This study departs from extant work on diversity and development in several respects. Using DHS data from a large number of developing countries, we adopt four human development outcomes: child mortality, fertility, education, and wealth. We exploit evidence at multiple levels—country,...

It is difficult to assess countries' relative success in addressing issues of public health because countries are subject to very different background conditions. To address this problem we offer a model-based approach for assessing health system performance. Specifically, an index of public...

Do neoliberal economic policies help or hinder human development? Many have argued that such policies promote economic stability and growth, which may have indirect positive effects on human welfare. Others claim that neoliberal policies retard human development. We argue that neoliberal...

To reveal the cooperation relations and structure characters of China's educational economics (EE) by social network analysis (SNA), 4,632 authors have been statistically analysed in this article, of which 4,884 articles were published by 12 correlative academic journals of EE from 1980 to 2009,...

The creation and development process of College Student Loan (CSL) in China is the one that is fulfilled gradually and interlacing with Chinese higher education system reform and fiscal financial system reform. To ensure limited CSL to flow to millions of poor college students from limited...

The creation and development process of College Student Loan (CSL) in China is the one that is fulfilled gradually and interlacing with Chinese higher education system reform and fiscal financial system reform. To ensure limited CSL to flow to millions of poor college students from limited...

It is a distinct trend in the development of education economics (EE) that accurate quantitative analyses are replacing vague literal description. In this paper, we studied 1,600 papers which were published on Education and Economy from 1985 to 2008, and analysed the 5,773 keywords of those...

Business plays a critical yet poorly understood role in trade policymaking. This paper develops an analytical framework that focuses on the distribution of business trade preferences, the forces that cause those preferences to change, and the ability of different groups to exert political...

This article proposes a ‘min-max’ strategy of definition applicable to all concepts intended for general usage within some language region. The min-max strategy relies on the conjoined use of minimal and ideal-type definitions. A minimal definition identifies the bare essentials of...