Call for applications: African programme on Rethinking Development
APORDE is a 12-day, fully-funded, high-level training in heterodox development economics that will be held in South Africa in May 2007 (13-25). Aporde aims at building capacity in developing countries, and selected participants will be
IFIs LA Monitor Newsletter - November, 2006
Debt sustainability analysis with a human development approach, describes six mechanisms by which the World Bank's development economics touting the most recent draft of its investment framework on clean energy and development,
Economic Apartheid Kills
But a new report from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University shows that wealth creation is remarkably - one might say criminally - unequal. Follow this hierarchy at the top of the wealth
The economics of health and safety
HSE makes use of economics in assessment, monitoring and evaluation of its policies, programmes and projects, and to strengthen the evidence base for the development of health and safety policy. Visit the economics website
Where's the World's Wealth?
The World Institute for Development Economics Research has just released a new study on "The World Distribution of Household Wealth." Unlike the measure of "income," the measure of "wealth" considers household assets and resources.
Dear Haabie
I am [planning] to pursue a Graduate degree in Environmental/Ecological Economics with the goal of returning to my field with a better understanding of true “Sustainable Development”. I thought I would ask … “what is a good path,
The economics of unit testing from Empirical Software Engineering
Ellims et al. report on the effectiveness of unit testing applied during the development of three industrial software projects. Unfortunately, the data used was not collected under experimental conditions, but, even so, the
Baby, you're a rich man
that studies show Americans consider themselves wealthy by comparing themselves to others, not in absolute terms, and made passing reference to a global wealth study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Environmental Economics: Dear Haabie
From the inbox:I am [planning] to pursue a Graduate degree in Environmental/Ecological Economics with the goal of returning to my field with a better understanding of true “Sustainable Development”. I thought I would ask …
The Development Economics Student's Burden
But yesterday morning, in a small group review session for my Development Economics midterm, I had the exhilarating experience of the proverbial light turning on, and half a semester's worth of bumping my knees and elbows moving through
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