Assessing Private Investment in African Renewable Energy Infrastructure: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach

Baumli, Kenny; Jamasb, Tooraj

doi:10.3390/su12229425

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“…In the beginning, SF was created to assist social ventures with their financial needs. Even though SF can create both social and financial value, social ventures sometimes face difficulties accessing different financial markets due to their nature and high risk [23][24][25][26][27]. Secondly, most European governments have recognised the potential and possibile of growth of SF.…”

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Social Finance and Banking Research as a Driver for Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Social finance and banking with an embedded social purpose have been on the rise in recent decades. Social entrepreneurs have repeatedly stressed the critical need for financial support from social banks. This study aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of the status of the field in social finance and banking, recognising main topics from existing research and establishing future re-search challenges. Our study used science mapping workflow and multiple research questions to investigate the broad literature about social banking and finance. With in-depth bibliometric analysis, authors examined qualitative and quantitative variables as primary research infor-mation, relevant sources, subject areas, authors data, social, thematic and intellectual structure. The data was retrieved from Web of Science (WOS) and then analysed using Bibliometrix R-package. The analysis was based on a sample of 270 articles and demonstrates a multidisciplinary vision of the research flow investigated. Our results show several insights regarding journals, authors and geographical interest of this research stream. Specifically, the literature, although dwelling on social finance and banking, includes five theoretical and practical clusters as (1) people’s well-being, combined with technological innovation, (2) governance, (3) ethical investment and sustainable development, (4) corporate social responsibility (CSR), and (5) transparency. The authors also note a line of research that observes technological solutions for the response to social and environmental problems. These results may be useful for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to foster social finance and financial system tools.

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Social Finance and Banking Research as a Driver for Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Analysis

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“…Ref. [213] studied the decision-making between financing and not financing renewable energy matrices on the African continent and concluded that investor confidence in regulatory effectiveness is the main concern, besides local construction capacity and political instruments [213]. In non-quantitative approaches, there are also studies without a sample directed to country/continent, such as [214][215][216][217][218][219].…”

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Renewable Energy, Economic Growth and Economic Development Nexus: A Bibliometric Analysis

Oliveira

Moutinho

2021

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The present research aims to conduct a systemic review on Renewable Energy, Economic Growth and Economic Development and look for links between the papers published between 2008 and May 2021. Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology, it was possible to reach a sample of 111 articles selected by Web of Science and a sample of 199 academic articles selected by Scopus in that specific period. The analysis of the group of Renewable and Non-renewable Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and Economic Development shows that most of the articles published in this subsample use the quantitative methodology in economic sciences. The results indicate that research on the subject has a growing trend and that most of the articles are post-2015 publications. In addition, China has been the leading nation in published works. The journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is considered the most relevant in this category, and Sustainability has the most publications. Finally, a research gap was identified to be explored, lacking studies aimed at understanding the consumption of renewable energies and economic development and studies that focus on renewable energies and economic growth in less developed economies.

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“…Thus, this method is widely used in several fields of study including the food supply chain. For instance, fuzzy TOPSIS was used in several fields in the literature such as financial performance evaluation [36], supplier selection [5,37,38], optimal site selection [39,40], renewable energy infrastructure [41], quality management [42], construction and infrastructure [43,44], and maintenance planning [45], etc.…”

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Sustainable Configuration of the Tunisian Olive Oil Supply Chain Using a Fuzzy TOPSIS-Based Approach

2021

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Agricultural production of olive oil is a sector with high significance. The olive sector is a very important sector for several countries in the world, in particular, for Tunisia. In addition, the impacts of olive oil production and extraction on economic, environmental, and social issues are considerable. The main objective of this work is to propose a better configuration of the Tunisian olive oil supply chain (OOSC) from a sustainable development (SD) perspective. The proposed approach consists of applying a fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method as a multi-criteria approach. The proposed approach is applied twice. In the first application, the objective is to compare five possible scenarios for the olive agricultural phase. In the second application, the objective is to compare three possible scenarios for the olive oil transformation phase. The major findings of this research include the following: (1) The best scenario for the agricultural phase is the intensified organic system, which is based on biodynamic olive growing. (2) The best scenario for the transformation phase (oil extraction) is the continuous two-phase extraction system. Consequently, the efficient way for the by-products processing phase is the use of wet pomace for the preparation of biodynamic compost.

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Assessing Private Investment in African Renewable Energy Infrastructure: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach

Cited by 19 publications

References 37 publications

Social Finance and Banking Research as a Driver for Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Analysis

Social Finance and Banking Research as a Driver for Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Analysis

Renewable Energy, Economic Growth and Economic Development Nexus: A Bibliometric Analysis

Sustainable Configuration of the Tunisian Olive Oil Supply Chain Using a Fuzzy TOPSIS-Based Approach

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