Large volumes of e-waste collected under formal schemes in high-income countries are still processed informally in developing ones, despite continuous policy efforts to reverse this trend. This paper shows that the persistence of informal e-waste processing is a consequence of how global waste...

The need for developing countries to increase their domestic revenue has always been relevant, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, which weakened their public finances. This paper analyses the dynamic treatment effects of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)...

E-government adoption rates in emerging economies remain persistently low despite substantial infrastructure investments. Understanding adoption drivers requires synthesizing fragmented empirical evidence on technology acceptance and service quality factors across diverse contexts. Purpose: This...

This paper critically reviews the role of good governance in advancing sustainable development in developing countries. Framed around the themes of fields, failures, and future, it synthesizes theoretical and empirical research on governance across key domains such as education, healthcare,...

This study attempts to investigate the historical and economic narratives, highlighting missed points in the comprehension of globalization and the effects on present-day labor markets in developing countries - India and Nigeria, between 1990 and 2023. The study fills a noticeable gap in the...

Corporate team unity and role clarity are crucial for organizational success and human resources. This study examines how job clarity affects employee performance and innovative work behavior (IWB) via organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Additionally, to determine how artificial...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into e-government promises to transform public service delivery, efficiency, and transparency. This study investigates the required critical implementation capacities in e-government/AI integration in developing countries. Although there is a...

This paper shows that global inflation dynamics have a sizable regional component. Using a balanced panel of 61 countries that starts in 1970, we document that while the global factor, defined as the dominant principal component, explains a large portion of inflation variation in advanced...

This study focuses on exploring the nature of inter-organizational learning and the types of knowledge that are transferred/shared between foreign multinational companies (MNCs) and their local partner firms within international interfirm alliances in developing countries, particularly those...

The effects of trade unions on firm performance are theoretically ambiguous. The sizable empirical literature on their effects is almost exclusively confined to developed countries, particularly those in North America and Europe. We contribute to the literature by estimating union effects on...

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the tax burden on the mobile telecommunications sector across twenty-nine African countries, encompassing both general taxation and sector-specific levies. To conduct this assessment, we develop a model of a representative mobile network operator,...

Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are government-owned entities that play an increasingly important role in supporting private sector projects in developing countries. This paper synthesizes key findings from the academic and grey literature to provide a comprehensive understanding of...

The volatility of exchange rates is considered to be an important measure of a country's economic vulnerability and has a direct or indirect causal relationship with a large number of macroeconomic variables. The aim of this study is to analyze the macroeconomic variables in the economic...

Analysis of the international network of double tax treaties reveals a large potential for tax avoidance. Developing countries are, on average, not more likely to suffer from tax revenue losses than other countries. Yet, this average masks the fact that several countries, such as Bangladesh,...

Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are important for economic growth and development. Yet insufficient attention has been paid to psychological characteristics such as personality characteristics as factors for women entrepreneurship in emerging economies. This study aims to investigate the...

This study discovers the link between financial inclusion and energy poverty in developing nations, an area often overlooked. Using a theoretical framework, it investigates optimal associations by analyzing panel data from 45 developing countries from 2004 to 2023. Key variables include...

This study examines the relationship between the Search Volume Index (SVI) and FDI outflow levels and tests whether the level of national culture, particularly whether the Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI), moderates such a relationship. The authors document that SVI is positively associated...

Background: This study investigates how varying levels of digital interoperability affect coordination and performance in Indonesia's decentralized air cargo system, reflecting the inefficiencies typical of fragmented digital infrastructures in developing economies. Methods: An Agent-Based Model...

We study the effects that the introduction of the Global Minimum Tax (GMT) has from the perspective of developing countries. Our model features two asymmetric host countries for FDI that compete with each other for the location of multinational firms, and simultaneously fight profit shifting to...

The risks posed by issuing debt denominated in a foreign currency are well understood: if the domestic currency depreciates, the local currency cost of servicing such debt will increase. But what has been the recent experience of developing countries? This paper provides a quantitative...

This study explores the effect of government spending on FDI inflows in developing country groups by different level of development. The United Nations' country classification by income level is used to classify country level of development. The study covers a sample of 100 developing countries...