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The Middle East conflict challenges resilience in Asia and the Pacific

2026

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Special issue on: interdisciplinary research of energy application, governance, and policy for sustainability, part 1

2026

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Women's empowerment and nutrition : evidence from rural households in Africa and Asia

Maina, Cecilia Chemeli; Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; … - 2026

framework and examples from different countries, we show that development initiatives, such as promoting agricultural …

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Cooperation under comparison

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2026

We establish a new approach to the modeling of cooperation, and we formulate a new solution concept for cooperative games. We do this by constructing a game of cooperation between individuals who exhibit distaste for relative deprivation, RD, in the sense that they experience stress when their...

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Spousal cooperation and agricultural technology adoption

Ndip, Francis E.; Maina, Cecilia - 2026

Adoption of agricultural technologies is crucial for sustainable development, yet adoption of many relevant …

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Urban sprawl and rurbanization : implications for dietary quality in Malawi

Kafotokoza, Joshua; Ameye, Hannah; Qaim, Matin - 2026

Urbanization contributes to changing food environments in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the implications for people's diets and nutrition remain insufficiently understood. Using four waves of nationally representative panel data from Malawi (2010-2019), we examine how local urbanization is associated...

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An inquiry into labor conditions across key rural sectors in Africa

Nzira, Jackson Elias; Parlasca, Martin Christoph; Qaim, … - 2025

While agriculture remains a key source of livelihoods in rural Africa, employment in other economic sectors is gaining in importance. However, details of the labor conditions are under-researched. Here, we examine labor conditions in different sectors of the rural economy using survey data from...

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Impact of super apps on the nutrition transition in low- and middle-income countries : evidence from Indonesia

Elmira, Elza Samantha; Suryahadi, Asep - 2025

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing a nutrition transition from traditional diets to high-energy, processed foods, increasing non-communicable disease risks. Digitalization of food systems plays a significant role in shaping this transition. This paper investigates the...

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On a transformation of the Gini coefficient into a well-behaved social welfare function

Stark, Oded - 2025

Following Sen's (1973) characterization of the Gini coefficient as a ratio between a measure of aggregate income-based stress ("depression" in Sen's terminology) and aggregate income, we transform the Gini coefficient into a social welfare function rather than having the Gini coefficient feature...

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Stark, Oded - 2025

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Agrivoltaics increases public acceptance of solar energy production on agricultural land

Zeddies, Hendrik Hilmar; Parlasca, Martin Christoph; … - 2025

Competition for land is a key challenge for decarbonized energy transitions. Open-space solar energy farms are gaining in importance but have large land requirements and displace agricultural production. Agrivoltaics offers a compromise, integrating solar panels into existing farming operations....

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