This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment … conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at … international forest-sustainability standards. This should require among other things, the development and implementation of …

institutions affect consumer welfare in terms of commodity prices. This paper investigates the effects of political establishments …, improving the quality of democratic institutions will ameliorate consumer welfare through lower inflation rates. Such government …

, corruption-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness, human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness …

economic freedom channels, liberalization policies have been fruitful for semi-formal financial development at the cost of …

achieving eight out of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be overemphasized as far as the welfare of individuals … is concerned. This study estimates the effects of financial inclusion on welfare using cross-section data from 33 sub … countries have low financial inclusion index. It is also revealed that financial inclusion has positive effect on welfare. With …

poor households, are exempted. We provide an optimal tax framework to reflect on the welfare effects of such a tariff … consistent individual welfare measure that depends on both types of goods, is used. To determine optimal tax rates, individual … welfare levels are aggregated by social welfare functions with different degrees of inequality aversion. We apply this …

of context as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household welfare, with a focus on farm households relative …