In this chapter, Feeny provides a critical reflection of the MDGs and discusses how they compare with the SDGs. He summarises what has been learnt from the global experience of the MDGs and examines the extent to which these lessons were applied to the evolution of the SDGs. Feeny provides a set...

Measures of happiness are increasingly being used to inform development policy. This is particularly true in Melanesia where linkages between income and life satisfaction can be weak due to the dominance of semi-subsistence lifestyles. This paper examines the happiness of households in two...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the principal determinants of women’s employment in the manufacturing sector of Bangladesh using a firm-level panel data from the World Bank’s “Enterprise Survey” for the years 2007, 2011 and 2013. The paper sheds light on the...