The extension of the shelf life of food through processing makes food available beyond the shelf-life of fresh agricultural produce, which has implications for food and nutrition security. Food processing creates products for the specified nutritional needs of persons with special nutritional...

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether Brazilian manufacturing firms are credit constrained. We exploit a rich database that contains more than three thousand firms with characteristics that may affect their degree of credit constraint: size, being listed in the Brazilian stock market...

Small states, classified as countries with population barely exceeding 1.5m, encounter special development challenges. Although they share common characteristics of small population and size of land area, they also differ along other characteristics such as geography, remoteness, and dispersion....

To investigate the nexus between the investment development path (IDP) and human development, we modelled the human development (human development index, HDI) using generalized estimation equations and accounted for the unit interval property using non-linear link functions. The gross domestic...