Beyond the impact that Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) have for creating knowledgebased economies, they may also contribute to social and ecological dimensions of development. This would require beneficial ST&I policies to be in place. While authors have studied single ST&I impacts,...

In the mainstream development debate during recent years, among others, there have been two influential camps opposing each other. The first one identifies the environmental context, the "natural" variable, as the ultimate cause that determines the socio-economic development trajectory of a...

The article seeks to demonstrate that an analysis of religiously-based development NGOs, while welcome, must start from a solid basis of actually understanding these NGOs. The rationale and purpose of these organisations are far more complex than just promoting their ' particular missions' by...

Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...

This article explores the question of whether concepts and methods used in non-equilibrium statistical physics, already successfully applied in biology, epidemeology and finances, can also be a useful tool for research into economic development. The aim of this article is to describe one such...

Using a global panel on research and development (R&D) expenditures, this paper documents that on average poor countries do far less R&D than rich as a share of GDP. This is arguably counter intuitive since the gains from doing the R&D required for technological catch up are thought to be very...