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Director Expertise and Compliance to Corporate Social Responsibility Regulations

Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue This paper investigates whether assigning CSR‐specific expertise to the board committee legally responsible for CSR improves compliance with mandatory CSR law and shapes how firms organize that compliance. Research Findings/Insights Using Indian listed companies subject to mandatory CSR regulation, we find that CSR ...
Swarnodeep Homroy, Wentao Li, Nassima Selmane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indian deindustrialization revisited: New data, estimates, and interpretations

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The fate of the handloom cotton textile industry is one of the most debated topics in the economic history of India. This paper presents novel employment estimates for cotton textile handweaving and spinning in the period 1800–1940. I put together plausible values for labour productivity and combine these with aggregate input usage to generate
Alexander Nagar
wiley   +1 more source

Using SARIMA Modeling and Forecasting of Metrological Parameters: A Conceptual Framework

Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies
Objective: The current study aims to predict the metrological factor of temperature in the region of Karachi Methodology: using the Seasonal Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model. Daily maximum and minimum temperature data from the
Misbah Rashid, Muhammad Imran Afzal, Muhammad Arsalan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender Justice in the Triple Planetary Crisis: A Scoping Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To identify and report how gender justice is conceptualised and discussed in contemporary health literature in relation to the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, with a particular focus on the experiences of women and gender‐diverse populations, and the representation of nurses and other healthcare ...
Catelyn Richards, Micah Peters, Julia Charalambous, Lila Singh‐Peterson, Lucy Osborn, Aletha Ward, Jessica LeClair, Tracy Levett‐Jones   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Evolving Flood Patterns and Associated Damages Across Pakistan

International Journal of Emerging Engineering and Technology
This paper presents a comprehensive analytical review of the evolving spatio-temporal patterns of floods and associated damages across Pakistan. Understanding these evolving patterns is essential for improving flood risk management and minimizing ...
Muhammad Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Wajeeh Ul Hassan Raza   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
wiley   +1 more source

IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE ON POVERTY REDUCTION IN SOUTHERN PUNJAB PAKISTAN

Abstract Microfinance has been adopted by several developing nations to raise their inhabitants' standards of living. It also contributes to their improved economic growth. Pakistan is now implementing this idea and seeing positive results from microfinance. In Pakistan, Khushhali Bank is a notable player in the microfinance industry.
RAJAB HUSSAIN, Dr. ROOHI AHMED
openaire   +2 more sources

Regional Changes in the Sequence of Cotton Leaf Curl Multan Betasatellite

Viruses, 2014
Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) in Pakistan and northwestern India is caused by monopartite begomoviruses in association with an essential, disease-specific satellite, Cotton leaf curl Multan betasatellite (CLCuMB).
Sohail Akhtar, Muhammad Nouman Tahir, Ghulam Rasool Baloch, Shaista Javaid, Ali Qaiser Khan, Imran Amin, Rob W. Briddon, Shahid Mansoor   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Institutions Shape the Effects of Agricultural Cooperatives on Their Members

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural cooperatives represent a promising way of improving the quality of life of half a billion smallholders, who account for the vast majority of the world's food production. Yet, little is known about the institutional factors that explain the potential benefits of being a member of a cooperative.
Simon Cornée, Madeg Le Guernic, Damien Rousselière   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevailing Factors of Subjugation in Chan's The School for Good Mothers

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature
The current study aims to investigate the oppression and injustice in a dystopian society that subjugates the feminine figure in Chan's The School for Good Mothers.
Huda Irshad Siddiqui, Wajiha Bakhtiyar
doaj   +2 more sources