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It was better before COVID: The impact of the social relief of distress grant on the lives and livelihoods of South African day labourers in Tshwane COVID 之前更好：社会救济金对茨瓦内南非日工生活和生计的影响

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12497

Lodewalt Venter, D. Blaauw, C. Claassen

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Women's economic empowerment in Africa: Is economic globalization friend or foe? 赋予非洲妇女经济权力：经济全球化是敌是友？

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-25 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12493

Bright Tetteh, Franklin Bedakiyiba Baajike, Samuel Tawiah Baidoo, Esther Nuamah

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How does economic growth impact environmental quality in Ethiopia? A non‐linear approach 经济增长如何影响埃塞俄比亚的环境质量？非线性方法

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-25 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12492

C. Abate

{"title":"How does economic growth impact environmental quality in Ethiopia? A non‐linear approach","authors":"C. Abate","doi":"10.1111/issj.12492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12492","url":null,"abstract":"Fueled by economic growth, among other factors, environmental degradation is one of the most serious challenges facing humanity in the twenty‐first century. Although extensive research has been conducted on the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality, the findings are inconclusive. This study investigated the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality in Ethiopia from 1981 to 2016 using non‐linear autoregressive distributive lag and two‐step least squares models. First, the study finds that the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality is asymmetric. Second, economic growth negatively affects environmental quality. Third, the positive environmental effect of a negative shock on economic growth is stronger than that of a positive shock. Fourth, energy consumption and population growth negatively affect environmental quality, whereas the effects of renewable energy consumption, natural resources, trade openness and human capital are positive. Fifth, an inverted N‐shaped relationship exists between economic growth and environmental quality, where GDP per capita greater than $686.770 contributes to environmental quality. Therefore, high and sustainable economic growth, renewable energy consumption, population control, resource conservation, trade openness and human capital accumulation are required to improve the environmental quality of Ethiopia. The limitation of this study is that it examines the direct impact of economic growth on environmental quality. It would be better to examine the potential indirect impact of economic growth via variables, such as institutional quality and human capital.","PeriodicalId":35727,"journal":{"name":"International Social Science Journal","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140433234","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}

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Connectedness between sustainable exchanged‐traded funds in the presence of the Ukrainian war: Does political risk matter? 乌克兰战争中可持续交易所交易基金之间的关联性：政治风险重要吗？

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12491

Vítor Gabriel, Carlos Pinho

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The effects of telecommunication technology and leadership quality on private consumption in Malaysia 电信技术和领导素质对马来西亚私人消费的影响

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12486

Chor Foon Tang, Yunhee Lim

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Macroeconomics factor, institutional quality and export performance: Empirical evidence from Pakistan 宏观经济因素、机构质量和出口绩效：巴基斯坦的经验证据

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12483

Abbas Khan, Muhammad Yar Khan, Manzoor Ahmad

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ACOVMD: Automatic COVID‐19 misinformation detection in Twitter using self‐trained semi‐supervised hybrid deep learning model ACOVMD:使用自训练半监督混合深度学习模型在Twitter中自动检测COVID - 19错误信息

