the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of … household welfare and that higher levels of education have relatively larger and increasing benefits. Improvements are observed …

coming back to the environment/development "Gordian Knot", which underpins all global environmental affairs since the … Stockholm Conference in 1972. We argue that the equity-efficiency dilemma has to be set in a broader sustainable development … perspective whereby climate policies are integrated with development priorities of the poorest countries so as to create a …

predicated via three sub-chains (i) from marketization to growth, (ii) from growth to overall material development welfare and … (iii) from material development to social welfare and democracy. We examine each of these sub-links in detail with a view …

-rural linkages toward sustainable development. Strong linkages enhance people's welfare and growth because they facilitate the flow …" Joachim von Braun, Center for Development Research (ZEF) University of Bonn, Germany This paper explores the relations between … development. Until now, the widespread view in the economic policy and research, categorizing "rural" as more "remote farming …

make of labor one of the main mechanics for development: equality, productivity, and welfare. … basic needs and provide people with a decent way of life and fostering development at the same time. This paper proposes to … measure a labor market development index, using variables that can usually be found in labor surveys and can be applied for …

This paper is an attempt to understand how Amartya Sen's thinking on development and freedom has evolved from his … critique of welfare economics and his concern with underdevelopment and poverty. It is argued that Sen has done a great deal to … rescue welfare economics from the consequences of methodological individualism by seeking an objective basis for comparisons …

of covariate and self-reported idiosyncratic shocks on household welfare. The study examines the effectiveness of the …

, such as the UNDP, recognise the importance of gender issues in development, UNDP’s Gender Development Index is found to be … a poor indicator of female and family welfare. The question is then investigated of how women and children are faring …, disadvantaged wives and children are at increasing risk of falling through social safety nets as the welfare state continues to be …