Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore different prisms through which sustainable development (SD) is considered and to situate the discourse in African contexts by highlighting the contestations in which the conventional knowledge of SD is embedded as well as an agenda for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze determinants of institutional quality based on six separate indicators of governance: voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the status of a class of non‐permanent labour in the globalised era in India. Design/methodology/approach – To understand this the paper uses both secondary level information and primary data collected through a survey. Secondary level...

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the sheepskin effects in the returns to education in the Sri Lankan labor market by ethnicity. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the latest Sri Lankan Consumer Finance and Socio-economic Survey. The study employs...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the viability for Bolivia of attaining the United Nations millennium development goal established in year 2000, of halving extreme poverty by 2015. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based in numerical simulation with a model of the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to establish an original database from fieldwork on microfinance institutions in Cameroon. Design/methodology/approach – The main method used for the research involved statistical analysis of an original survey data. The latter fieldwork analysis has...

Purpose – Research in gender and development (GAD) remains largely preoccupied with women's issues and ignores the gendered nature of masculine experience. While exposing this inconsistency in gender research, the present paper highlights the gendered nature of men, and sets an agenda for...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to investigate whether, and, if so, to what extent, the valuation that nations place on individual personality traits change with economic growth and development. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares the averages of the cross-country...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the status of a class of non-permanent labour in the globalised era in India. Design/methodology/approach – To understand this the paper uses both secondary level information and primary data collected through a survey. Secondary level...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to empirically analyze whether the impact of Islam on relative gender performance varies by regions of the non-Arabic world's economy. In addition, if in some regions Islam is found to have a negative impact on relative gender performance, an...