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In humanitarian settings, public health emergencies (PHE) are often one of many crises facing communities, governments and response actors. Evidence from the social sciences and other disciplines can inform decisions about effective actions and interventions in response to these events. To maximise the chance that evidence during PHE impacts those affected, it must be useful and usable to those involved. These "end users" of evidence may include government or non-governmental actors, UN or academic researchers, civil society groups, and communities. Aim of this brief This brief draws on the collective experience of social scientists with experience in operational and implementation research for public health emergencies in humanitarian settings to highlight some practical guidelines and suggestions for ensuring that evidence can influence change. Through concrete examples and links to tools, this brief is designed to support teams in generating and presenting robust, credible, and reliable social sciences evidence to inform public health responses in humanitarian contexts. Audience: The target audience for this brief is field teams working in humanitarian settings who conduct social science research that aims to improve the operational response to public health emergencies.

1. Introduction -- 2.Language, Literature and Cultural Identity: A Case Study of Malaysian Tamil Diaspora -- 3. Girmit as a Global Labour Regime: Essentials, Expansion and Exceptions -- 4. Tracing the Girmitiya Consciousness in Bhojpuri Folkloric Songs: A Study of Select Bhojpuri Video Songs -- 5. The Poetics of Unsung Chutney Singer Lakhan Karriah of Trinidad -- 6. Poetics of the Crossing (Re)routing Identity in Indenture -- 7. Convicts as the Indentured Labour: Role and Contribution of Indians to the Development Works in the Southeast Asia -- 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage: A Case study of Girmitya in Mauritius -- 9. Reality and Illusion about India In Girmitiya literature: A Study on Capildeo Family -- 10. Resurgence of Girmitiya; Journey through Indian Diaspora -- 11. The Girmityas and Power Politics: A Genealogical Analysis of Colonial Fiji -- 12. Relocating cultural identity: Pattern and Conditions of Indian Diaspora in Fiji -- 13. Articulating Experiences and Unterrable sufferings of Girmitiyas in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies -- 14. Indentured Labour Migration from Bombay Presidency: A study of Marathi speaking Community in Mauritius -- 15. Vivid Girmitiya Sacraments: A Study of Ganga and Ganga Talao -- 16. Swadeshi Girmitology: A Critical Study of Eurocentric History of the Indian Indenture System with Indian perspective.

Purpose
This paper aims to analyse, the issue concerning the quality of inward foreign direct investments (FDI) by empirically investigating the role of four sustainability determinants of FDI, namely, economic, environmental, social and governance using data from 22 developing countries of the Asian region over a period from 2000–2016.


Design/methodology/approach
The methodology adopted to achieve this purpose is dynamic panel estimation (two-step difference generalised method of moments) by developing three econometric models. The data is sourced from the World Development, Worldwide Governance Indicators, International Telecommunication Union and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.


Findings
The econometric results indicate that, in general, control of corruption, political stability and electricity consumption influence sustainable FDI favourably; and CO2 emissions lower the extent of sustainable FDI. The result underlines deficiencies in the information technology aspect, which has a non-significant yet positive relationship with sustainable FDI. A pertinent finding of this study is that the past value of FDI inflows increases the current year's FDI inflows in developing countries.


Practical implications
The findings related to gender and information technology aspects found in this paper will be of interest to both researchers and policymakers for substantially reorienting the sustainability attributes to foreign investment.


Originality/value
The authors' main contributions are to encapsulate the conceptual framework into an empirical model by combining all the four dimensions, namely, environmental, economic, social and governance for developing countries.

This article assesses how the use of economic analysis and quantitative tools has evolved in merger assessments in India and draws a comparison with practices in two of the advanced jurisdictions, the United States and the European Union. In addition, this article identifies the trends and the gaps that still persist in India, in terms of the adoption of analytical approaches in merger analysis.

The real heroines in the fight against COVID-19 are women'.1 Significant attention has been given to women political leaders in highincome settings, where it has been reported that women have led several countries' effective national responses to COVID-19.2 However, little attention has been given to the role of women as leaders and decision makers in conflict settings. In conflict settings, COVID-19 is a multidimensional and existential crisis for many: a pandemic colliding with poor governance, insecurity, instability, other disease outbreaks (eg, cholera), disintegrated health and education systems, and food insecurity.3 These have dire consequences for vulnerable populations in conflict settings, including women and girls.4 Pandemics are a gendered vulnerability, with their socioeconomic impact disproportionately higher among women. 5 6 In this article, we argue that cultivating and harnessing the advancements of women's leadership globally and implementing a gender inclusive lens in pandemic preparedness and responses by including the experiences and voices of women in conflict settings is paramount. This will in turn create effective leadership models, as well as improving women and girls' access to adequate healthcare in conflict settings.