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{"title":"Women and land rights: The impact of formalization in Tanzania’s Coastal Region","authors":"L.A. Fredrick,&nbsp;C. Lucian,&nbsp;J. Urassa","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100288","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100288","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of land formalization projects on women’s tenure security in Pangani Ward, Coastal Region, Tanzania, while also considering the broader global implications for women’s land rights. Despite progressive legislation that guarantees equal land rights for women, systemic challenges rooted in socio-cultural norms and economic constraints persist. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research combines qualitative and quantitative data from semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys to assess women’s experiences with land formalization. The findings indicate that land formalization has had positive effects, including enhanced tenure security through legal recognition, improved credit access, and reduced land conflicts. However, the study also reveals significant barriers to women’s full engagement in the process, such as declining participation rates, socio-economic inequalities, and deeply ingrained gender biases that limit their ability to exercise land rights fully. These findings are relevant to Tanzania and offer insights into the challenges and opportunities for land rights formalization in other regions globally. The study highlights the need for targeted policy interventions, including increasing women’s participation in formalization processes, providing financial support, and addressing socio-cultural barriers. By examining Tanzania’s experience, this research contributes to a broader global conversation on the intersections of legal frameworks, cultural norms, and economic empowerment, urging a more inclusive approach to land formalization that can support women’s long-term tenure security and improved livelihood outcomes worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106907","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}

{"title":"Global currents, local tides: An examination of the dynamic interplay between global value chains and local food markets","authors":"Ellen Mangnus ,&nbsp;Marc Wegerif","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100287","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100287","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article contributes to a special issue critically examining the shift from an “international” to a “global” development paradigm. Focusing on global value chains, the paper critiques the convergence-divergence thesis of <span><span>Horner and Hulme (2019)</span></span>, which posits that globalization leads to converging development trends across countries but diverging inequalities within them. The article argues for a more in-depth examination of how local contexts, market practices, and actors interact with global dynamics. Through a narrative review, the paper traces the evolution of global value chains—from a framework for analysing transnational supply chains to a development tool—and critiques its limitations in addressing the complex inequalities that emerge both within and between countries. Focusing on food production, trade, and consumption, the article proposes a practice-based approach to globalization that more effectively captures the dynamics of global–local interactions and offers a nuanced understanding of how people shape—and are shaped by—globalization in their daily lives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138428","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}

{"title":"Transnational connections and religious change: How UK Bangladesh diaspora networks shape religious practices in Sylhet","authors":"Sajid Amit","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100286","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100286","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In an increasingly interconnected global landscape, diaspora communities maintain complex transnational ties with their homelands, influencing local religious practices and institutions. This study examines how UK-Bangladesh diaspora connections shape religious identity formation and social practices in Bangladesh’s Sylhet region. Using a mixed-methods approach combining surveys (n = 400), focus group discussions (n = 10), and key informant interviews (n = 17) conducted from August 2018 to February 2020, the research investigated how transnational family relationships, remittances, and digital technologies influence religious development in the region. Findings reveal that global digital platforms have become primary drivers of religious change, with 68.5 % of respondents identifying social media as the main influence on local religious practices. Transnational family connections significantly shaped local religious perspectives, with 81.8 % of respondents reporting high trust in UK-residing relatives’ religious knowledge. Global financial flows play a crucial role, with approximately 40 % of remittances supporting religious institutions, highlighting the economic dimensions of transnational religious ties. Statistical analysis demonstrated significant associations between UK family influence (β = 0.28), remittance reception (β = 0.24), and social media use (β = 0.22) with perceptions of increased religiosity. The study reveals how these transnational connections often promote more conservative religious interpretations rather than secular values, challenging linear narratives of globalization leading to secularization. These findings contribute to transnational migration scholarship by documenting the specific mechanisms through which diaspora communities influence religious practices in their regions of origin, offering important insights for understanding religious identity formation in an increasingly connected world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144130857","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}

{"title":"Globalization, physical capital, and human capital nexus with economic growth: evidence from BIMSTEC","authors":"Muhammad Raihan Uddin,&nbsp;Nafis Sadik,&nbsp;Md. Mominur Rahman","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100284","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100284","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Policymakers’ main focus is economic growth, particularly in areas like BIMSTEC where structural problems and globalization’s influences greatly affect paths of development. With special focus on the moderating function of globalization, this study examines the link between physical capital, human capital, and economic growth. The paper analyzes the relationships<!--> <!-->using advanced econometric methods including cross-sectional dependency, stationarity, cointegration, and fully modified ordinary least squares using panel data from 1990 to 2019. The results show a complicated link: while physical and human capital have positive direct effects on growth, globalization negatively moderates these relationships in BIMSTEC due to the region’s diverse economic structures and different degrees of integration with global markets, so transforming them into stronger growth drivers in the long run. Dynamic ordinary least squares and ARDL models’ robustness testing help to validate the results. Especially, although the associations maintain in the long-run, the short run shows no appreciable influence. These findings have significant consequences for policy since they encourage BIMSTEC nation officials to match globalization with capital accumulation policies in order to support sustainable economic development. This paper provides a route for creating long-term development programs that include worldwide possibilities into regional economic strategy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143854517","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}

