Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) guide towards sustainability across a
broad palette of aspects. Since their adoption by the United Nations in 2015, many …

This study aimed to examine the impact of China's political openness index and foreign
direct investment on its ecotourism index from 1985 to 2019. The findings revealed that a 1 …

Secular stagnation, escalating socio-ecological crises, and the urgent need to scale back
resource use in affluent countries make reductions in economic output increasingly likely. In …

It is widely believed that China's socialist economy had relatively high rates of extreme
poverty while the capitalist reforms of the 1980s and 1990s delivered rapid progress. This …

Scholarship on the social determinants of health and disease has become firmly established
over the past several decades. This school of thought has created space for academics and …

This article provides a conceptual background to the general theme of this Special Issue 'On
Imperialism in the Middle East'. First, we posit that the concept of imperialism can be …

Promoting decent work and sustainable economic growth within the framework of
Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG 8) entails addressing gender inequality, the …

Over the past several years, a new narrative about global poverty has become entrenched in
mainstream discourse. It holds that extreme poverty—a condition of absolute deprivation …

In this paper we examine the interrelatedness between regime types of democracy and non-
democracy and poverty reduction. The liberal international order and democratic principles …

Global energy justice remains far out of reach. If the goal of energy justice is the universal,
equitable, and democratic provision of safe, affordable, and sustainable energy services, the …