Across many countries, young adults face a persistent skills mismatch, with firms reporting difficulty finding candidates with adequate soft skills. In Rwanda, young women face particularly acute barriers to securing employment. This study evaluates a two-week intensive soft skills training...

The convergence of energy and mobility has given rise to customer-centric business models for solar-powered mobility and business models that connect charging to the dynamics of the energy market. While the current focus is largely on two iconic business models - home charging with privately...

Globally, the agri-food system is facing an increasingly complex and volatile risk landscape. Traditional risks, related to production, markets, finances, and others, are now compounded by climate change, geopolitical instability, pandemics, and digital vulnerabilities. These evolving threats...

Solutions for sustainability through peri-urbanization processes delves into the multifaceted challenges and opportunities arising from urban development and peri-urbanization processes, offering a nuanced understanding of how environmental transformations are reshaping urban landscapes. By...

I study a formal mechanism that can sustain Pareto optimality in a new and very broad class of dilemma games. In the absence of a central authority that could enforce multilateral agreements, the mechanism is based on binding unilateral commitments, which condition a playerís (possibly...