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Assessment of food security among households in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: Evidence from General Household Survey, 2014
Ebenezer Toyin Megbowon, Abbyssinia MushunjeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze food security status and its determinants among households in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Does gender disparity in financial literacy still persist after retirement? Evidence from Ghana
Anokye M. Adam, Mavis Opoku Boadu, Siaw FrimpongThe purpose of this paper is to examine the gender disparity in financial literacy among retirees in the Cape Coast metropolis in Ghana.
Mobile money adoption and spending behaviour: the case of students in Ghana
Georgina Maku Cobla, Eric Osei-AssibeyThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how the use of the mobile money technology among students affects their spending behaviour.
Traditional institutions and female labor force participation: The effect of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in West Bengal
Arghya Kusum MukherjeeIn general, the return from participation in MNREGA will be highest for those women whose mobility and social interaction is least impeded by conservative social norms. However…
Mobile banking behavior and flow experience: An integration of utilitarian features, hedonic features and trust
Dariyoush Jamshidi, Yousef Keshavarz, Fazlollah Kazemi, Moghaddaseh MohammadianMobile banking or m-banking enables consumers to carry out their banking affairs with the help of mobile devices. Mobile-user banking interactions in the context of technology…
Growth of urban farm employment in Tamil Nadu
Balu AnthonyThe purpose of this paper is to examine the structure of employment in the most urbanized state in India during the period 1983-2010. The paper also analyses the determinants of…
Socio-economic and institutional factors underlying efficiency of smallholder vegetable farms in Southwest region of Cameroon
Yannick Djoumessi, Victor Afari-Sefa, Cyrille Bergaly Kamdem, Jean-Claude BidogezaThe purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of vegetable farmers within the tree-crop based rainforest agro-ecological zone in Southwest region of Cameroon.
Country-level macro-corporate governance and the outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from China
Tong Tong, Tarlok Singh, Bin LiChina’s outward foreign direct investment (ODI) has become a recent phenomenon in that China is now rated as the world’s third largest country for ODI. Previous studies have found…
The comparative exploration of mobile money services in inclusive development
Simplice Asongu, Ndemaze AsonguThe purpose of this paper is to respond to some challenges in the transition to sustainable development goals by examining the correlations between mobile and inclusive…
Farm types and adoption of proven innovative practices in smallholder bean farming in Angonia district of Mozambique
Clifton Makate, Marshall Makate, Nelson MangoImproving the adoption rates of proven innovative practices in bean farming and their impacts on livelihoods requires persistent promotion of practices, complemented by rigorous…
Waqf, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and maqasid al-shariah
Mohammad AbdullahThis paper attempts to contextualise the potential role of waqf (plural; awqaf, Islamic perpetual trust) in the contemporary world, particularly, in the developmental arena. The…
Financial literacy among youth
Neha Garg, Shveta SinghThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the level of financial literacy among youth in the world based on previous studies. The study, particularly, focus at how socio-economic…
Social capital and fiscal performance in India during 1991-2012
Soumyananda DindaThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between social capital and fiscal performance using provincial sub-national state-level data in India during 1991-2012…
Measuring social performance: reconciling the tension between commercial and social logics
A.K. Siti-Nabiha, Zubir Azhar, Salmi Mohd Isa, A.Z. Siti-NazariahThe purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of microfinance programs in three Malaysian development finance institutions (DFIs). Its main concerns revolve around…
The current behavioural patterns witnessed of the customers/clients/players in the personal real estate market in Sri Lanka
Vidanage Pemananda KarunaratneAlthough the personal real estate market business seems to be an upcoming flourishing economic venture in Sri Lanka, the intellectual investigator could invariably visualize a…
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