Comprehending the dynamic between globalisation and economic growth in low-income nations is vital to understanding how they navigate growth trajectories whilst addressing global concerns. This study examined the nexus between globalisation and its financial, social, and political facets in relation to growth in fourteen low-income nations. The analysis spanned over five decades and the Wavelet Coherence and Granger Causality methodologies. The findings revealed a bidirectional causal relationship between globalisation and growth in Rwanda, unidirectional causal flows in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Uganda. A bidirectional relationship between economic integration and growth was identified in Burkina Faso. Possible policy actions aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have been developed, focusing on the country-specific dynamics of each nation. These policy recommendations comprise introducing incentives for foreign investments in Rwanda and liberalising trade in Burkina Faso to reinforce economic globalisation. The study also recommends the expansion of digital infrastructure and global educational avenues in Burundi and Uganda to strengthen social integration, and the reinforcement of governance mechanisms in Chad and Togo to encourage political integration. This study contributes to the globalisation-growth literature by offering time-sensitive insights into the growth trajectories of low-income economies.

The paradox of strong institutions: when better governance intensifies public debt’s drag on economic growth in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) in Africa

Government employment and economic growth: evidence from China

Global public opinion on tradeoffs between environmental protection and economic growth

International tourism and its multi-dimensional impacts: Global evidence on economic growth, natural resource use, and sustainable development

• Examines how future human-water relationships are envisioned in Europe’s largest lignite mining area during its transformation into a post-fossil tourist recreation zone. • Reveals that a dominant “hydrosocial imaginary” is constructed through planning visualizations depicting a controlled “ecology of repair” and an “ecotourism-extraction nexus.” • Shows how existing landscape installations prefigure emerging lakes as “spectacles of extractive attraction”, valorizing industrial ruins and imagining water as an economic and imaginative resource for regional prosperity. • Demonstrates that this powerful imaginary is contested by civil society actors who question the inevitability and timeline of lake conversions and challenge the underlying economic growth paradigm. This article explores how future human-water relationships are envisioned during the transformation of Europe’s largest lignite mining area, the Rhenish mining area, into a post-fossil tourist recreation zone. We examine how institutional, political, and economic actors construct a hydrosocial imaginary of this future in order to organize consensus around a growth-oriented transformation pathway, and how civil society actors adapt or challenge it. We argue that institutional actors create and disseminate the imaginary to gain cultural hegemony in terms of interpretive power regarding the region’s post-fossil transformation. Our initial findings show that this dominant imaginary is made conceivable and tangible through two primary means. First, planning visualizations present a controlled “ecology of repair”, depicting a positive transition to a tourism-oriented future. Second, existing landscape-architectural installations at the mine prefigure the emerging lakes and make them sensorially experienceable, translating the planned future into the present as “spectacles of extractive attraction” and thereby extending this depiction of a seamless and tourism-oriented renewal into lived experience. Together, these practices frame water primarily as an economic and imaginative resource for regional prosperity within an ecologically modernized, growth-oriented paradigm. Yet this hydrosocial imaginary is not uncontested. Civil society actors question projected timelines and challenge the underlying logic of economic growth. The negotiations reveal that while dominant actors strategically deploy the imaginary as a hegemonic instrument to organize and foster consensus, stabilize expectations and manage uncertainties, alternative futures of regional development remain at stake.

An integrated intelligent model for simulating and optimizing regional water resource sustainability under multiple pressures.

Multi-scale social metabolism of China: An extended MuSIASEM analysis of energy, economy, and human activity

This study examines the challenge of measuring environmental sustainability in India using a multidimensional indicator framework that highlights the roles of nuclear energy and human capital in shaping long-term ecological outcomes. The analysis integrates three complementary indicators, carbon dioxide emissions, ecological footprint, and load capacity factor, which reflect emissions intensity, ecological demand, and regenerative capacity. Grounded in the Environmental Kuznets Curve and Load Capacity Curve hypotheses, the study uses annual data from 1969 to 2023 and applies the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach together with robustness estimations using fully modified ordinary least squares, dynamic ordinary least squares, and canonical cointegration regression to assess both short run and long-run dynamics. The findings support the Environmental Kuznets Curve and Load Capacity Curve in India. Nuclear energy and human capital improve environmental performance, while economic growth and natural gas consumption increase ecological pressure. The study contributes by integrating carbon emissions, ecological footprint, and load capacity factor within a unified empirical framework for India, providing evidence to support energy reform, human capital investment, and sustainability oriented policy design. • Integrates ecological footprint, load capacity factor, and carbon emissions to provide a comprehensive indicator-based assessment of environmental sustainability in India. • Confirms both Environmental Kuznets Curve and Load Capacity Curve hypotheses using long-run time-series evidence from 1969–2023. • Shows that nuclear energy reduces ecological pressure and enhances ecological capacity over the long term. • Demonstrates that human capital development plays a critical enabling role in improving sustainability indicators. • Provides indicator-relevant evidence to support environmental management and policy formulation aligned with the SDGs.

