The Mechanisms That Will Ensure Development and Sustainable Economies in Developing Countries

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  • Mocheudi Martinus Selepe Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51137/wrp.ijarbm.923

Keywords:

Mechanisms, Development, Economies, Productivity, Efficiency, Growth, Investment, and Sustainability

Abstract

This study examines various mechanisms for ensuring development and sustainable economies in developing countries. The main objective of the study is to identify the best strategies to improve development and sustainable economies within developing countries. The study also explores the challenges facing developing countries in the development and sustainability of their economies. The study seeks to identify gaps and mechanisms that will improve economic development and transformation in developing countries. The study adopted a conceptual approach that relies heavily on secondary data to demonstrate the role of the mechanisms that will ensure development and sustainable economies within developing countries. In recent decades, productivity, efficiency, and spillovers of natural resources have become crucial elements of sustainable growth and development. In developing economies, there are critical sustainability challenges, with both productivity and efficiency being relatively low. Another overriding challenge for developing countries is the inefficient use of natural resources, which leads to overconsumption. The increase in resource consumption efficiency is crucial to reducing the negative impact of human actions on the environment. A high level of productivity also plays an important role in reducing environmental pressure. Efficiency and sustainability are linked through ecoefficiency, key to sustainable development, and relevant to market-based economies where industrial pressure is intense. The low level of investment in financial markets remains a problem for developing countries. Global investment in these countries highlights a crisis of market capitalization in the subsistence sectors, an issue for the protection of natural resources. The study concludes with an exposition of the mechanisms that will refine development and sustainable economies in developing countries.

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2026-07-08

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Selepe, M. M. (2026). The Mechanisms That Will Ensure Development and Sustainable Economies in Developing Countries. International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, 7(8). https://doi.org/10.51137/wrp.ijarbm.923