The article examines the intervention of World Maritime Bodies like United Nation (UN), International Maritime Organization (IMO), International Labor Organization (ILO) and its various associated NGOs/Independent organizations in increasing the participation of women in maritime sector. The...

Can citizen-led protests lead to meaningful economic redistribution and nudge governments to increase redistributive efforts of fiscal resources? We study the effects of protests on fiscal redistribution using evidence from Nigeria. We digitized twenty-six years of public finance data from 1988...

This piece investigates if and how principles of data trusts might apply to “Decentralised Autonomous Organisations” (DAOs) as a data governance structure for digital data trusts. In data trusts, a legal entity is appointed as the trustee to act on behalf of the contributors and...

The world has been changing and developing rapidly with advanced technology and the enhancement of humans’ living standards. Economics is one of the disciplines that works to define “development,” determine nations’ current stage of development, and design policies to work effectively...

Capacity development is one of the IMF’s core activities. Its impact is monitored through a Results-Based Management framework. Using for the first time the resulting dataset, the paper investigates how the likelihood of achieving targeted outcomes correlates with macroeconomic conditions and...

We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923—an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...

This study assess the impact of a classroom-based positive psychology intervention on improving academic performance by conducting a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) with 899 school-aged children (10-14) years across 29 schools in Pakistan. The study finds limited evidence that the RCT had an...

The need of organization and the importance of internal control in a credit institution, which would guarantee high level of reliability corresponding to the nature and scale of operations carried out, is enshrined in Russian legislation. The key aspect of internal control in a credit...

This work contains an overview of national and foreign authors working in the field of innovation ecosystems management. It presents components of the model of innovation ecosystem management, a set of compulsory elements of the model, the basic principles and functional components of the model

Government bureaucracies in low- and middle-income countries often suffer from both corruption and slow public-service delivery. Can an information system – providing information about delays to the responsible bureaucrats and their supervisors – improve delivery speed? Paying bribes for...