Landslides represent one of the world’s most dangerous and widespread risks, annually causing thousands of deaths and billions of dollars worth of damage. Building on and around hilly areas in many regions has increased, and it poses a severe threat to the physical infrastructure and people...

Predicting the sustainability of a business is crucial to prevent financial losses among shareholders and investors. This study attempts to evaluate the Altman model for predicting corporate failure in distressed and non-distressed Malaysian companies based on the data of financially troubled...

There are many market segmentations in the credit card industry in Malaysia. One of the special categories of credit card is dedicated to the women group only and promoted as a tool for increasing women empowerment, women entrepreneurship development and women financial access ability....

This research assesses the influence of hosting major international sporting competitions on the host countries’ stock market performance before and after the announcement of such events. Specifically, this study explores whether stock markets of hosting countries experience cumulative average...

Universally, as a key and essential driver of accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) are recognized as a fundamental ingredients (Anand and Kedia 2015). There is a growing appreciation that in a multifarious ways, STI can drive inclusive...

The concept of green energy has come to the fore as a strategic sustainable energy formation process for the whole world since last three decades, but it has gained enormous interest during recent years. Green Energy is referred to clean sources of energy that generates lower environmental...

Fair Trade (FT) is a societal movement that aims to support poor and vulnerable producers in developing nations to attain improved trading conditions with direct link to consumers and excluding mediators in the trading chain (Young and Utting 2005). Therefore FT allows poor producers to be part...

As clearly defined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), children's rights entails a conceptual method and guide towards recognising the children as the rightful holders of universally accepted rights just like other human beings (UNCRC, 1989). It is generally...

Global economic change includes economic restructuring, globalisation, technological changes, changes in labour market institutions, and spread of World culture and ideas. Though, the term inequality is very subjective, here inequality indicates the state of not being equal, regarding in rights,...

Debt is created when having to pay back a loan is greater than the opportunities to make a profit or some form of financial security, and this is no different when a state's socio-economic growth depends on the resources required (Nicu 2011). Resources from foreign markets can be either consumed...