This paper investigates the relationship between pollution and life satisfaction in countries around the globe over recent decades. Our empirical model allows both per capita income and pollution to enter as arguments of a life satisfaction 'production function'. The results reveal that...

There is a dearth of research on how foreign aid and migrant remittances influence the level of happiness in recipient countries. This paper fills this void by presenting an empirical model where aid and remittances enter the happiness production function of a recipient country. We find that...

Eradication of poverty is the most pervasive goal of donors' foreign aid programmes. As a result, there has been much research on the degree of correlation between aid and poverty reduction. However, this work to date has shed little light on the direction of causation between the two variables....

A strong inverse relationship between per capita assistance and population of aid-receiving countries is found in an examination of Canadian bilateral foreign aid to 33 countries over the period 1982-92. However, the middle-income bias present in aid allocation of some other countries is not...

Globalisation in Historical Perspective. Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., Nigel Harris, author Global Shaping and its Alternatives. Yildiz Atasoy and William K. Carroll, eds., D. J. Shaw, author Tapping the Market: The Challenge of Institutional Reform in the...