Special drawing rights, quality of institutions and economic growth

AGRO AI: A compact solution for modernizing the agriculture using NASA’s satellite data and artificial intelligence

Higher education attainment, multinational corporations, and environmental sustainability: Isolating the carbon footprint in the European Union and the UK

This study examines the interrelation among gold, oil, and cryptocurrency markets and their implications for economic growth in the context of geopolitical turmoil. Employing panel data from 2000 to 2023 of exporter, importer, and mixed economies, we employ Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) and Panel Vector Autoregression (PVAR) to ascertain asymmetric as well as dynamic relations. Evidence shows that oil and gold price shocks exert significant effects on growth with geopolitical risk increasing volatility, while cryptocurrencies are heterogeneously resilient in panels. The results provide fresh evidence of cross-asset linkages, risk transmission mechanisms, and provide policy implications for policymakers and investors under volatile geopolitical environments.

Understanding how financial development shapes renewable energy investments is essential for designing effective economic policies aimed at ensuring environmental sustainability. This study explores to identify the current status, key literature insights, and evolving trends in the relationship between financial development (FD) and renewable energy (RE). In this context, the data obtained from the WoS database for the period 2015–2024 were analyzed using the bibliometric method. The results indicate rapid growth in the field, particularly since 2018, reflecting an increasing discussion of the role of the FD–RE nexus in climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals. The most productive publisher country, article author’s country, journal, author, and institution are, respectively, the UK, China, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Ilhan Ozturk from Türkiye, and the Lebanese American University. The most recent trend in the field is the increasing focus on natural resource and innovation-related issues within the FD–RE nexus. The themes formed based on the findings are renewable energy, financial development, economic growth, carbon emissions, and testing. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive overview of recent research on the FD–RE nexus and offers guidance for future studies. • A holistic understanding of the Financial Development–Renewable Energy nexus is vital for formulating effective environmental policies. • Among the most frequently used keywords in the Financial Development -Renewable Energy field, ' natural resources' and “ecological footprint” have emerged as the most recent trend.

Left out and languishing: A cross-national analysis of relative deprivation and human flourishing.

Unveiling the roles of green tax, financial development, banking development, fintech adoption, and economic growth on sustainable development in Bangladesh

Financial investment in energy sector organizations has a significant impact on striving toward sustainability. The features of a financial investment include protection against inflation, accumulation of wealth, creation of a safety net for future decades, and boosting retirement savings. Primarily, the decision to invest money in any market depends on a variety of factors such as economic growth, sales, government policies, international treaties, and natural disasters. In addition, there are limited studies that have focused on addressing Industry 4.0 technologies integration in financial investment domain. In this investigation, the significance of industry 4.0 enabling technologies for financial investment in energy organization is discussed along with the current challenges in financial investment. Industry 4.0 technologies have the potential to enhance financial investments to realize digitalization with real-time and intelligent analytics coupled with secured transactions. This study presents a paradigm-shifting environment in which ecological responsibility, financial accountability, and innovation come together. The assimilation of renewable energy sources, grid reliability, and operational efficiency are all enhanced by the integration of smart grids and the Internet of Things (IoT). These technical developments drive the energy industry toward a greener future while also optimizing financial investments by reducing downtime and improving grid resilience.

This study examines how governance and financial development shape environmental innovation across a panel of 18 countries (9 advanced and 9 emerging markets) over 1990–2020. Environmental innovation is proxied by OECD fractional patent counts for environment-related technologies, environmental management technologies, climate change mitigation, and climate change adaptation. Governance is measured using the regulatory quality indicator from the Worldwide Governance Indicators. We estimate dynamic panel models using both Difference GMM and System GMM, including year dummies and collapsed instruments. Overall, the results reveal pronounced heterogeneity across technology types and market contexts. Higher regulatory quality is associated with higher environmental innovation, most consistently for environment-related, environmental management, and mitigation technologies, particularly in emerging countries, while the relationship with adaptation technologies is weaker and less robust across country groups. Financial institutions and financial markets display heterogeneous effects between emerging and advanced economies. Results are broadly consistent when splitting the sample into pre- and post-Paris Agreement periods.

Productive use of energy to offset the mutual exclusivity regarding natural resource dependence and sustainable environments

Energy structure and investment efforts shaping green economic growth