A recent study out of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna found that companies with female board members tend to perform better. The analysis, published in the journal Empirical Economics, examined the relationship between female board appointments and corporations’ financial performance, based on data from about 4.000 Japanese firms collected between 2004 and 2013. This is one of the largest samples ever analyzed for developed economies.

New drugs and technologies covered by insurance plans can be much more profitable than those not covered, which may lead to bias in cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) funded by pharmaceutical or other medical industry firms. The research team gleaned its data by analysing the results of more than 8,000 CEAs published between 1976 and March 2021. Nearly 30 per cent of these CEAs were sponsored by industry.

Almost half of surveyed Ghanaian adults exhibited stigma and discriminatory tendencies towards COVID-19 survivors - indicating a need for public education

A new study published in the CABI Agriculture and Bioscience journal highlights that pests, diseases, and drought, are the main challenges to pumpkin and watermelon production in Uganda. A range of recommendations are presented to help the country’s pumpkin and watermelon farmers increase their yields to help improve their livelihoods and food security.