This study examines the relationship between entrepreneurial skills and youth economic empowerment in informal settlements of Nairobi City County, Kenya. It is grounded in a convergent mixed-methods design involving quantitative survey data from 339 youth entrepreneurs across Kib...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i71348
This study examined the marketing channels and marketing efficiency of medicinal plant growers in Himachal Pradesh, with evidence from Kangra and Hamirpur districts during the agricultural year 2023–24. Primary data were collected from 300 medicinal plant growers, comprising 150...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i71349
The nature of work in India is being reshaped simultaneously by artificial intelligence, platform-mediated employment, demographic pressure, climate imperatives and a persistently uneven structural transformation. This article offers a critical narrative review of the academic an...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i71350
This study examined the relationship between external debt and economic growth in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) using annual panel data for fifteen member countries from 1990 to 2023. The study focused on how debt service ratio, external debt as a percent...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i71345
This study examines the factors that influence consumer purchase intention towards eco-friendly packaged fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. Although environmental concern and consumer awareness are increasing, the adoption of eco-friendly pac...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i71344
This study examines sustainability management in global supply chains by synthesising literature on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM), digital transformation, external sustainability pressures, implementation barriers and organisational outcomes. Using a qualitative desk...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i71343
Growing concern about food safety, health, and environmental sustainability has increased consumers’ interest in organic food products. This study examines consumer purchase behaviour and preferences towards organic food products in Madurai City, Tamil Nadu, India. It specificall...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i71342
This study assessed the effect of electronic banking on economic growth in Nigeria using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) time-series framework. Specifically, it examined how transactions through automated teller machines (ATMs), mobile banking, internet banking and point...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i71341
Environmental degradation has intensified globally over the past two decades due to economic growth, energy consumption, and human activities, prompting increased interest in examining whether education can help mitigate CO₂ emissions and support sustainable development within th...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i61340
This paper investigated the impact of energy equity on the growth of the manufacturing sector in Nigeria, with a focus on fossil fuel subsidies as a measure of energy affordability, access to electricity as a measure of energy accessibility, and renewable energy consumption as a...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i61339