Abstract Food security remains a major sustainability challenge in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. has numerous determinants that are complex and interlinked, with one them being social capital. Social capital reflects an individual’s, household’s, or community’s networks, interactions, support systems can be mobilized times need to maintain, among others, livelihoods food security. This stud...

Cristiana Tudor∗ This study employs Enterprise Survey data to analyze business environment constraints and financing sources for investment for Romanian and Bulgarian companies at the end of 2009 and investigates the change in financing sources after the global financial crisis relative to a pre-crisis period (2005). The study also investigates whether the ownership structure of a firm affects ...

OBJECTIVE We explored Australian workers' experiences of nonstandard employment, how it related to health and well-being, and the role that Bourdieu's forms of capital (cultural, economic, and social resources) played in underpinning workers' agency. METHODS Qualitative data from semistructured interviews with 32 causal workers were analyzed on the basis of framework analysis. RESULTS Most ...

This paper presents a case study of designing resilient backbone network for supporting IPTV services within a single network provider. We first introduce the architecture and the characteristics of IPTV traffic. We then explore the design space in terms of IP versus optical technologies, huband-spoke versus meshed service layer topology, dual-homed versus ring access, use of multicast, routing...

This article expands on barriers to entry and repositioning theory by examining the moderating effects of small firm owner/manager characteristics on the relationship between their perceptions of capital access barriers and their firm's market penetration. Of particular interest was how these effects varied between public and commercial market segments and industrial sectors. Hierarchical regre...

Norms about what constitutes an ideal politician are shown to negatively affect the demand for young political candidates within parties because they favor qualities that people have yet acquire. We ask whether this “youth bias” continues shape opportunities of those persons who get elected. Drawing on comprehensive, original data encompassing all Czech MPs elected between 1996 and 2021, we ana...

Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China China’s rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access t...

Venture capital firms have unique capabilities in terms of dealing with high uncertainty, high degrees of information asymmetry, and providing access to a strategic network. This study examines the association between the presence of venture capital and the growth of startups. It explores whether venture capital leads to growth or, alternatively growth signals the need for venture capital. It a...