Entrepreneurship has evolved into a valuable tool for facilitating job creation in response to Nigeria's youth bulge and declining job opportunities in the formal sector. This study assessed the impact of entrepreneurship on youths' livelihood, focusing on the National Directorate of Employment...

Purpose This paper aims to estimate the determinants of the intensity of use of financial inclusion by households in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach Due to the reality of a household using one or more financial products or services, this study uses the generalised Poisson model applied to...

The purpose of this paper is to review existing literature on the consequences of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption in Europe with a specific focus on different enforcement environments. Following prior studies, we adopt the critical review approach. We begin the review...

Most contemporary historians have proposed a multitude of supply-side factors that arguably propelled the Great Divergence between the West and the East. A late nineteenth-century economist, George Gunton, instead proposed a demand-centric theory to explain the root cause for the divergence...

In the late twentieth century, the European Union (EU) emerged as a global leader in setting environmental protections, including vehicle emissions standards. But member state consensus around environmental rules did not come easily, and the regional norms eventually set by the EU and its...

Using the difference-in-differences method, we examine the impact of environmental regulation on individual health, employment, income, and welfare. We find that environmental regulation significantly improves health, but reduces employment and wage levels, although the effect on income is not...