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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

Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies to climate change in Semen Bench District, Southwest Regional State, Ethiopia

Овощи России
Relevance. Climate change is a severe problem in Ethiopia as a whole, but especially in the study area, where people rely on subsistence rain-fed farming.
Endihnew Gibtan Demeke, Mehari Hadush Girmay, Biniam Assefa, Dessalegn Obsi Gemeda   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Compliance: Corporate Governance and the Paradox of Gender Equality: Evidence From EU Firms

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality is central to the European Union's sustainability and corporate governance agenda. While recent EU regulations have intensified expectations around board gender diversity (BGD) and social disclosure, the organisational drivers through which governance quality translates into ...
Suzan Dsouza, Radhika Lakshminarayanan, Suzana Košir   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain and Food Trust: Will Consumers Pay More?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blockchain is increasingly used in agri‐food supply chains to make products more transparent and trustworthy. Yet, in countries like Italy, where certifications such as PDO, PGI, and organic labels already shape consumer confidence, its added value is still unclear.
Federico Modica, Filippo Sgroi, Giusi Giamporcaro, Caterina Sciortino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Strategic Logic of Biodiversity: Why Firms Invest in Nature‐Based Initiatives

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss poses profound strategic and operational challenges for firms, yet management research offers limited evidence on which organisational mechanisms effectively reduce corporate biodiversity impacts. This study introduces the Biodiversity Strategy Configuration Framework (BSCF) to enhance the understanding of firm‐level ...
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

Pairwise likelihood inference for the multivariate ordered probit model

, 2019
This paper provides a closed form expression for the pairwise score vector for the multivariate ordered probit model. This result has several implications in likelihood-based inference. It is indeed used both to speed-up gradient based optimization routines for point estimation, and to provide a building block to compute standard errors and confidence ...
Bravo, Martina, Canale, Antonio
openaire   +2 more sources

Prediction of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Via Multivariate Ordered Probit Models

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2014
SummaryThe assessment of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is of central importance in many areas of research and public policy. Unfortunately, it is quite common for clinical studies to employ different PROMs, thus limiting the comparability of the evidence base that they contribute to.
Conigliani, Caterina, Manca, Andrea, TANCREDI, ANDREA   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Survival benefit and safety evaluation of probiotic supplementation in omicron‐infected patients: Real‐world evidence from a multicenter 12,615‐patient cohort

VIEW, EarlyView.
Probiotic supplements have shown benefits in reducing all‐cause mortality among hospitalized patients with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. Patients with severe illness or without antiviral treatment were more likely to use probiotic supplements. Probiotic supplements may be a promising adjunctive therapy for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.
Mengzhao Yang, Shanshuo Liu, Junyi Sun, Fuwei Wang, Guangyun Zhu, Xinjun Hu, Guowu Qian, Yiqiang Yuan, Hong Luo, Shixi Zhang, Guangming Li, Donghua Zhang, Guotao Li, Zujiang Yu, Zhigang Ren   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing Financial Insufficiency of Households in Turkey with Multivariate Probit Model

Ege Akademik Bakis (Ege Academic Review), 2019
Permanent or particular financial insufficiencies of households cause crucial interruptions on compulsory payments of households. In this study, the determining factors of financial insufficiency of 11918 households that surveyed in TurkStat’s Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC) 2012 are analyzed. The financial insufficiency of households can
SİGEZE, Çiler, UĞUR, Mehmet Sedat
openaire   +4 more sources

Academics’ Career Motivations and External Engagement Activity Amid Conflicting Identifications: An Employee Engagement Perspective

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the motivational foundations of academics’ external engagement within the evolving context of the entrepreneurial university. While prior research has explored specific forms of academic entrepreneurship, broader engagement with external organizations has only recently been recognized as both entrepreneurial and value ...
Samuel Mwaura, Shannon Harris, Dylan Jones‐Evans, Niall G. MacKenzie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source