Editorial by James Wilhelm, Boris Kühn, Antony Mason

“…On the other hand, proponents of the sustainability concept frequently take all types of justice into account and, by often implicitly assuming that they are complementary, ignore possible trade-offs. Hence one can find a lack of intellectual endeavour focused on bridging the theoretical gap between the more traditional demands of social and international justice and intergenerational justice with real implications for policy. …”
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Key sector identification of Nepal: an integrated approach with linkage and hypothetical extraction method by Lila Ballav Bhusal

“…Agriculture emerges as the economy’s foundation, demonstrating the highest impact on both output and value-added generation, reflecting its fundamental role in employment and GDP contribution. Wholesale Trade exhibits balanced demand–supply effects through market integration, while Financial Intermediation shows strong supply-side influence through credit intermediation services. …”
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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN CONSULATES IN CHINA IN 1851–1852 by E. P. Koudryavtseva

“…None of the documents from the Archive of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were used by national historians, they only mentioned the fact, that according to the Treaty of Kulja Chinese cities Yili and Tarbagatai hosted Russian representatives that looked after trade. Documents from the Archive of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reveal how the first Russian consuls arranged Russian factories in Xinjiang, how they interacted with local authorities and traders, course of barter. …”
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E-commerce big data processing based on an improved RBF model by Lu Qiuping

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Analysis of typologies of money laundering in fulfillment of export transactions by J. M. Beketnova

“…Despite the high level of state control, the sphere of international trade is attractive to malefactors and can be used to with-draw dirty money abroad, or invest it in the legal economy under the guise of honestly earned income. …”
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Animated mesh simplification based on motion features in visual sensor networks by Hongjie Yang, Fan Zhou, Ge Lin, Mouguang Lin, Shujin Lin

“…As three-dimensional animated mesh is time-varying in all frames, the trade-off between the temporal coherence and geometric distortion must be considered to develop simplification algorithm. …”
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Prospects of China-EAEU Cooperation on Digital Economy by N. V. Yurova, Yao Jiahui

“…Based on revealing the main idea of China's Digital Silk Road and the essence of the EAEU Digital Agenda, the main promising directions for the development of cooperation between China and the EAEU in the framework of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative were identified: improve information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and facilitate Cross-Border Data Flows; expand the scope of cooperation and sign trade facilitation agreements at Union level and at the national level; move to a new level of mutually beneficial cooperation on digital economy of the China-EAEU-EU.…”
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La piratería como conflicto. Discursos sobre la propiedad intelectual en México by José Carlos G. Aguiar

“…The ‘war against piracy’ is based on the world trade legal structure. The author’s central argument is that the criminalization of piracy is not the result of a process of national interest which has as its objective the promotion and intensification of intellectual property rights or the rule of law but, rather, emerges from a punitive perspective emanating from networks of international interests and transnational actors characteristic of global neoliberalism.…”
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TAPPING THE OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT (AGOA) FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by ADIE, EDWARD IDAGU, OMALE MATTHEW ADOYI

“…These opportunities are in the areas of trade and investment, job creation and poverty alleviation, textile industry, where women can own their companies, capacity building and technical assistance, as well the oil sector. …”
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The Roma in Turkiye: Segregation in The Labour Market and Income Differentiations by Sinem Bağçe

“…For both the poorest and richest Roma, being a worker in a regular fulltime job provides much more of an increasing effect on income than the jobs in a trade. Discrimination in the labour market is a significant explanatory for all the income groups, except the richest Roma, but it has the highest impact on the poorest Roma. …”
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The cover of randomness: validating implicit methods for the study of sensitive topics by Charles Efferson, Sonja Vogt

“…This cover, in turn, allows the researcher to resolve any trade-off between methods that produce explicit granular data and methods that produce untraceable, highly aggregated data in favour of methods producing the explicit and granular.…”
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Le bleu du front de mer by Éric Foulquier, Alice Ferrari

“…Situated by the sea in the gentle breeze of the trade winds, the Caribbean city, necessarily a port, would thus have a waterfront as a fundamental structure of its public space. …”
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Volatility Dynamics of Base Metal Futures: Empirical Evidence from an Emerging Economy by Laxmidhar Samal

“…The study confirms that unlike aluminium futures market, leverage effect is found for copper futures traded at MCX, India. Similar to aluminium, it is evident that the market advances generate larger volatility than the market turbulence in the cash and futures market of nickel. …”
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Eastern Dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Europeanization Mutual Trap by V. A. Latkina

“…The mutual Europeanization trap here to be studied both for the EU and its Eastern partners (involving Russia) is a deficiency of regulating cooperation mechanism in the situation of European and Eurasian free trades zones overlapping. Vilnius Summit 2013 results test the "European aspirations" of the New Independent States and upset the ongoing process of the European Neighbourhood Policy in the context of growing economic interdependence in Wider Europe. …”
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Exploring Critical Factors Affecting Contractors’ Coopetition Relationship in International Construction Projects by Lili Gao, Xiaopeng Deng, Weimin Yang, Tengyuan Chang

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Reparative Justice Vis-a Vis the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean. Interregional perspectives by Claudia Rauhut

“…This paper deals with the current demands of compensation for the damages and crimes caused by the transatlantic slave trade of African persons and from the institution of slavery in the Americas. …”
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Cotton textiles from the Byzantine period to the Medieval period in ancient Palestine by Orit Shamir

“…It will discuss the possible origin of the cotton textiles, and the co-development of the textile trade and local production, through the Late Antique and medieval periods.…”
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The Demise of Modernist Buildings in Khor Dubai: A Case Study on the FNCB Building by Rasha Saffarini

“…It witnessed profound architectural transformations in three economic phases:  the pearl trade, oil discovery, and real estate. Today, early modernist buildings have been replaced with high-rise buildings to meet the financial demands of real estate. …”
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EFFECT OF LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT ON THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED CONSUMER GOODS COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Adenike A OYEWUNMI

“… Insolvency and bankruptcy have been the bane of many consumer goods companies CGCs due to frequent challenges such as slow inventory turnover, inefficient collection processes, and poor trade credit policies in consumer goods companies which have been negatively impacting cash flow, liquidity management, and customer payment behavior, thus resulting in bad debt and financial crisis. …”
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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

“…The novel is set in a colonial plantation in Bahai, a Northeastern province in Brazil, where plantations owned by Portuguese colonisers operationalized tenant farming, installing slaves brought in from Africa during the Transatlantic trade as bonded labourers. The paper examines how Afro-Brazilian religious rituals facilitate political mobilization and agential potentialities using insights from affect theory. …”
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