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Mobile money and household resilience to food insecurity in Rural Mali: the role of livelihood strategies and digital transfers

Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
Food insecurity remains a persistent challenge in low-income, agriculturally dependent countries like Mali, where limited access to formal financial services constrains households’ ability to cope with economic shocks.
Tidiani Diallo
doaj   +1 more source

Digital documentation of railway tunnel inspection in Austria

Civil Engineering Design, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 3-8, March 2025.
Abstract Infrastructure, especially railway tunnels, require continuous inspection to ensure their safety. Furthermore, the detection of damages at an early stage can improve their service life. These tasks represent a major challenge for those involved and the tunnel down time is a disruption in operation.
Matthias J. Rebhan, Stefan S. Grubinger, Andreas Schüppel, Simona Deutinger, Gernot Schwarzenberger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A conversation with James V. Zidek

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
AbstractThis article documents a series of exchanges between the authors and the senior Canadian statistician Jim Zidek in early 2026. The interview traces his life trajectory, surveying his principal contributions to statistics while offering insights into his motivations, successes, and challenges. Zidek is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and
Christian Genest, Nancy E. Heckman
wiley   +1 more source

Progress, Challenges, and Outlook for Sodium‐Ion Battery Recycling

CleanMat, EarlyView.
This review highlights the progress and challenges of sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) recycling. It introduces the main material systems of SIBs and their degradation, outlines economic, technical, and environmental requirements, and evaluates four major strategies: pretreatment, pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and direct regeneration.
Yihao Shen, Pakinee Thongrit, Panawan Vanaphuti, Xiaotu Ma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Transparency Through Digital Transformation: Evidence on Carbon Disclosure Quality From China's Heavy‐Polluting Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rise of digital transformation (DT) has become an important driver of transparency in corporate environmental disclosure. Whether and how DT is related to the improvement of carbon information disclosure quality, particularly in heavily polluting firms that may have both information and symbolic roles, is still controversial.
Ruixiang Xue, Tze San Ong, Assunta Di Vaio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Firms ‘Speak’ Social: Disclosure Posture as a Stable Strategic Communication Construct in ESG Reporting

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why do firms subject to identical ESG reporting requirements nevertheless ‘speak’ the Social pillar in different ways? Some foreground numerical indicators; others rely on narrative accounts of policies, systems and stakeholder engagement. This variation in disclosure form, rather than in disclosure coverage, motivates this exploratory study ...
Laurence L. Delina, Leslie Anne L. Yasis
wiley   +1 more source

Mobile Money and the Economy

, 2020
Mobile money is a recent innovation that provides financial transaction services via mobile phone, including to the unbanked global poor. The technology has spread rapidly in the developing world, “leapfrogging” the provision of formal banking services by solving the problems of weak institutional infrastructure and the cost structure of conventional ...
openaire   +1 more source

Responsible Banking Under Twin Transition: FinTech M&As, ESG Strategy, and Bank Performance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how banking innovation strategies, namely FinTech M&As and ESG practices, affect bank performance under rising competitive pressures and regulatory complexity. Using a unique dataset of 543 listed banks across 49 countries from 2000 to 2023, we analyse whether these strategic investments enhance banks' profitability ...
G. B. Ferilli, Y. Altunbas, E. Palmieri
wiley   +1 more source

Mobile banking and financial inclusion: The regulatory lessons [PDF]

Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service.
Klein, Michael, Mayer, Colin
core  

Weight Bias Internalisation and Health‐Related Quality of Life in Adolescents: What Role Do Family Meals Play?

European Eating Disorders Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Weight bias internalisation (WBI) has been associated with poorer health‐related quality of life (HRQoL), however, evidence in community‐based adolescent samples remains scarce. Family meals have shown protective effects on adolescent health, yet their role in the relationship between WBI and HRQoL has not yet been explored.
Jaume Broto‐Puig, Miriam Latorre‐Millán, Eva Penelo, Anna Bach‐Faig, David Sánchez‐Carracedo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source