Pub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100208
Imen Khanchel , Naima Lassoued , Cyrine Khiari
This paper examines the effect of Financial Technologies (FinTech) on the social and financial performance of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and investigates whether the digital infrastructure moderates this relationship. Using a sample of 300 MFIs across 58 countries from 2013 to 2019, a three-stage least squares (3SLS) regression analysis was conducted to estimate a system of simultaneous equations. The results indicate that FinTech initially exhibited a negative impact on social performance, while its effect on financial performance was statistically insignificant. However, upon introducing digital infrastructure as a moderating variable alongside FinTech, the impact of FinTech shifted to positive and significant across all performance measures. This suggests that a well-developed digital infrastructure enhances the positive influence of FinTech on both the social and financial performance of MFIs. The study provides empirical insights into the role of FinTech in shaping MFI outcomes, offering implications for practitioners and policymakers.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100207
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
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Pub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100206
Maíra Ferraz de Oliveira Silva , Mônica Pires , Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli , Andréa da Silva Gomes , Fábio Lúcio Martins Neto
This study aims to assess the economic-ecological impacts of coffee growing of Chapada Diamantina, located in the Brazilian state of Bahia, within the context of the local, state, and national production structure. The intensity coefficients of the use of ecological commodities are quantified by using a multiregional input-output model in order to measure the use of environmental resources, as well as the generation of by-products and waste from the sector, for the year 2017. The objective is to understand whether the local impacts differ from those in other regions, given the predominance of special coffee growing (organic and gourmet). The main results show that, generally, the use of ecological commodities in the economy of Bahia and Brazil is mainly driven by the agricultural and livestock sectors, as well as the “Other food products” and “Biofuel manufacturing” sectors. In Chapada Diamantina, the "Coffee" sector stands out in terms of input usage and waste production (mainly biomass), and the "Forestry production, fishing, and aquaculture" sector stands out in the return of environmental assets (greenhouse gas removals and preserved native vegetation). It was observed that the special coffee segment in Chapada Diamantina presents differentiated economic-ecological impacts as compared to other coffee-growing regions in the state, considering the presence and dynamics of organic cultivation and the small family production integrated into the global special coffee markets, presenting potential for adopting strategies aligned with climate adaptation of conventional economic practices.
{"title":"Economic-ecological impacts of coffee growing: A multiregional analysis for Chapada Diamantina region, Bahia","authors":"Maíra Ferraz de Oliveira Silva , Mônica Pires , Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli , Andréa da Silva Gomes , Fábio Lúcio Martins Neto","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100206","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100206","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to assess the economic-ecological impacts of coffee growing of Chapada Diamantina, located in the Brazilian state of Bahia, within the context of the local, state, and national production structure. The intensity coefficients of the use of ecological commodities are quantified by using a multiregional input-output model in order to measure the use of environmental resources, as well as the generation of by-products and waste from the sector, for the year 2017. The objective is to understand whether the local impacts differ from those in other regions, given the predominance of special coffee growing (organic and gourmet). The main results show that, generally, the use of ecological commodities in the economy of Bahia and Brazil is mainly driven by the agricultural and livestock sectors, as well as the “Other food products” and “Biofuel manufacturing” sectors. In Chapada Diamantina, the \"Coffee\" sector stands out in terms of input usage and waste production (mainly biomass), and the \"Forestry production, fishing, and aquaculture\" sector stands out in the return of environmental assets (greenhouse gas removals and preserved native vegetation). It was observed that the special coffee segment in Chapada Diamantina presents differentiated economic-ecological impacts as compared to other coffee-growing regions in the state, considering the presence and dynamics of organic cultivation and the small family production integrated into the global special coffee markets, presenting potential for adopting strategies aligned with climate adaptation of conventional economic practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"17 9","pages":"Article 100206"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144099457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-29DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100205
Miao Xu, Hans Westlund
In the context of China’s legislation of “ecological civilization”, concepts like “ecology”, “green” and “low carbon” have become basic requirements for all urban construction projects by the Chinese government. The construction of most new eco-cities is led by local governments. Because of their large scale, long construction period and the investment required, many new eco-cities lack strong financial support from local governments and have to rely on private enterprises. Local governments have shifted the task of solving the environmental problems of the new eco-cities, which are necessary to achieve ecological goals, to private enterprises. Based on the requirements of national policies and the economic interests of private enterprises, these private enterprises had to deal with the contradiction between environmental challenges and economic interests in the early planning stage of new eco-cities. There is relatively little research on private enterprise-led new eco-cities, and there are no suitable working approaches to help private enterprises resolve this contradiction. This paper takes a new eco-city, Zhongshan New City of the developer company China Fortune Land Development (CFLD), as the research object, proposes an Ideal Collaboration Model with the theoretical support of social capital theory. Then, the model is modified by comparing it with the actions of stakeholders in solving environmental problems in practice. The findings show that the modified ideal model can be used as a working approach for solving complex problems, to perfect the process of eco-planning and to facilitate the collaboration of various stakeholders in order to reduce the environmental damage caused by the development of new cities and to avoid future economic losses for the developers. However, public participation seems hard to realize in the early planning stages of the development of new eco-cities.
