Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

1967 - 2025

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Volume 99, issue C, 2025

Divergent growth paths: Conflict, state capacity, and convergence clubs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Juan J. Villar-Roldan, Aida Galiano and Juan Manuel Martín-Álvarez

Evaluation and improvement of agricultural green total factor energy efficiency: The perspective of the closest target

Jiarong Zhang, Meijuan Li and Zijie Shen

Quantifying political effects in the spatial allocation of public services

Anders Fredriksson and Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes

Multidimensional poverty in Benin

Esmeralda Arranhado, Lágida Barbosa and João Bastos

Pareto improvement in a dual-channel closed-loop supply chain system by integrating product sustainability and consumer focus

Manojit Das, Mostafijur Rahaman, Shariful Alam, Dipak Kumar Jana, Anas A. Salameh, Saleh Al Sulaie, Hengbin Yin and Ali Ahmadian

The impact of highway improvements on new firm location in underdeveloped regions: Evidence from China

Mengyi Cui, Shaoxin Shen and Fengtian Zheng

The new mode for promoting the redevelopment of urban villages in China: A research on the behavior of stakeholders

Qilong Wang, Wei Sun and Qi Yin

Scale measurement and economic effect evaluation of smart agriculture in China

Shaohua Zhang, Rentao Chen, Jian Wu and Ning Zhu

The role of the institutional supply chain in the transition from the linear to the circular paradigm: The Italian case

Massimiliano Agovino, Antonio Garofalo, Katia Marchesano, Simona Monteleone and Gaetano Musella

Index generation for good governance via multiplicative data envelopment analysis

Ayça Özekin and Fadime Aksoy

Fairness-oriented multi-objective optimization of supply chain planning under uncertainties

Zijing Yang and Songsong Liu

The Faster the Healthier: China's High-Speed Rail Expansion and Mental Health

Haoran Yang, Xin Zhang, Jingyang Liu and Jing Wen

A game theoretic framework for analyzing milk supply chain safety and quality

Emad Zamiri-Noghreh, Soroush Safarzadeh and Mohammad Ranjbar

Using an inclusive attribute value function based approach to evaluate the operation performance of high-speed railway network

Wencheng Huang, Xinxin Li, Yanhui Yin, Haoran Li and Yaocheng Yu

Comparisons of emission trading scheme implementation modes in a low-carbon supply chain

Xiaoyan Wang, Qiang Du, Jinzhao Shi, Jingtao Li and Libiao Bai

Analysis of green e-commerce supply chain considering delivery time under reward–penalty mechanism based on confidence level

Rong Gao, Kexin Hua, Xiaosheng Wang and Jie Wei

Integrating logistics planning and population sampling decisions for humanitarian needs assessment

Duygu Pamukcu, Melih Çelik and Burcu Balçık

Sustainable food waste supply chain network design problem with government environmental oversight: Globalized robust bi-level model and exact algorithm

Yuexia Wang, Hongyan Ma and Ying Liu

International differences in educational equity: An assessment using the Benefit of the Doubt model

D’Inverno, Giovanna, Cristina Polo, Gabriela Sicilia and Rosa Simancas

Risky decline? Exploring the determinants of pupil's proficiency development over time

Melisa L. Diaz Lema, Chiara Masci, Mara Soncin and Tommaso Agasisti

Predicting radiology service times for enhancing emergency department management

Davide Aloini, Elisabetta Benevento, Marco Berdini and Alessandro Stefanini

Financing road projects and its impact on off-farm work in rural China

Ligao Bao, Motoi Kusadokoro and Atsushi Chitose

Modeling cost-effectiveness analysis of treatment sequencing

Cristina del Campo, Jiaru Bai and L. Robin Keller

A general series network slacks-based measure approach for non-controllable inputs and undesirable outputs in mixed integer data envelopment analysis: An application to airport operations

Mushtaq Taleb

Tradeoffs between equity and efficiency in Coordinated Entry of homeless housing systems

Dashi I. Singham, Mary McDonald and Robert Elliot

Machine learning-based prediction of energy poverty in Bangladesh: Unveiling key socioeconomic drivers for targeted policy actions

Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Ajoy Rjbongshi, Bikash Pal, Kanchan Kumar Sen and Andrew J. Chapman

Carrot or stick? How to effectively manage non-scale farming waste in rural areas

Jie Jin, Xinyue Ren, Xunzhuo Xi and Qiuhong Zhao

Addressing community oppositions in biowaste incineration infrastructure: Key factors and strategic solutions for a sustainable circular bioeconomy

Zhongcheng Cai, Yong Liu, Ye Shen, Martin Skitmore and Shiwang Yu

Sustainability measurement, analysis and assessment for different domains and territorial levels

