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Declining Employment in Water Conservation: An Analysis of Water Management Programs in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Namita Toppo · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

This article examines the relationship between water conservation efforts and employment generation in the Ranchi district of Jharkhand, India, over a four-year period from 2020-21 to 2023-24. The Department of Rural Development, Government of Jharkhand, provides secondary data t...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i3973

An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Cash Flow, Stock Returns, and Capital Structure on Investment Decisions in Cigarette Sub-Sector Manufacturing Companies Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange

A. Mustika Amin · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

Aims: This study aims to determine the effect of Cash Flow (CF), Stock Returns (SR) and Capital Structure (CS) on Investment Decisions (ID) in cigarette sub-sector manufacturing companies on IDX. Study Design: The method used is an associative method with a quantitative approach....

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i3971

Unraveling the Black Box: The Nexus between Sustainable HR Management Practices and Sustainable Performance

Hanan Ghanim Mekhur, Sattar Kadim Hachim Almrshed, Oday Jabbar abed, Yousif Mousa Sabti & Ali Saud Bisheen · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

In solving the triple-bottom-line concept of sustainability, which encompasses the concerns of the modern world, corporations are increasingly incorporating principles of sustainability into their strategies; yet, this presents challenges for the manufacturing industry with limit...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i3970

The Impact of the Karo-Langkat Bypass Road Development on Land Cover Dynamics and Suitability Evaluation

Aramico, Erwin Nyak Akub & Nurdin Sulistyono · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

The construction of the 44.85 km Karo-Langkat bypass road, which traverses critical conservation areas such as Mount Leuser National Park and the Bukit Barisan Forest Park, has significantly improved accessibility and economic development in Karo and Langkat Regencies. However, t...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i3969

Socio-Cultural Transformation of a Village Community in the 21st Century: A Case of Bangladesh

Iqbal Husain · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

For a very long period, both the Indian subcontinent and Bangladesh's rural societies remained unchanging and stagnant. However, these societies have undergone significant transformation since the mid-20th century. Since the 1990s, this process of change has quickened. The media,...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i3967

Impact of Foreign Direct Investment, Export, Import and Inflation on Economics Growth in India: An Empirical Analysis

Vidyasagar Selvaraj Singaram, Waseem Ahmad, Mohammad Shareef, Shakeel Akther & Nargis Akhter Wani · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

This study investigates the impact of FDI, trade components, and inflation on India's economic growth. The research employs the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing technique to examine long and short-term co-integration, and the Error Correction Model (ECM) is us...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i3965

Quality of Chinese Agricultural Products Exported to Japan 2001-2017: Econometric Descriptive Nested Logit Analysis

Yinguo Dong, Jingwen Li & Lijuan Pu · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

Improving the quality of agricultural products is a key issue that needs to be urgently addressed in China's agricultural development. The top market for China's agricultural exports is Japan, so the quality of agricultural products exported to Japan is directly related to the ov...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i2963

Rural Migration and Income Inequality in South Asian Countries: An Econometric Descriptive Analysis

Jamil Ahmad, Abukasim & Abid Hussain · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

The United Nations projects that by 2050, over 64% of Asian regions would be urban. Moreover, during the last few decades, several nations and regions have seen a rise in economic disparity owing to migration. Others find a non-linear link between rural migration and income dispa...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i3964

A Study on The Socio-economic Status of Street Vegetable Vendors in Sambalpur City

Bhumisuta Bhoi & Nibedita Sahoo · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

Aims: Street vending is an essential activity in informal/unorganized sectors in most underdeveloped and developing countries. Street vendors play a vital role in the urban informal economy. In most of the cities in India, generally, poor people prefer street vending as their occ...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i2961

Socio-economic Transformation and its Impact on Community-based Development: A Case Study of Moncongloe Village, Maros Regency

Ali Hanafi & Nurhayati Jafar · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

Community-based development is one of the strategies to empower local communities in facing socioeconomic challenges. This study aims to analyze the influence of socioeconomic transformation on the sustainability of community-based development in Moncongloe Village, Maros Regency...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i2962

Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation in ASEAN-10 Countries: An Econometric Descriptive Analysis

Bidisha Bhakta & Susobhan Maiti · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

The linkage between GDP growth and CO2 emissions is studied in this research among the ASEAN-10 countries, as for the gradual economic growth received by the ASEAN economy; we need to analyze the complex and nonlinear relationship between the environmental indicator CO2 and econo...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i2958

Mediating and Non-mediating Factors Influencing Couples and Non-couples’ Cooperative Membership: Modelling Behaviors of Actors in Selected States of Nigeria

Sallawu, H., Gbadamosi, Y. O., Adebayo, P. D., Adama, U. J., Ugochukwu, I. S., Salami, S. O., Shehu, M. & Nmadu, J. N. · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

Aims: Analyzing mediating and non-mediating factors influencing cooperative membership among couples and non-couples in addition to addressing gaps in understanding motivations and barriers so as to provide insights for tailored policies and effective cooperative models to enhanc...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i2959

Contemporary Bangladesh: An Econometric Descriptive Analysis of Social Media Shaping Narratives, Gen-Z Identity, and Political Engagement

Md. Memon Ali & Md. Al-Amin · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

This research discusses how social media is drastically changing the face of identity and political involvement for Gen-Z in Bangladesh, drawing on different social theories. It focuses on the shift from dominant meta-narratives to the shift to personalized micro-narratives drive...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i2960

Economic Slowdown in China: Lessons for India’s Foreign Economic Policy

Ajay Kumar Mishra & Shraddha Rishi · South Asian Journal of Social Studies and Economics · 2025

Economic data from China over the past years indicates the slumping GDP growth rate, elevated unemployment, rising deflation, and the sustained pace of trade surplus. It shows that all is not well with the world’s second-largest economy. The present study will examine the perform...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/sajsse/2025/v22i2957