{"title":"Environmental challenges and economic interests: The role of social capital in planning developer-led eco-cities in China","authors":"Miao Xu, Hans Westlund","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100205","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100205","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of China’s legislation of “ecological civilization”, concepts like “ecology”, “green” and “low carbon” have become basic requirements for all urban construction projects by the Chinese government. The construction of most new eco-cities is led by local governments. Because of their large scale, long construction period and the investment required, many new eco-cities lack strong financial support from local governments and have to rely on private enterprises. Local governments have shifted the task of solving the environmental problems of the new eco-cities, which are necessary to achieve ecological goals, to private enterprises. Based on the requirements of national policies and the economic interests of private enterprises, these private enterprises had to deal with the contradiction between environmental challenges and economic interests in the early planning stage of new eco-cities. There is relatively little research on private enterprise-led new eco-cities, and there are no suitable working approaches to help private enterprises resolve this contradiction. This paper takes a new eco-city, Zhongshan New City of the developer company China Fortune Land Development (CFLD), as the research object, proposes an Ideal Collaboration Model with the theoretical support of social capital theory. Then, the model is modified by comparing it with the actions of stakeholders in solving environmental problems in practice. The findings show that the modified ideal model can be used as a working approach for solving complex problems, to perfect the process of eco-planning and to facilitate the collaboration of various stakeholders in order to reduce the environmental damage caused by the development of new cities and to avoid future economic losses for the developers. However, public participation seems hard to realize in the early planning stages of the development of new eco-cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"17 7","pages":"Article 100205"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-26DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100203
Ayane Sakuma, Haruka Kato
Recent tourism gentrification has been attributed to an increase in extreme short-term rentals through P2P digital platforms. Although many tourist cities have implemented regulations on short-term rentals, several studies have shown the ineffectiveness of those regulations. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the Kyoto City government’s regulation on preventing population decline in the historical center of Kyoto City. The Kyoto City government indirectly regulates simple accommodations (SAs) through the host’s location of SA management stations. Specifically, small SAs must have hosts who are stationed approximately 800 m from the management SAs. The research design adopted the difference-in-differences regression analysis that analyzed the effects of the number of accommodations on population change. As a result, this study found the number of opening SAs decreased by about half after the regulation. The result suggests that the regulation on SAs might have made it more difficult for SAs to open. Instead of SAs, the number of opening hotels increased by about 1.5 times after regulation. In addition, the regulation increased the number of populations by 7.419 [1.268, 13.57] for each additional hotel from the pre-regulation to post-regulation periods. In the historical center of Kyoto City, population decline accelerated from the pre-regulation period (n = −365) to the post-regulation period (n = −1073). Therefore, our findings were interesting as the populations increased in the NAs where hotels opened during the post-regulation period. Thus, the Kyoto City government’s regulation was effective in preventing population decline due to tourism gentrification.
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The government of Bangladesh undertook National Agricultural Technology Program (NATP) for sustainable socio-economic development through common interest group (CIG) approach. This program aims to build farmers’ capacity to embrace improved agricultural technologies with a view to improving agricultural productivity, and farmers’ income. Generally, the farmers of CIG are involved in similar farming practices, share common needs, and interests within the same vicinity. The main objective of this study is to assess how the institutional policies of NATP (phase II) affect farmers’ capacity building in Trishal upazila, a sub-district primarily composed of resource-poor farmers. To achieve our goal, we set the hypothesis for verification as “The institutional policies of NATP (phase II) through common interest group approach have impacts on the underlying factors (accumulation of human capital and social capital) and bring the outcomes of capacity-building for sustainable socio-economic development in Bangladesh (H1)”. For hypothesis verification, we applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to the findings of structured questionnaire surveys targeting CIG and non-CIG farmers in Trishal upazila (sub-district). It was evident that mixed-gender CIG consisting of male, and female farmers were effective for capacity building along with group leadership, crop diversification, access to seed, and mechanized farming compared to those in single-gender CIG or non-CIG farmers. The policy implications drawn from our study suggest to pay attention to gender diversity management to minimize existing gaps, and income-generating agriculture through public-private partnerships for sustainable socio-economic development in Bangladesh.