Cristian Barra

An SDG composite index based on Hierarchical DEA and Cooperative Game Theory

Sebastián Lozano and Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves

An integrated decision framework for landfill mining site selection using GIS, multi-criteria analysis, and optimization models

Tai-Hsi Wu, Chun-Yuan Chen, Shi-Wei Huang and Teng-To Yu

A novel integration of analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy logic to evaluate drought vulnerability in a semiarid region

Leandro Arthur Vieira Vaz, Hamilcar José Almeida Filgueira, Eliamin Eldan Queiroz Rosendo, Richarde Marques da Silva and Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos

Volume 98, issue C, 2025

Impact of family members’ perception bias on service strategies of elder care institutions

Xiaoxiao Wang and Changyong Liang

COVID-19 and the changing profiles of poverty in India: A fuzzy set analysis and imputation approach using PLFS data

Fernando Flores Tavares and Alessandro Carraro

A sustainable vaccine supply-production-distribution network with heterologous and homologous vaccination strategies: Bi-objective optimization

Ali Jahed, Seyyed Mohammad Hadji Molana and Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam

Assessing changes in wealth index using primary survey data

Sandeep Kumar, S. Chakraverty and Narayan Sethi

Optimal evaluation policies to identify students with reading disabilities

Akshaya Suresh, Edward H. Kaplan, Edieal J. Pinker and Jeffrey R. Gruen

Measuring efficiency in tourism: A problem of shared factors and multiple attributes in DEA

Sonia Valeria Avilés-Sacoto, Estefanía Caridad Avilés-Sacoto, Wade D. Cook and David Güemes-Castorena

Enhancing SMEs sustainable innovation and performance through digital transformation: Insights from strategic technology, organizational dynamics, and environmental adaptation

Shaofeng Wang and Hao Zhang

Does regional economic development drive sustainable grain production growth in China? Evidence from spatiotemporal perspective on low-carbon total factor productivity

Ruixue Wang, Xiangzheng Deng, Yunxiao Gao and Jiancheng Chen

Integrating circular economy principles into a modified theory of Planned Behaviour: Exploring customer intentions and experiences with collaborative consumption on Airbnb

Umair Tanveer, Shara Nica Agung Sahara, Marios Kremantzis and Shamaila Ishaq

An integrative approach to reviewing the literature on judicial efficiency in Europe

Miguel Alves Pereira, Luiza Badin, Kristiaan Kerstens and Maria Conceição Silva

Towards gender equality in education: Different strategies to improve subnational performance of European countries using data envelopment analysis

Dovilė Stumbrienė, José L. Ruiz and Inmaculada Sirvent

Using Artificial Intelligence/machine learning to evaluate the distribution of community development aid across Myanmar

Woojin Jung, Saeed Ghadimi, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis and Andrew H. Kim

Data depth for mixed-type data through MDS. An application to biological age imputation

Ignacio Cascos, Aurea Grané and Jingye Qian

A smart and agile dry port-seaport logistic network considering industry 5.0: A multi-stage data-driven approach

Shabnam Rekabi and Zeinab Sazvar

Estimating potential economic savings of water utilities due to improvements on technical and allocative inefficiencies

Alexandros Maziotis, Ramon Sala-Garrido, Manuel Mocholi-Arce and Maria Molinos-Senante

Unleashing efficiency potential: The power of non-convex double frontiers in sustainable transportation supply chains

Reza Farzipoor Saen, Balal Karimi and Amirali Fathi

Strategies to control corruption in economic development: The role of government spending and public satisfaction

Shih-Yung Chiu, Hsiu-Wan Hung, Chih-Yu Yang, Chiu-Mi Chen and Yung-ho Chiu

Social network of peer-to-peer accommodations for a visual decision support system in tourism: The case of the Canary Islands

Víctor A. Vargas-Pérez, Oscar Cordón, Manuel Chica and Juan M. Hernández

A hybrid optimization approach for designing sustainable intermodal freight transport under mixed uncertainty

Shahab Rahiminia, Amir Mehrabi, Armin Jabbarzadeh and Mohsen Pourseyed Aghaee

Sustainable planning of penal facilities through multi-objective location-allocation modelling and data envelopment analysis

Atıl Kurt and Mehmet Gumus

Perceived bidirectional coordination on disaster-induced health-related efforts among decision-making units

Samantha Shane Evangelista, Charldy Wenceslao, Rica Villarosa, Fatima Maturan, Nadine May Atibing and Lanndon Ocampo

Information acquisition, disclosure, and financing strategy in a capital-constrained supply chain

Lin Zhao

How does townships’ economic landscape affect urban–rural income inequality in China?

