The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government expenditure in public services and infrastructure on different sectors of the population. Through three essays this dissertation pursues the objective by explicitly highlighting the...

Rural accessibility is the only metric used in the Sustainable Development Goals to track progress toward better transport services in low- and middle-income countries. This paper estimates the rural accessibility index, defined as the proportion of the rural population who live within 2...

Without self-sustaining commerce, developing countries cannot move towards the recognition of basic human rights and twenty-first century living standards. The purpose of this article is to explore the legal and economic theories of taxation and tariffs applied to the elements of civic...