{"title":"An analysis of factors affecting farmers’ capacity building for sustainable rural and agricultural development in Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Masud Rana , Lily Kiminami , Shinichi Furuzawa","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The government of Bangladesh undertook National Agricultural Technology Program (NATP) for sustainable socio-economic development through common interest group (CIG) approach. This program aims to build farmers’ capacity to embrace improved agricultural technologies with a view to improving agricultural productivity, and farmers’ income. Generally, the farmers of CIG are involved in similar farming practices, share common needs, and interests within the same vicinity. The main objective of this study is to assess how the institutional policies of NATP (phase II) affect farmers’ capacity building in Trishal upazila, a sub-district primarily composed of resource-poor farmers. To achieve our goal, we set the hypothesis for verification as “The institutional policies of NATP (phase II) through common interest group approach have impacts on the underlying factors (accumulation of human capital and social capital) and bring the outcomes of capacity-building for sustainable socio-economic development in Bangladesh (H1)”. For hypothesis verification, we applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to the findings of structured questionnaire surveys targeting CIG and non-CIG farmers in Trishal upazila (sub-district). It was evident that mixed-gender CIG consisting of male, and female farmers were effective for capacity building along with group leadership, crop diversification, access to seed, and mechanized farming compared to those in single-gender CIG or non-CIG farmers. The policy implications drawn from our study suggest to pay attention to gender diversity management to minimize existing gaps, and income-generating agriculture through public-private partnerships for sustainable socio-economic development in Bangladesh.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"17 8","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143876652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-17DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100201
Amina Moćević , Lejla Lazović-Pita
With the growing interest in intergovernmental fiscal relations and theory of fiscal federalism, the academic study of subcentral public debt has gained prominence, particularly in developed countries. However, this focus has been less prevalent in post-transition economies. This article examines the determinants of subcentral public debt in a post-transition country with a complex constitutional structure. The method of generalized method of moments (GMM, specifically SGMM) over fiscally stable 2011–2019 period in the investigation of cantonal public debt in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) has been conducted. The study investigates fiscal, institutional, economic, and socio-demographic factors influencing subcentral public debt levels. The findings indicate that variables from each category significantly impact cantonal public debt in both the short and long term. As expected, lagged debt and deficits contribute to higher debt levels, while a greater share of tax revenue relative to total revenue reduces cantonal public debt accumulation. Unique to FBiH, institutional factors - such as special expenditure needs in certain cantons and fiscal factors - such as transfers from the FBiH level also contribute to higher cantonal public debt. These findings highlight the importance of evidence-based policymaking in managing subcentral public debt within FBiH. Furthermore, the study offers valuable insights for other Eastern European and fiscally decentralized countries worldwide. The results underscore the critical role of intergovernmental fiscal relations in shaping subcentral public debt, reinforcing their theoretical and empirical contributions to the second-generation fiscal federalism. The findings suggest that granting greater borrowing authority to subcentral governments is feasible only if intergovernmental fiscal relations evolve to reduce reliance on transfer payments and enhance tax autonomy.
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The existence of a high percentage of informal labour has a direct impact on the living conditions of millions of people and their families, especially in rural areas and developing countries. The implications of this problem present a challenge for public policy on employment, social security and business activity. Taking advantage of the wealth of microdata from the Great Integrated Household Survey (of national representation), our research aimed to characterise the sociodemographic composition and living conditions of the informal labour population in the rural sector in Colombia during a decade of study (2014–2023). Using descriptive analytical techniques and multivariate statistics, we analysed particularities of rural informal workers such as level of education, illiteracy, number of children, economic activity, income level, affiliation to occupational risk insurance, among others. The results demonstrate that working conditions and informality in the rural sector are notoriously more unfavourable compared to those in the urban sector. The poor working conditions in rural areas may have caused the displacement of people to the cities, which has had an important effect on the agricultural sector and consequently on the country's GDP. These results allow us to understand the living conditions and consequences of informality, especially in the rural sector, to promote policies aimed at sustainable, equitable and inclusive development in the countryside.
{"title":"Informal workers in the rural sector in Colombia: Living conditions and social security","authors":"Oscar Espinosa , Valeria Bejarano , Martha-Liliana Arias , Jorge-Iván González","doi":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100200","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100200","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The existence of a high percentage of informal labour has a direct impact on the living conditions of millions of people and their families, especially in rural areas and developing countries. The implications of this problem present a challenge for public policy on employment, social security and business activity. Taking advantage of the wealth of microdata from the <em>Great Integrated Household Survey</em> (of national representation), our research aimed to characterise the sociodemographic composition and living conditions of the informal labour population in the rural sector in Colombia during a decade of study (2014–2023). Using descriptive analytical techniques and multivariate statistics, we analysed particularities of rural informal workers such as level of education, illiteracy, number of children, economic activity, income level, affiliation to occupational risk insurance, among others. The results demonstrate that working conditions and informality in the rural sector are notoriously more unfavourable compared to those in the urban sector. The poor working conditions in rural areas may have caused the displacement of people to the cities, which has had an important effect on the agricultural sector and consequently on the country's GDP. These results allow us to understand the living conditions and consequences of informality, especially in the rural sector, to promote policies aimed at sustainable, equitable and inclusive development in the countryside.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45520,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science Policy and Practice","volume":"17 8","pages":"Article 100200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143882829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.rspp.2025.100199
André Torre
Various proximities played a central role in the Covid-19 crisis, whether they promoted the spread of the pandemic, reduced human and social interactions, or allowed for exchange and contact at a distance. But they were also profoundly affected by the pandemic. Geographical proximity became dangerous and deadly, while distance-organized proximity increasingly developed through the use of ICTs. Both were associated with a dramatic rise in social and spatial inequalities. The object of this article is the analysis of how the pandemic reveals and modify both the functioning and the impact of proximities on our lives, from the examination of notions such as social distancing, lockdown or teleworking, and the use of proxemics. We conclude on the difficulty for a society to live at a distance.
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