International Journal of Development Issues: Volume 21 Issue 1

Effectiveness of non-farm diversification on rural household income – evidence and policy implications from India

Shreya Kapoor, Sanjeev Kapoor

Doubling farming households’ income through occupational diversification to the non-farm sector has been advocated to be of paramount importance in an agrarian economy such as…

Can altcoins become viable alternatives to African fiat currencies?

Seyram Pearl Kumah, Jones Odei-Mensah

The paper aims to examine the asymmetric response of three major altcoins to shocks in six African fiat currencies in a time-frequency space.

Gender socialization – an inhibitor of potential in capable poor urban women: a review on capability perspective in Malaysia

Parthiban S. Gopal, Gayathri Sathyanarayanan

The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the severe impact on the abilities of urban poor women such as education skills, entrepreneurship qualities, employment skills, creative…

Does bribing lead to extra convenience or is it a barrier to longitudinal growth? Empirical evidence from South American Firms

Ruohan Wu

This paper aims to study how firms’ longitudinal and dynamic growth will be affected by their bribing decisions to address the controversies existing in the extant literature on…

Examining stakeholder’s contribution and developing a framework for food banking implementation in Ghana

Nicholas Oppong Mensah, Jeffery Kofi Asare, Ernest Christlieb Amrago, Anthony Donkor, Frank Osei Tutu, Emmanuella Owusu Ansah

This paper aims to ascertain stakeholder’s willingness to contribute towards food banking implementation and further develops a framework for implementing food banks in developing…

Do “inferior” jobs always suffer from a wage penalty? Evidence from temporary workers in Cambodia and Pakistan

Thanh-Tam Nguyen-Huu

This paper aims to investigate the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers in Pakistan and Cambodia.

Economic complexity and price competitiveness dependence: empirical evidence using panel models

Guilherme Magacho, Rafael Ribeiro, Igor Rocha

As economies with high economic complexity and productive capabilities may easily adapt their productive structure due to product differentiation and innovation, the central…

Environmental impact assessment of CPEC: a way forward for sustainable development

Iram Khalid, Tooba Ahmad, Sami Ullah

Human-induced changes in climate have affected the environment to the extent that any more economic development at the cost of the environment will be too costly. Thus…