaila Gourouza Nana Hadiza, Mohamed Kouni   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Issues in applications of nursing care robots, and in the training of care workers in their use in Japan. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Nguyen NC, Saito M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
wiley   +1 more source