...Ibrahim Shittu; Abdul Rais Abdul Latiff; Siti 'Aisyah Baharudin Purpose The study investigates the effect of uncertainty on gender equality and examines the policies and institutional qualities that matter for mitigating the effect. Design/methodology/approach The research employs...

...Nghi Huu Phan; Van Do Bui; Loan Thi Quynh Nguyen Purpose This study investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), specifically focusing on two components of FDI: greenfield investment and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M...

.../approach A dynamic autoregressive distributed lag regression model is employed to analyse the relationship from 1990 to 2020. Based on the theory of multiplier effect, the analysis could examine the positive and negative changes in policy uncertainty, as well as the reliability in macroeconomic activities...

... 2015 27 01 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Uncertainty Development Efficiency Enforcement Institutions and institutional analysis World Bank and IMF policies have failed to bring African nations out...

... characteristics such as race, ethnicity or gender” (Altonji and Blank, 1999, p. 3168). Again, following the more synthetic OECD (2008b, p. 140) definition, it is the “unequal treatment of equally productive individuals only because they belong to a specific group”. Gender gap Uncertainty Comparative...

... and revising plans. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Government Co‐ordination Economic growth Uncertainty In 1920, A.C. Piqou argued that, because of the divergence between marginal social net product and marginal private net product, government intervention, either through taxes or through...

... a minimum scale for its effects to be apparent. Diffusion Farming Information Land use Sustainable development Uncertainty The National Landcare Program in Australia started with the premise that land degradation in agriculture could be solved by awareness‐raising and education programs...

...Roman A. Ohrenstein; Barry Gordon In any environment which allows for individual and group enterprise, some degree of risk as well as elements of uncertainty and expectation will be features of virtually every human endeavour. These three decision‐making categories are especially relevant where...