The study aimed to assess hog plum production profitability compared to other crops at the Jhalokathi District in Bangladesh. A total of 150 farmers were selected using face-to-face interviews in the convenience sampling technique, and data were collected by face-to-face interviews using a...

Africa's inability to achieve the SDGs is expected to have far-reaching consequences on the rest of the world since some goals carry transboundary features such as climate change, resource management, and globalisation. Thus, this study examined the effect of contemporary challenges such as...

This inaugural World Development Symposium on Development and Poverty Alleviation brings together contributions from a range of disciplines, scholars, practitioners, and countries to mark the recognition of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer (BDK) through the 2019 Sveriges...

Online platforms often face challenges being both fair (i.e., non-discriminatory) and efficient (i.e., maximizing revenue). Using computer vision algorithms and observational data from a microlending marketplace, we find that choices made by borrowers creating online profiles impact both of...

At 11:00 pm on January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom consummated what has come to be known as “Brexit,” by formally leaving the European Union, of which it had been an active member for more than a half a century. Among several important matters, this project also raised the question of the...

We studied the effects of droughts on crime in a semi-arid region of Northeastern Brazil. We make three contributions. First, we estimate the effects of annual and winter and summer drought shocks on crime wave. Second, we measure more precisely the spatial influence by estimating the direct,...

This paper studies whether tax policies in developed nations affect developing economies through cross-border investments by multinational firms. We study firm investment responses to a major U.K. tax reform that drastically reduced the income tax burden for U.K.-based firms. Our identification...

An undergraduate course in development economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into development economics courses based on standard textbooks is...

[Individuals with heavy paid and unpaid work burdens may experience time deprivations that restrict their well-being and put them at risk of becoming or remaining income poor. Because unpaid work outside of the market is not captured in most large survey-based datasets, time poverty is rarely...

Microenterprises represent 88.4% of Latin American enterprises, and many countries in the region have developed microenterprise promotion policies in recent years; however, rigorous evaluation remains a pending issue. To shed light on the research done on this topic over 20 years and propose a...