This chapter discusses AI from the prism of an automated process for the organization of data, and exemplifies the role that explainability has to play in moving from the current generation of AI systems to the next one, where the role of humans is lifted from that of data annotators working for...

Recognizing that humans inhabit Earth with multiple others and that humans have worsened opportunities for life on Earth calls for a reassessment of the research practices through which the world is explored. The development of more-than-human methodologies is underway, as reflected in the...

Feminist action research in MOS puts feminist principles into practice by intrinsically connecting scholarly knowledge production and social change. Feminist action research can be applied within different research epistemologies, but is particularly suitable for critical research agendas. It...

Financial access describes the degree to which a consumer has ownership and use of safe, affordable, relevant, and convenient financial products and services. Factors that promote financial access include low cost, low fee products with attractive features from formal financial institutions that...

Creative entrepreneurship is a vital concept that revolves around setting up a business that is novel, thoughtful, lucrative, and yet compassionate. The global pandemic has made people realise the significance and importance of creative entrepreneurship. Self-help groups (SHGs) play a pivotal...

The concept of frugal innovation (FI) helps us to better understand situations and contexts in which something less can actually be something more. This ‘something more’ typically becomes possible because the scarcity of resources may stimulate innovative thinking. Frugal innovators use...

Fiscal rules have been on the rise worldwide since the 1990s, highlighting the urgent need for sound public finance. Since the turn of the century furthermore, the issue of government efficiency has stimulated public debate and given rise to numerous indicators. Does government efficiency lead...