...Jabir Ali Purpose This paper empirically analyses the nexus between religiosity, corruption and sustainable development across 52 countries. Design/methodology/approach The data were retrieved from the World Value Survey (WVS) for religiosity and corruption, and the Sustainable Development...

...Vanessa Tchamyou; Ofeh M. Edoh; Simplice Asongu Purpose This study investigates how gender economic inclusion affects sustainable development in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study is focused on 42 African countries for the period 2000–2019. It argues that enhancing gender economic...

... shortsightedness and corporate greed. Originality/value The paper introduces the concept of “fair and just” economic system for sustainable development of humanity and suggests future directions for its realization. The current capitalist economic system – in both theory and practice – has many flaws from...

...Kanupriya Gupta; Rajat Agrawal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between sustainable development (SD) and spirituality. Bhutan, a country believing deeply in Buddhist spiritual values has created a model of Gross National Happiness (GNH) where it is believed...

...Udo E. Simonis The Age of Sustainable Development Jeffrey D.   Sachs Columbia University Press New York, NY 2015 xvii + 543 pp. ISBN: 978-0-231-17315-5 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only --> Economic history Global...

... Water Sustainable development Inequality Gini coefficient Concentration curve Theil index Water is imperative for life on earth. Different parts of the earth are endowed with different quantities of fresh water resources, but human settlements can be seen in varied parts of the world...

... property as a source of fund for Islamic MFIs. Rose Abdullah can be contacted at: mawarmaju@yahoo.com 05 08 2015 07 03 2016 25 03 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Islamic microfinance Sustainable...

... or lactating women. Other conditions may include involvement in the community activities, no child labour and obtaining an identity card. Developing countries Zakat Sustainable development Muslim countries Conditional cash transfer programme I38 J22 H31 Conditional cash transfers (CCTs...

... that has been produced through basic research. In fact, it is basic research that usually provides the foundation for applied research (Calvert, 2006 ; Sherman, 1988). Education Sustainable development It is also worth noting that basic research has no obvious commercial benefit, even if new...

... and begins to decline. Dave Ramsaran can be contacted at: ramsaran@susqu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Local economies Sustainable development Fracking Boom-bust economies Marcellus Shale We used content analysis of articles in the local newspaper (Canton Sentinel...

... Development Economic philosophy/theory Sustainable development Debt culture Global justice Islamic banking/finance Islamic finance has gained attention in light of the ongoing global financial crisis since 2008. In 2009 the Vatican issued a statement urging the world community to take a closer...

... provocative evidence which appears to contradict earlier and more pessimistic accounts and it challenges the ontology about extending member-based microfinance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Social economy Microcredit Cooperatives Sustainable development The poor, who...

... creative”). The majority (“moderns”) is undecided, and there is a group which lags behind (“traditionals”). These groups represent different solutions to the development of a society, and the key to a sustainable development can be found in how the population sees their ideal future...

..., influences economic growth performance; and MDGs, solely or together with economic growth, influence financial development. South Africa has made notable progress in meeting each of the MDGs. These achievements are here described. Developing countries Poverty Sustainable development...

... in the study area. The implication is that involvement in forest and agricultural activities present households in forest communities a viable means for reducing income inequality in the study area. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Income distribution Environmental economics Sustainable...

... economies Sustainable development In 2009, Nobel Laureate in Economics and columnist to New York Times Paul Krugman compared the labour market dynamics in Germany and USA during the latest crisis, ending up with an admiration for the “German job miracle” as he termed the several times smaller job...

.... The members of the cooperatives have also gradually increased. Woldegebrial Zeweld Nugusse can be contacted at: woldezew@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Sustainable development Agricultural economies The agriculture sector is the backbone of the economy...

... and more attractive for sustainable development in Africa. Much more important, perhaps, is the ability of the consensus to appreciate the unique and complex development problems which occur as a consequence of donor deafness on limited rights and conditionalities. In sum, the Beijing Consensus results...

..., challenges to Eastern European development are identified. Findings The main limit to Eastern European sustainable development is not “production capital”, i.e. the availability of natural resources, fixed human‐made capital, and intermediate consumption, but instead shortages of “transaction capital...

... Group Publishing Limited 2009 Algeria Irrigation works Farms Sustainable development Agriculture is a strategic component of Algerian's economy. It represents 25 per cent of the labor force and contributes about 10 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Since the climate...