Rongrong Dou, Bingrui Zhu, Wei Chen, Qiao Li, Sun Zhang and Wenzhe Xu

Beyond the land quantity: Rethinking the role of land quality in agriculture from the efficiency perspective

Baishu Guo and Gui Jin

Tracks to tech equity: How high-speed rail bridges the digital divide within cities? Prefecture-level evidence from China

Hang Yuan and Wei Feng

Risk management of the vaccine supply chain: Interactions of risk factors and control strategies

Manyi Yang, Shaojian Qu, Ying Ji and Zhisheng Peng

Publicness in highway projects: A multi-criteria decision-making approach to public-private partnerships

Eun Hak Lee and Ho-Chul Park

Mathematical programming in public bus transit design and operations: Emerging technologies and sustainability – A review

Reza Mahmoudi, Saeid Saidi and Ali Emrouznejad

Convergence of sustainable development goals evolution and Five-Year Plans reform: Lessons from China

Zhibin Hu, Guangdong Wu, Tao Wang and Haixia Yuan

San Francisco Bay area community cohesion and resilience: Two case studies

Alexander Gilgur and Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez

Promoting safe and pro-environmental behaviors for sustainable forest management: Integrating technology acceptance model and the norm activation model

Moslem Savari and Bagher Khaleghi

The PLS-PM approach to analyze the quality of health services over time

Corrado Crocetta, Laura Antonucci, Rosanna Cataldo, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Marina Marino and Rocco Mazza

ANP/GCR-based SWOT method for making group strategic decisions with consensus reaching

Yuan-Wei Du, Ya-Lu Sun and Qun Chen

Does public satisfaction with government environmental performance promote their participation in environmental protection?

Huanyu Jia and Boqiang Lin

The drivers of forest carbon sink density changes in China under forest area heterogeneity: A production-theoretical decomposition analysis

Yan Huang, Mengjiao Zhang, Nan Wu and Jinhuang Lin

Evaluation of Green Deal compliance performance with a hybrid comparative multi-attribute decision model

Mehmet Karadag, Muhammet Gul, Melih Yucesan, Miguel Ortiz-Barrios, Alessio Ishizaka and Jehangir Khan

Managing production capacity reserves for emergency supplies: A public-private option contract model with a loss-averse supplier

Ning Yu, Jun Tian, Gengzhong Feng, Yang Liu and Mohammad Moshtari

A multi-stage machine learning model to design a sustainable-resilient-digitalized pharmaceutical supply chain

Mostafa Jafarian, Iraj Mahdavi, Ali Tajdin and Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee

Enhancing food security at the last-mile: A light-weight and scalable decision support system for the public distribution system in India

S. Sivanandham and S. Srivatsa Srinivas

Optimizing training efficiency amid postgraduate enrollment expansion: A new parallel network DEA allocation model

Jiqiang Zhao, Lijun Cheng, Xianhua Wu and Lei Zhao

Deprivation cost theory in humanitarian relief: A literature review and prospects

Sheng Zhong and Longsheng Wang

Performance evaluation of Chinese and foreign property insurance companies considering negative data: Based on the dynamic two-stage IBP-SBM model

Peide Liu, Huizhi Sun and Hongxue Xu

Dynamic decision-making of the e-commerce supply chain considering greenwashing and sales format

Liying Yu, Hui Xu and Ziyuan Zhang

A hybrid decision support system for transport policy selection: A case study on Russia's Northern Sea route in Artic region

Galip Cihan Yalçın, Elif Gürdal Limon, Karahan Kara, Onur Limon, Pınar Gürol, Muhammet Deveci, Özgür Demirayak and Hana Tomášková

The local effects and neighborhood effects of high-speed railway on urban entrepreneurial vitality: Evidence from China

Wei Jiang, Nana Jiang and Ke-Liang Wang

Analysis of crime around a low-barrier, rotating homeless shelter

Jennifer Wilking, Greg Madonia and Peter Hansen

Cluster-based healthcare network design problem with referral system using a hybrid genetic algorithm

Luqi Wang, Guoqing Yang and Jianmin Xu

Predicting policy funding allocation with Machine Learning

Nicola Caravaggio, Giuliano Resce and Cristina Vaquero-Piñeiro

Exploring social, economic, and ecological drivers of human well-being in the Qinling Mountains, China

Chenlu Li, Qian Wang, Wen Xiang, Huixia Wang, Zuoqiang Yuan, Fei Yu and Wenfang Xie

Demand information disclosure in fresh produce supply chain considering competition between geographical indication and local suppliers

Zhenjiang Chen, Bin Dan, Ting Lei and Songxuan Ma

Does public data access improve fiscal transparency? --On a quasi-natural experiment from government data platform access

Ning Han, Peixian Liu, Fanglei Zhong and Dezhao Zhao

The time-definite hub line location problem

Esteban Ogazón, Ana María Anaya-Arenas and Angel Ruiz