This study examines Shanghai Jahwa United Co., Ltd. (2020–2024) through the Harvard Analytical Framework, revealing a distinct financial pressure transmission mechanism that afflicts legacy C-beauty firms. Our cross-dimensional analysis—spanning strategy, accounting, finance, and outlook—shows that brand aging and slow digital adoption directly erode profitability and asset turnover, placing Jahwa at a clear disadvantage against peers like Proya and CHANDO. Beyond extending the HAF to the fast-moving C-beauty sector, we propose a conceptual model for how financial distress cascades through traditional cosmetics firms. For management, the findings point to two actionable priorities: streamlining the brand portfolio and reinforcing supply chain responsiveness.

This study examines the relationship between globalisation and primary energy consumption using an unbalanced panel of 170 countries from 2000 to 2023. Employing fixed-effects models, the study finds that globalisation is positively associated with energy consumption. The positive relationship remains robust across alternative specifications. Further analysis of the three dimensions of globalisation shows that social globalisation has a significant positive association with energy consumption, whereas economic and political globalisation are not statistically significant. The findings suggest that the energy implications of globalisation may differ across its dimensions and that the additional energy demand associated with deeper international integration may outweigh potential efficiency gains.

From the dual perspective of supply and demand, this study takes the 11 prefecture-level cities of China’s Jiangxi Province as research subjects to measure and project the demand-side security level, supply-side security level, and their evolutionary trends for enterprise employee’ pension insurance from 2025 to 2045. It systematically analyzes the spatial pattern of pension security across the three major regions of Jiangxi: northern Jiangxi, central Jiangxi, and southern Jiangxi. The findings are as follows. First, the demand-side pension security level in all prefecture-level cities has been rising continuously, with a “catch-up effect” observed among late-developing cities. However, the absolute disparity in demand-side security levels among cities has continued to widen, while the relative disparity exhibits a U-shaped evolution, with pronounced hierarchical rigidity. Second, the provincial pension supply can fully cover the demand without systemic shortfall. Nevertheless, the surplus margin—defined as the supply-side security level minus the demand-side security level—shows significant spatial differentiation. Cities such as Yingtan and Ganzhou face medium- and long-term tight balance risks between pension supply and demand, representing weak links in the regional pension system. On this basis, this study proposes countermeasures including the establishment of a differentiated dynamic adjustment mechanism for pensions and the improvement of a provincial-level fund coordination and reallocation system.

In the context of rapid digital transformation worldwide and in Vietnam, digital finance has increasingly emerged as a key driver of economic growth by improving resource allocation efficiency and strengthening linkages among economic actors. Following the administrative merger, Phu Tho Province has experienced an expanded economic development space, creating an urgent need to effectively leverage digital platforms to foster local economic growth. Against this backdrop, this paper evaluates the current state of digital finance development and analyzes its role in promoting economic growth in Phu Tho Province during the post-merger period. The findings provide policy implications for enhancing digital finance development and supporting sustainable economic growth in the province.

In recent years, the process of rural industrialization has become a significant way for achieving balanced regional development, job creation, poverty reduction and economic diversification in rural regions. Rural industrialisation is an important component in rural transformation in Arunachal Pradesh, a mainly agrarian and tribal state in which the traditional occupation of people is agriculture and the lack of non-farm jobs is a serious concern. The state has rich natural resources of bamboo, cane, forests products, medicinal plants, horticulture and traditional handicrafts which can build a solid foundation for rural industry. This article aims to explore the trends, growth pattern, opportunity and challenges in the process of rural industrialization in Arunachal Pradesh. Secondary data gathered from government reports, research articles and policy documents were used for the study. The results show that the rate of industrialisation is rather low, but the growth of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), agro-based industries, handicrafts, handloom activities and village enterprises has played a significant role in the economic development of rural areas. Nevertheless, infrastructural limitations, market constraints, lack of adequate finance and technological constraints are still a major constraint in growth of the sector. The study finds that if enabled by proper policy, institutional, technological and market integration measures, sustainable rural industrialization can be a game-changer in the economic development of Arunachal Pradesh.

This systematic literature review examined the relationship between talent development programmes and organizational resilience, with particular focus on how talent on-the-job training, structured talent mentoring, career path planning, and talent performance evaluation contribute to employee commitment, job resourcefulness, and employee innovative behavior as dimensions of organizational resilience in commercial banks. The review adopted the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA 2020) guidelines. A comprehensive electronic search spanning nine major academic databases, including Scopus, Web of Science, and Emerald Insight, covered publications from 1958 to 2026. Following systematic screening and quality assessment, 115 studies were retained for thematic narrative synthesis. The study found that talent development programmes are positively and consistently associated with organizational resilience across diverse national, sectoral, and institutional contexts. Each of the four talent development dimensions, namely talent on-the-job training, structured talent mentoring, career path planning, and talent performance evaluation, independently and collectively generates the employee commitment, job resourcefulness, and employee innovative behavior outcomes that constitute workforce-level organizational resilience. Perceived organizational support moderates all four dimensions, amplifying their resilience-generating effects when employees simultaneously perceive high organizational care for their contributions and well-being. This review is the first systematic literature review to examine all four talent development programme dimensions as an integrated framework and their combined contribution to three distinct dimensions of organizational resilience. It fills a significant geographical gap by centering its analysis on the Sub-Saharan African commercial banking context, specifically Nigeria and Rivers State, and provides theoretically grounded, practically actionable evidence for bank management and human resource practitioners seeking to build resilient workforces in rapidly changing banking environments.

Competition is a driver of innovation and creativity in any sector of the economy. However, where a public good like education is concerned, it is ideal that competition be regulated and controlled. This paper analyzes the key drivers of competition in the tertiary education sector of Botswana. The tertiary education sector of Botswana has been experiencing rapid growth over the past fifteen years due to the huge investment in education and skills development by the government. From the year 2006, the government of Botswana has been sponsoring leaners to study locally in both public and private tertiary education institutions. This has led to the establishment and growth of many private tertiary education institutions over the past decade and half. Consequently, the sector has grown to a level causing intense competition among institutions in the sector. Data was collected from reports published by BQA and HRDC as well as published journal articles. The study established that, the flexibility of regulatory policies, the growth rate of the sector, the size, scope and behavior of institutions and the homogeneity of programmes offered by institutions are the key drivers of competition in the sector. As private institutions face intense rivalry in the sector, they are forced to adopt survival strategies. The paper also examines survival strategies that tertiary education institutions are implementing in the light of intensive rivalry. The study also proposes regulatory interventions that may be instituted to control the level of competition in the tertiary education sector of Botswana.