{"title":"Global connectivity and resilience in African Banking: Role of technology and regulation","authors":"Minyahil Alemu ,&nbsp;Jayamohan M.K. ,&nbsp;Wondaferahu Mulugeta","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100285","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100285","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study emphasizes three solid questions: (i) the extent to which African banking systems are globalized; (ii) the role of regulation and technology in this process; and (iii) whether economic globalization reinforces banking stability. We conceptualize financial globalization through two symbiotic dimensions; connectivity and resilience, both affected by technological and regulatory designs. Covering 21 African nations and five major global economies, we employ comovement analysis (2000–2023), generalized impulse response functions, and System-GMM (2010–2023). We found strong comovement between African and global banks, especially during the 2007/08 global financial crisis, followed by partial decoupling in its aftermath. Yet, African banks tend to be highly reactive to world liquidity conditions. Financial technology has a dual role: automated teller machine proliferation fosters cross-border activity, whereas mobile banking, though active for domestic inclusion, did less as a global connector due to infrastructural and regulatory curbs. Regulatory capital cushions, chiefly Tier 1 ratios, favor both stability and integration by lowering risk and refining solvency. Trade openness, one facet of economic globalization, also upholds banking stability through greater risk diversification. We suggest adaptive regulatory approaches, like sandbox outlines, and especial support for smaller African banks, for more inclusive and sustainable integration into global financial markets. Future research must expand on regulatory on scope to capture institutional asymmetry and incipient risks within Africa’s finance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143854367","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}

{"title":"Gender perspectives of globalization and human development: Evidence from individual-level data","authors":"Jayanti Behera ,&nbsp;Dukhabandhu Sahoo","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100282","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100282","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global development debate, which challenges the traditional North-South divide and focuses on the within-country or micro-level development perspective, argues that there is gender inequality in development within countries or at the micro level. It has brought a new dimension to the argument on development issues by addressing the gender perspective of globalization. Globalization plays a vital role in contributing to greater gender equality in human development. In view of this, this study explores the gender dynamics of globalization and human development at the individual level by covering geo-socioeconomic factors in Odisha, India. It uses primary data collected through a structured survey schedule from 579 individuals in Odisha. By using the beta regression model, the study found that both sociocultural and environmental globalization improve human development at the individual level. Further, as regards the gender perspective, the effect of environmental globalization on human development is stronger for females than males. However, the effect of psychological globalization on human development is weaker for females than for males. Females have lower levels of human development than males, while adults and middle-aged individuals have higher levels of human development than elderly individuals. Moreover, individuals from other backward classes, scheduled classes, and scheduled tribes have lower levels of human development than individuals from unreserved categories. Individuals from Muslim and Christian communities have higher levels of human development than those from Hindu communities. Individuals from joint families experience higher levels of human development than those from nuclear families. Additionally, urban residents have higher levels of human development than rural ones, while individuals from tribal regions have lower levels of it than those from nontribal ones. In order to promote gender equality, globalization can be used as a tool for female human development, having special provisions for female members of the state.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830034","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}

{"title":"What they Don’t Want You to Know about Globalization: It’s impact on employment in Nigeria and India","authors":"Mashael Jassim Nasser,&nbsp;Gyanendra Singh Sisodia,&nbsp;Rajesh Mohnot","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100281","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100281","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study attempts to investigate the historical and economic narratives, highlighting missed points in the comprehension of globalization and the effects on present-day labor markets in developing countries – India and Nigeria, between 1990 and 2023. The study fills a noticeable gap in the extant literature about the impacts of globalization on labor market dynamics in developing countries. There are positive and negative impacts of globalization, including perceived negative impacts such as loss of employment and positive impacts such as shifts in global wage dynamics. Finding correlations between employment quality and globalization-related variables such as technological advancements, foreign direct investments (FDI), time-specific events, and policy implications can help in developing policies capable of mitigating the adverse effects of globalization on the labor market. The study adopted a panel data analysis that used a fixed effects model to analyze data from the World Bank’s development indicators, the International Labor Organization (ILO) statistics, and the KOF Globalization Index. The study found that while globalization boosted economic integration, it worsened job security, with a globalization coefficient of −0.35 (p &lt; 0.001) and increased wage disparities with a coefficient of 0.58 (p &lt; 0.001). Other findings show a positive correlation between technological advancement and employment quality with a coefficient of 0.10 (p = 0.020); a negative correlation between FDI and employment quality at −0.03 and P = 0.010, and a positive correlation between policy variables and employment quality with a coefficient of 0.25 (p = 0.002). The findings suggest that robust national policies can be used to mitigate the negative consequences of globalization and the policymakers must adopt comprehensive policy measures to benefit from globalization effects while addressing emanating challenges. This study contributes to the literature by offering a nuanced exploration of the multifaceted relationship between global economic integration and local labor market outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823193","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}

