Last Date for submission: May 11, 2026

Munich, Germany

Last Date for submission: May 15, 2026

Washington D.C., United States

Last Date for submission: March 02, 2026

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Natural Resource Forum, January 2026

The sustainable development of the BRICS nations is a critical global concern. As emerging economies, the BRICS countries play a significant role in shaping the world's future. Understanding the factors influencing their sustainable development is essential for policymakers and researchers to enable nations to grow together and deal with global uncertainties. This study investigates the impact of financial technology on the sustainable development of the BRICS nations...

Sustainable Development, January 2026

The sustainability of community-based water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions is essential for achieving sustainable global public health outcomes. This systematic review synthesizes evidence from WASH-related studies across South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) on factors affecting intervention sustainability, including facilitators, barriers, and contextual effectiveness. A comprehensive search of PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar was conducted for English-language studies published...

Sustainable Development, January 2026

Poverty reduction remains a significant challenge globally, despite extensive efforts at both national and international levels.Past studies have observed that households are not only poor but also vulnerable to poverty and have suggested enhancing theircoping capacity to end poverty. Recently, women's empowerment (WE) has gained attention among policymakers because ofits effectiveness in increasing household coping capacity and reducing poverty. However, there have been limited studies thatempirically examined the impact of WE on household...

Journal of International Development, January 2026

India's transformation to a future with more sustainable energy is essential for meeting rising energy demands and addressing environmental challenges. Prioritizing deployment of renewable energy can decrease fossil fuel dependence and enhance energy security. This research explores the effects of economic growth, information and communication technology (ICT) development, CO2 emissions and agricultural land expansion on renewable energy consumption in India from 1990 to 2023 by using World Bank data. Dynamics ordinary least-squares regression...

Journal of Agrarian Change, January 2026

This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft-studied but still little-understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in semi-subsistence, marginalized tracts such as the eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. First, we utilize investor analysis and corporate reporting to explain how bispyribac sodium became a ‘blockbuster’...

Journal of Public Affairs, January 2026

This study examines how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance influences green financing within India's financial sector, using cross-sectional data from 99 financial institutions for FY2023–24. Employing probit regression to estimate the likelihood of green bond issuance and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression to analyze the volume of green financing (bond proceeds and loans), the study addresses a key gap in emerging-market evidence. Results indicate that higher ESG scores significantly...

Journal of Agrarian Change, January 2026

In this paper, we revisit the relevance of the agrarian question of capital and provide evidence of the dynamism in agriculture based on an empirical enquiry. We study the possibilities, channels and patterns of agrarian accumulation and its spillover on the nonagrarian accumulation dynamics in an agriculturally advanced region lying in central India. Based on this empirical study, we posit that the agrarian question of capital remains important at a regional scale in India. By bringing the focus back on the question...

Review of Development Economics, January 2026

To reduce anaemia prevalence among children, we tested the introduction of cast iron ingots to prepare iron-enriched drinking water in pre-schools (Anganwadi centres) in Bihar, India. We implemented a randomized controlled trial among 820 Anganwadi centres with one control and two treatment arms, one arm receiving more comprehensive training and support than the other, between January and March 2020. As children's anaemia status could not be measured at follow-up due to COVID-19, we...