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Background Supportive supervision is widely used to improve malaria case management, but it is a complex intervention whose effects depend on how supervision is organised, resourced, perceived and embedded in routine health systems. Realist...
This study provided an original contribution focusing on the perspectives of both emerging adults and their parents in Turkey (1) to examine if identity formation in emerging adults differs depending on whether they live with or without their...
This article introduces Human Nature Developmentalism (HND), a normative framework that views human beings as creative purposive agents and assesses the moral permissibility of biomedical interventions based on their contribution to human...
Globalisation has encouraged firms to adopt internationalisation strategies, with franchising emerging as a practical pathway for market entry, business growth and competitiveness in developing economies. This study investigates the motivations and...
The importance of financial repression to the financial development in Pakistan appears to be well recognized. A large body of theoretical and empirical research focused on the macroeconomic determinants of financial development. However, earlier...
Research on disasters and extreme events often focuses more on hazards and less on how people change their behavior to prepare for these hazards. However, a better understanding of why people might be hesitant to take action and prepare for...
Startups contribute to entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, and economic development, but their sustainable development depends on adapting their business models to changing life cycle requirements. Drawing on Amit and Zott’s...
We consider whether the evolution of inequality in a large population game generates a Kuznets inverted-U curve. There are different types of agents, based on the cost of using a technology. Agents migrate and change their type, either by moving to...
The theory of the “three paradigms of manufacturing development” is derived from a systematic analysis of the evolution of manufacturing precision and controllable feature size. It posits that Manufacturing Paradigm III is grounded in quantum theory...
This study examines how entrepreneurship, banking system stability, and environmental sustainability jointly influence economic development in Nigeria. It addresses the limited integration of these relationships in prior studies by providing a...
Age-associated weight gain is commonly attributed to behavioral or metabolic changes. We propose the completion gap framework, in which meal-completion requirements and physiological energy demand are only partially coupled. Persistent mismatch...
This study examines the dynamic effects of political stability and democracy on economic development in South Asia from 1994 to 2024. Prior literature explored an uneven and mixed impact of governance and democracy on economic growth. This study...
What encourages people to settle together in a hierarchical pattern in rural societies? Traditional accounts of settlement hierarchy, including central place theory and rank-size laws, are insufficient, as they overlook the productive rationality...
Microenterprises in the developing world play a significant role in employment, income, and economic growth. However, research shows that microenterprises fail to grow because they are focused on survival rather than growth and lack an...
This article develops a systemic theory of scientific discovery as a conceptual framework. Its central hypothesis is that a scientific idea is not explained by an isolated mind alone and is more likely to emerge when a field has reached a level of...
Across Ghana’s inner cities, aging and underutilized houses persist amid a traditional leasehold system that creates tenure insecurity and financing barriers to upgrades. This paper examines how these insecurities shape, or are likely to shape,...
Can development initiatives unfold into disaster? This study examines how well-intentioned yet haphazard infrastructure expansion in rural Nepal—including roads, hydropower, and rapid construction—promises progress while paradoxically redistributing...
Against the backdrop of economic globalization, the flow-based economy has become the dominant theme of the era, driving cities of different scales to interact and respond, intertwining into complex urban network structures, leading to divergent...
With the help of relevant historical data, this paper analyzes the characteristics and dominant factors of the spatiotemporal evolution of the urban system in China’s Grand Canal during various historical periods to summarize the unique laws...
Journal
The Journal of Economic Growth, is designed to serve as the principal outlet for theoretical as well as empirical research in economic growth and...
The European Journal of Development Research (EJDR) redefines and modernises what global development is, recognisingthe many schools of thought on...
The journal aims to provide an international forum for a new approach to economics. Following the tradition of Joseph A. Schumpeter, it is designed...
