The radio and television universities of China, better known there as dianda, are now well established. The study considers the current expansion of higher education, both within the regular (or conventional) sector and the non-conventional sector. In particular the prospects for expanding...

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

The very low interest rates and inflation rates of recent years has generated renewed interest in alternative policies that would not leave central banks trapped by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Amongst this debate, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the possibility...