the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with … special attention to the rise of development economics. Given the challenges faced by the global economy in recent times, and …This paper, based on the introductory remarks made at the two-day conference on "The State of the Economy, the State of …

a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …

Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these …

This paper complements previous work on the economics of different energy resources by examining the growth potential … carbon economy is likely to prove much more challenging than some optimists have claimed …