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Informal Firms' Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Under Uncertain Times: Evidence From Burkina Faso

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how uncertainty affects mobile money adoption and use by informal businesses. Despite the prevalence of the informal sector in developing countries and the recognized potential of mobile money for financial inclusion, empirical research on its adoption and usage among unregistered businesses is limited.
Serge Stéphane Ky, Clovis Rugemintwari
wiley   +1 more source

Internet, Inequality, and Regime Stability

open access: yesScottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the link between income inequality and political instability, focusing on the moderating role of Internet penetration. Using data from over 120 countries (1996–2020), we find a conditional relationship: in low‐Internet countries, higher inequality associates with lower instability, likely due to limited political awareness ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uniform for All? A Framing Experiment on the Acceptance of a Gender‐Neutral Compulsory Service in Switzerland

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In light of increasing military conflicts within and outside Europe, as well as demands for more appropriate representation of women, gender‐neutral military service has become a topic of public debate. Building on research on framing effects, this article examines which factors influence public acceptance of gender‐neutral military service ...
Johanna Hornung   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced IoT threat detection using Graph-Regularized neural networks optimized by Sea-Lion algorithm. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Santhosh DT   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios

open access: yesFUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Scenario reports, holding a long‐standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field ...
Gerhard Schönhofer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incident-aware smart prioritization framework for penetration testing and prevention of URL-based cybersecurity attacks in industry 4.0 IoT networks. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Nurlan Z   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Opening the Black Box of EU Digital Sovereignty: A Macro‐Level Analysis of the Concept's Development

open access: yesGovernance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Digital sovereignty has emerged as a central organizing principle in European Union governance, yet systematic understanding of its conceptual evolution remains limited. This article provides the first macro‐level analysis of how digital sovereignty evolves across institutional and academic domains.
Aleksei Turobov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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