Progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has been insufficient, not least because of shocks such as the COVID 19 pandemic and recent wars. The cost of this lack of progress is borne by 'least developed countries' - low-income countries with low indicators of socio-economic...

This report examines the potential for universal basic income (UBI) to gain prominence in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the challenges of withdrawing temporary stimulus measures and emphasizes the importance of efficient government operations and addressing the post-pandemic...

We investigate the causes of an internal conflict by adding ambient climate factors to the existing bundle of most significant variables. It turns out that – controlling for possible associations – temperature could actually induce a conflict. We emphasise that temperature could not be a...