The Role of Social Entrepreneurship on Economic, Social and Environmental Development: Evidence from the UK, Ahmed Alqaoud, Rashed Alhaimer
Ahmed Alqaoud Central Agency for Public Tenders, Council of Ministers Kuwait Rashed Salem Alhaimer Associate Professor of Marketing, Local Dean, Business Faculty Arab Open University Kuwait Paper type: Case Study Received: 26 May 2023 / Revised: 25 March 2024 / Accepted: 8 April 2024 / Published: 14 November 2024 DOI: 10.47556/J.WJEMSD.20.2.2024.1 Purpose: This study […]
Roadmap to Rebuilding the Sudanese Industrial Sector after the War, Adil Dafa’Alla
Adil Ahmed Dafa’Alla Airbus UK United Kingdom ORCID: 0009-0001-1967-7092 Paper Type: Conceptual Received: 8 May 2025 / Revised: 20 May 2025 / Accepted: 22 May 2025 / Published: 15 May 2026 DOI: 10.47556/B.SUDAN2026.2.11 Purpose: This article highlights some of the huge challenges to rebuilding the industrial sector of Sudan after this damaging war comes to an end. It is also […]
Towards Rebuilding the Industrial Sector of Sudan after the War, Dr Adil Dafa’Alla
Dr Adil Ahmed Dafa’Alla Airbus UK United Kingdom ORCID: 0009-0001-1967-7092 Paper Type: Conceptual Received: 8 May 2025 / Revised: 20 May 2025 / Accepted: 22 May 2025 / Published: 30 May 2025 DOI: 10.47556/J.IJSR.12.1.2025.1 Purpose: This article highlights some of the huge challenges to rebuilding the industrial sector of Sudan after this damaging war comes to an end. It is also […]
Youth employment in Ghana: economic and social development policies perspective, Emmanuel Jumpah, Richard Ampadu-Ameyaw and Johnny Owusu-Arthur
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Richard Ampadu-Ameyaw, Johnny Owusu-Arthur AMED, CSIR-STEPRI, Accra Ghana Email: emmanuel.jumpah@gmail.com DOI: 10.1108/WJEMSD-07-2019-0060 Purpose: Creating employment opportunities for the youth remains a dilemma for policymakers. In many cases, policies and programmes to tackle youth unemployment have produced little results, because such initiatives have failed to consider some fundamental inputs. In Ghana, youth unemployment rate has doubled or more than […]
Poverty reduction in the Arab world: the use of ICTs, Prof. Allam Ahmed and Amer Al‐Roubaie
Prof. Allam Ahmed School of Business, Economics and Management University of Sussex, Brighton UK Middle Eastern Knowledge Economy Institute (MEKEI), Brighton Business School University of Brighton, Brighton UK Email: allam@sussex.ac.uk Amer Al‐Roubaie College of Business and Finance Ahlia University, Manama Bahrain DOI: 10.1108/WJSTSD-02-2013-0014 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess and evaluate the role of […]
Energy consumption, carbon emissions and economic growth in India, Harishankar Vidyarthi
Harishankar Vidyarthi Department of Management Studies National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad India Email: harishankar.vid@gmail.com DOI: 10.1108/WJSTSD-07-2013-0024 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the long run and causal relationship between energy consumption, carbon emissions and economic growth in India over the period 1971-2009 within multivariate framework. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses the […]
Prospects for transition to a knowledge-based economy in the Arab region, Prof. Samia Nour
Prof. Samia Satti Osman Mohamed Nour Department of Economics King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah Saudi Arabia Email: samia_satti@hotmail.com DOI: 10.1108/WJSTSD-07-2014-0017 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges and opportunities for the transition to a knowledge-based economy in the Arab region. Design/methodology/approach: Both descriptive and comparative approaches are used, together with the framework and […]
Knowledge transfer for sustainable development: East-West collaboration?, Prof. Amer Al-Roubaie and Prof. Shafiq Alvi
Prof. Amer Al-Roubaie College of Business and Finance Ahlia University, Manama Bahrain Email: aalroubaie@ahlia.edu.bh Prof. Shafiq Alvi Concordia University, Montreal Canada DOI: 10.1108/WJSTSD-06-2014-0007 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential impact that collaboration between East and West could have on sustainable development. Greater emphasis in this paper will be placed on the benefit […]
Responding to climate change through joint partnership: Insights from the Okavango Delta of Botswana, Dr. Oluwatoyin Kolawole, Dr. Piotr Wolski, Prof. Barbara Ngwenya, Dr. Gagoitseope Mmopelwa and Dr. Olekae Thakadu
Dr. Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole, Prof. Barbara Ngwenya, Dr. Olekae Thakadu Okavango Research Institute University of Botswana, Maun Botswana Email: tkolawole@ori.ub.bw Dr. Piotr Wolski Okavango Research Institute University of Botswana, Maun Botswana Climate System Analysis Group University of Cape Town, Cape Town South Africa Dr. Gagoitseope Mmopelwa Okavango Research Institute University of Botswana, Maun Botswana Department of Environmental Sciences University of […]
The identity crisis of sustainable development, Dr. Catalin Ratiu and Prof. Beverlee Anderson
Dr. Catalin Ratiu, Prof. Beverlee B. Anderson California State University, San Marcos, California USA Email: cratiu@csusm.edu DOI: 10.1108/WJSTSD-08-2013-0033 Purpose: There are many different conceptualizations to sustainable development and these different approaches may have led to confusion amongst the public. The purpose of this paper is to explore the identities of the term and how the confused identity […]