This study examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth (GDP) and domestic investment (GDI) in 16 Asia-Pacific countries from 2011 to 2025. It also investigates the influence of FDI on domestic investment, specifically whether FDI produces a crowding...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92387
Background: Climate finance is widely presented as the principal lever for accelerating renewable energy deployment, yet the empirical basis for that claim has not been assembled systematically. Global climate finance reached USD 1.9 trillion in 2023 and renewable energy investme...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92385
This study investigates the nexus between equity market performance, bond market performance, and economic growth in Nigeria using an ARDL model with annual data from 2009 to 2025. This study offers insights into an underexplored area, i.e., the linkage between equity and bond ma...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92384
Aims: The rapid digitisation of retail settlements through real-time payment (RTP) infrastructures such as the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is transforming micro-enterprises across developing economies. However, informal micro-merchants in semi-urban industrial nodes often ex...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92381
This study examines whether IT investment intensity and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance jointly affect firm value in a frontier-market setting. The analysis uses an unbalanced panel of 201 non-financial firms listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange, comprising...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92382
Self-Help Groups (SHGs) are widely used in India as platforms for savings, credit access, livelihood support, and women’s collective action. This retrospective observational study examines reported changes in monthly household income among 535 active female SHG members from five...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92383
India is moving rapidly towards a digital and cashless or less-cash-dependent economy through the Digital India movement. In this journey, various initiatives have been launched by the Government of India, and the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) is one such initiative. It provide...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92379
Knowledge-based capital is increasingly important as a source of economic growth worldwide. As startups and innovation-driven enterprises scale up in the domestic economy, their need for access to capital and markets to monetise their intellectual property (IP) and support busine...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92380
This study examines the performance of India’s organised manufacturing sector during the post-reform period from 1991-92 to 2022-23 using secondary data from the Annual Survey of Industries. Growth patterns were assessed for firms, employment, invested capital, input, output, net...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92378
Sustainable development in resource-dependent economies depends on how infrastructure expansion and trade integration interact with institutional capacity. This study examines the effects of public infrastructure and trade liberalisation on sustainable development in Cameroon and...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92376
Deposit-taking savings and credit cooperative societies (DT-SACCOs) in Kirinyaga County have experienced fluctuating financial performance despite prudential regulation. This study assessed the effect of capital adequacy on the financial performance of DT-SACCOs in Kirinyaga Coun...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92377
Electricity access remains a major development concern in rural Kenya because it shapes household welfare, education, health, enterprise activity, security, and the ability of households to move into more productive livelihoods. This manuscript examined socio-economic determinant...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92375
Against the background of global supply-chain restructuring and intensifying homogenised competition, this study examines whether international standardisation is associated with stronger corporate competitive breakthrough capability among Chinese manufacturing firms. Using panel...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92374
This study examines how Human Capital Efficiency shapes the market value of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria over the 2012–2024 period, a window selected to reflect the post-IFRS reporting era and ensure comparability across firm disclosures. Guided by six research objective...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92373
Background: International management-system certification may function both as an externally auditable signal and as a basis for internal process standardisation. Existing export studies have focused mainly on a single standard or a limited setting, leaving less evidence on annua...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2026/v26i92371