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12475

S. Selva Birunda, R. Kanniga Devi, M. Muthukannan, M. Mahesh Babu

{"title":"ACOVMD: Automatic COVID‐19 misinformation detection in Twitter using self‐trained semi‐supervised hybrid deep learning model","authors":"S. Selva Birunda, R. Kanniga Devi, M. Muthukannan, M. Mahesh Babu","doi":"10.1111/issj.12475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12475","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the COVID‐19 pandemic, online social networks are extensively utilized, more than ever before by 8.4%, resulting in the propagation of false information related to COVID‐19. Despite the existence of many fake news detection models; annotation inconsistency, memory consumption, accurate and self‐trained efficient algorithms for detecting the emerging COVID‐19 misinformation tweets are still challenging. Hence, the main aim of this work is to come up with a self‐trained semi‐supervised model that accurately and automatically detects the reliability of emerging COVID‐19 tweets without delay. In this work, COVID‐19 tweet dataset is created in English Language from the period January 2020 to January 2022 as a ground truth database. Then self‐trained semi‐supervised hybrid deep learning model is proposed to train both supervised and unsupervised components simultaneously using the created dataset. The proposed model is self‐trained repeatedly and the model gets updated to predict the reliability of upcoming COVID‐19 tweets that differ from training tweets. We performed experiments multiple times by limiting the percentage amount of labelled tweets shown to the model, namely 80%, 50%, 40%, 30%, 20% and 10% labelled tweets, respectively. Experimental results show that the proposed model achieves 80.92% accuracy and 98.15% accuracy in the 10% and 80% label‐seen experiments, respectively. This shows a clear rising trend in the performance curve. Therefore, this technique will be useful for effectively classifying voluminous amounts of emerging tweets generated as part of the COVID‐19 infodemic. The proposed model may efficiently use a huge amount of unlabelled tweets and enhance the model's generalization performance.","PeriodicalId":35727,"journal":{"name":"International Social Science Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136347628","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}

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Governance, tourism and inclusive growth in Africa 非洲的治理、旅游和包容性增长

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-12 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12476

Toyo A. M. Dossou, Simplice A. Asongu, Emmanuelle N. Kambaye, Kouessi P. Dossou, Alastaire S. Alinsato

{"title":"Governance, tourism and inclusive growth in Africa","authors":"Toyo A. M. Dossou, Simplice A. Asongu, Emmanuelle N. Kambaye, Kouessi P. Dossou, Alastaire S. Alinsato","doi":"10.1111/issj.12476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12476","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita as a measure of economic growth has been recently subject to wide criticism by many economists. It has been observed that although some countries have experienced economic growth in recent years, income inequality and poverty continue to be exacerbated. Recently, sustainable development goal 8 has been geared to promote inclusive growth. Considering this fact, this study expands the literature by examining the relationship between tourism development and inclusive growth for a panel of 44 African countries over the period 2000–2020. Further, the study also adds to the literature by examining the moderation of governance quality on the tourism‐inclusive growth nexus. The investigation is made using the generalized method of moments as an estimation technique. The result indicates that tourism and governance quality appear to promote inclusive growth. Moreover, the results indicate that good quality of institutions or governance could complement tourism development to promote inclusive growth, as positive synergies are apparent from the role of governance in moderating the incidence of tourism on inclusive growth. Policy implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":35727,"journal":{"name":"International Social Science Journal","volume":"23 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135038156","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}

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Circular economy and innovation in oil and gas industry: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis 循环经济与油气产业创新:系统文献综述与计量分析

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12474

Shikhar Dua, Nikunj Kumar Jain

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A systematic review to determine the role of public space and urban design on sense of community 系统回顾公共空间和城市设计对社区意识的作用

International Social Science Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1111/issj.12472

Ignacio Ramos‐Vidal, Elsy Domínguez de la Ossa

{"title":"A systematic review to determine the role of public space and urban design on sense of community","authors":"Ignacio Ramos‐Vidal, Elsy Domínguez de la Ossa","doi":"10.1111/issj.12472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12472","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of this research is to determine the effect that the physical characteristics of public spaces and their perceived quality have on residents’ sense of community (SoC). A systematic review was carried out following the protocol of the PRISMA guidelines; a systematic search was conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection, resulting in the retrieval of 637 records. After several screenings, 23 studies were identified. The results suggest that the perceived quality of public spaces exerts positive effects, but of moderate intensity, on SoC (range = 0.13–0.4, M β = 0.24, SD = 0.1), as does the possibility of walking to public spaces within the neighbourhood (range = 0.02–0.57; M β = 0.22; SD = 0.21). The results indicate that designing public spaces that facilitate social interaction is the main factor for enhancing SoC. The main findings of this review justify the design of public spaces and built environments that favour interpersonal relationships between residents, serve as contexts for socialization and community participation and can be used to celebrate cultural and recreational events for promoting social capital in urban contexts.","PeriodicalId":35727,"journal":{"name":"International Social Science Journal","volume":"228 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974860","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}

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