Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...

Dalits are the perpetual victims of marginalisation and socio-economic exclusion. The word Dalit is derived from the root ‘Dal’, incidentally common to both Sanskrit and Hebrew. In both languages it has the same meaning i.e. weak, crushed, split open and trampled upon. The demand for SC...

AIDS control in Tanzania is nearly entirely donor-funded. The fact that an increasing share of the country’s population directly depends on foreign aid for survival raises dependency concerns with unprecedented acuteness. Based on fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2009, this article...

The United Nations adopted the resolution to declare Right to Development as an inalienable human right on 4 December 1986. The idea was reinforced in 1993 through the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. The Right to Development has always been a controversial issue as several developed...

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

This paper argues that the Irish development model of recent years is best described as a multiple interface-periphery one: the strategy was to use Ireland's national sovereignty to exploit the economic possibilities (FDI, access to protected markets, differences in corporate tax regimes,...

When development economics emerged as an independent field in the post-1945 years, the answer to the question what the makings of development are was rather simple: Development equals GNP growth. On following current discussions in politics and business but also in much of academia, one suspects...

In this paper, the foundational rules governing human, economic and financial development in Islam, as understood from the Quran and from the life and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), are summarized. These rules pave the path to development as the basis of institutional structure,...

Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...