{"title":"Digital inclusion or exclusion? Exploring the moderating role of governance in digitalization’s impact on income inequality in developing countries","authors":"Thi Lam Ho ,&nbsp;Le Hong Ngoc ,&nbsp;Thu Hoai Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100283","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100283","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digitalization plays a critical role in economic development and ensuring social equity. The advancement of digitalization is expected to expand economic opportunities for previously underserved populations, thereby narrowing income disparities. However, it may also exacerbate inequality due to differences in access and skill levels. In this study, we utilize panel data from 45 developing countries over the period 2002–2023, employing the recently developed Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) by <span><span>Machado &amp; Santos Silva (2019)</span></span> to examine the empirical relationship between digitalization and income inequality and to assess the role of governance quality in this relationship. Our findings reveal a strong negative impact of digitalization on income inequality across all specific and composite digitalization measures. Furthermore, we find that the relationship between digitalization and income inequality is contingent on governance quality and the type of digitalization adopted. Based on our research results, several governance implications are proposed to enhance the effectiveness of digitalization in reducing income inequality in developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830035","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}

{"title":"The linkage between banking crisis and sovereign debt crisis: Evidence from Ghana","authors":"David Marfo-Ahenkorah ,&nbsp;Richard Kofi Asravor ,&nbsp;Nicholas Asare","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100280","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100280","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the effect of the recent Ghanaian banking crisis on the country’s ongoing sovereign debt crisis. An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) is adopted to estimate the immediate effects of Ghana’s banking crisis on public debt levels using secondary data spanning the period of 1997–2022. The results show that causality flows from banking crisis to sovereign debt and not vice versa. The banking crisis has a positive significant effect on Ghana’s sovereign debt levels. It also shows a significant negative relationship between Real GDP growth and public debt levels while private sector credit, and currency depreciation have a significant positive relationship with public debt levels in both the short run and long run. This study contributes to the doom loop literature by offering empirical and theoretical evidence of the linkage between banking crisis and sovereign debt crisis in a frontier economy. The study recommends promoting export diversification, strengthening financial sector regulations, enhancing institutional frameworks, and implementing effective debt management strategies to ensure economic stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advancing sustainable development goal 8 Targets: The role of institutional Quality, economic Complexity, and state fragility in G20 nations (2000–2023)","authors":"Mohammad Naim Azimi ,&nbsp;Mohammad Mafizur Rahman ,&nbsp;Tek Maraseni","doi":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100278","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resglo.2025.100278","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the global community nears critical milestones in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the interplay of dynamic forces continues to reshape progress trajectories. This study explores the advancement of SDG 8 targets (“Decent Work and Economic Growth”) through the lens of three increasingly prominent factors: institutional quality, economic complexity, and state fragility, focusing on the G20 nations from 2000 to 2023. Guided by an extensive literature review, three research questions, and nine hypotheses, this study formulates four empirical models aligned with four SDG 8 targets and employs the cross-sectionally augmented autoregressive distributed lags model, further validated through dynamic common correlated effects mean group estimators. The findings reveal that economic complexity, institutional quality, and renewable energy significantly enhance economic growth and labour productivity, while reducing unemployment, and CO₂ emissions. In stark contrast, state fragility and primary energy use exert detrimental impacts, underscoring the negative influence of macroeconomic instability and the persistent reliance of growth and labour productivity on primary energy sources, which intensify unemployment and CO₂ emissions. Additionally, globalisation, human development, environmental technologies, urbanisation, and foreign direct investment continue to positively influence growth and labour productivity while mitigating unemployment and CO₂ emissions. Under the combined influence of economic complexity, state fragility, and institutional quality, the findings validate the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, revealing a redefined turning point shaped by these metrics. Beyond this threshold, the environmental consequences of achieving SDG 8 targets are expected to abate, laying a critical foundation for the policy implications outlined in the study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34321,"journal":{"name":"Research in Globalization","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143679450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}