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Cash transfers might offer immediate support, but lasting economic empowerment depends on women’s access to jobs, assets and productive resources.
360info · Sangita Dutta Gupta BML Munjal University, Haryana M Manjula Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
Geothermal energy and nickel-supported electric vehicles are often cited as energy transition efforts in Indonesia. Ironically, these practices have caused environmental and socio-economic crises.
360info · Parid Ridwanuddin Universitas Paramadina, Indonesia
Despite record clean-energy generation and strong public support, political resistance, divisive media narratives and community mistrust threaten progress.
360info · Elianor Gerrard University of Technology, Sydney Jonathan Rispler University of Technology, Sydney
Research traces how partisan outlets link climate-delay narratives, fossil-fuel interests and audiences, reshaping regional energy debates and public trust.
360info · Klaus Groebner University of Queensland, Brisbane Daniel Angus University of Queensland, Brisbane
India’s claims of a dramatic decline in poverty rest on questionable comparisons, methodological gaps and an economic record that tells a rather different story.
360info · Santosh Mehrotra Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Australia’s renewable energy transition will succeed only if it delivers lasting benefits to the regional communities that host it.
360info · Chris Briggs, Saori Miyake and Elianor Gerrard Energy Futures Research Centre, UTS university, Sydney, Australia
The harder a company pushes to measure individual AI productivity, the stronger the reason it gives each employee using it to keep that productivity out of view. So the gains leaders most need to see become the ones employees have the least reason to reveal. Ricardo Viana Vargas , Joao Henrique Jacinto and Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez call this the “AI disclosure paradox”.
LSE Business Review · Ricardo Viana Vargas and Joao Henrique Jacinto and Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Emotional ambivalence – the simultaneous experience of positive and negative feelings at work – may undermine employees navigating complex work situations. Dave Arena Jr. , Phoenix Chen , Allie Gabriel and Kristen Jones find that among pregnant women this leads to lower confidence and higher turnover. But it can be prevented by different forms of interpersonal support.
LSE Business Review · Dave Arena Jr. and Phoenix Chen and Allie Gabriel and Kristen Jones
Since January 2025, many US federal actions affecting research have looked like isolated administrative decisions. A new report by #DefendResearch and Research Consulting, drawing on 244 academic and news sources, shows that together they form a consistent pattern. Rob Johnson outlines what the report found and what it means for research systems beyond the US.
LSE Impact · Rob Johnson
Twenty years ago the term “bamboo ceiling” was first used to describe the barriers to Asian Americans leading multinational firms. And the numbers have barely moved since. But Eugene Cha-Navarro argues that the traits blamed for holding Asian professionals back are building blocks of organisational capability, well suited to top-tier executive leadership if organisations know how to deploy them. Here she introduces her concept of “bamboo resilience”.
LSE Business Review · Eugene Cha-Navarro
Academic journals comprise communities of scholars working on related subjects. This presents a range of potential conflicts of interest. Commenting on two recent studies on editorial impartiality and citation concentrations, Adam Arian and John Sands consider the downstream effects of conflicts of interest and make the case for greater editorial accountability.
LSE Impact · Adam Arian and John Sands
Many workers choose to work as freelancers to avoid intense and long work hours. But that is not always what they get. See Pok Loa finds that many freelance workers feel intense pressure to be busy both at work and at leisure. He describes how our perceptions of time are shaped by our emotions and looks at the arguments for a shorter working week instead.
LSE Business Review · See Pok Loa