Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...

Purpose: Finance is crucial to boosting agricultural development in developing countries. This paper aims to investigate the effects of rural formal and informal financial access on agricultural technical efficiency (TE) in China. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the survey data of...

Evolutionary games can model dilemmas for which cooperation can exist in rational populations. According to intuition, memory of the history can help individuals to overcome the dilemma and increase cooperation. However, here we show that no such general predictions can be made for dilemma games...

Multifunctional nanoagents with simultaneous bioimaging and photothermal/chemodynamic/drug-delivering functions have great advantages in synergistic cancer theranostic, but the design and preparation of such nanoagents remain challenging. Herein, with porous Cu-based metal-organic framework...