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How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Выбросы углерода: влияние на структуру экономики, энергетическую политику и климат — на примере Китая и России

open access: yesЭкономика региона
В условиях нарастающих климатических вызовов снижение выбросов CO₂ стало ключевой задачей устойчивого развития, особенно для таких стран, как Китай и Россия, демонстрирующих разные экономические и энергетические траектории.
Жун Гао   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Role of household waste, governance quality, and greener energy for public health: Evidence from developed economies

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
In the current times, the global economies and international organizations declared that pollution is one of the prominent causes of declined human health. Still, most literature is biased toward economic sustainability and ignores such vital issues. The
Jiping Wei, Lihua Xu, Jing Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesSustainable 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

The association between national income and adult obesity prevalence: Empirical insights into temporal patterns and moderators of the association using 40 years of data across 147 countries.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:At a country level, population obesity prevalence is often associated with economic affluence, reflecting a potential adverse outcome concomitant with economic growth.
Debabrata Talukdar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

FinTech and Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From Brazil

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic interplay between economic growth and environmental sustainability from a FinTech perspective, using Brazil as a case study. While FinTech's contribution to green transformation, sustainable finance, and resource efficiency has gained increasing attention, a notable lack of empirical research remains to assess ...
Kemal Eyuboglu, Umut Uzar
wiley   +1 more source

ENERGY ACCESS AND HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES

open access: yesActa Economica, 2019
This study empirically examined the energy access and household income in Sub-Saharan African countries between 1990 and 2015. The study employed five variables: energy access, per capita income, energy price, FDI and trade openness, as well as panel ...
Musibau Ojo Adejumo, Ajide Bello Kazeem
doaj   +1 more source

Targeted Trade Policy Instruments and Climate Change Mitigation: The Case of Environmental Provisions in Trade Agreements

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of including environmental provisions (EPs) in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on climate change mitigation and explores whether these effects vary based on the heterogeneity of the EPs. Our analysis combines country‐level data on climate change mitigation with details on 300 types of EPs in 775 trade ...
Petros Suzgo Kayovo Mkandawire   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the recycling potential of industrial waste for long-term sustainability

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Industrial waste is the byproduct of many industrial processes. Estimating the recycling potential of industrial waste can help solve the anthropogenic circularity conundrum. Here we employed the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) to verify GDP as a route
Qudsia Kanwal, Xianlai Zeng, Jinhui Li
doaj   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Inequality and Corruption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We argue that income inequality increases the level of corruption through material and normative mechanisms. The wealthy have both greater motivation and opportunity to engage in corruption, while the poor are more vulnerable to extortion and less able ...
Jong-Sung You, Sanjeev Khagram
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