Development economicsThis chapter considers the literature on urbanization and migration to cities from rural areas in developing and middle-income countries. The chapter assesses recent patterns, discusses traditional models, addresses more recent models of migration, presents some of the recent findings ...
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between the social and the natural, with the ecological field defined as humanembeddednessin the environment. In these items, social sustainability includes all human activities (Atkinson et al., 2003). It is not just relevant to the focused intersection of economics, the environment, and the ...
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P.B. ANAND Reader, Environmental Economics and Public Policy, Centre for International Development, University of Bradford, UK SONIA BHALOTRA Reader, Economics, University of Bristol, UK NINA BLÖNDAL University of Copenhagen INDRANIL DUTTA Lecturer, Economics, University of Manchester, UK DAVID FIELD...
LAW AND ECONOMICS OF THE BANKING LIABILITY FROM ELECTRONIC FRAUDS: THE BENEFIT RISK, THE CREATED RISK AND THE PROFFESIONAL RISK This paper contains, firstly, an approach of the banking liability from electronic frauds committed against their clients, under both the fault liability and strict liability...
Economic development requires endogenous novelties, according to evolutionary economics. To find the endogenous source of novelties, we focus on the creativity of ordinary people when they forge their life path. We argue that such ‘life creativity’ is endogenous to the economic system because it is...
Improved economic growth and environmental protection are necessary to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This study examines the relationship between people’s education levels and sustainable lifestyles in protecting the enviro
In this chapter we discuss field experiments in the context of development economics. Given that field experiments are addressed in this chapter for the first time in the book, we start by defining them. Experimental economics was born fundamentally out of laboratory experiments, so it is natural...
When the field of development economics began to take shape in the post-war period, development economists encouraged governments of LDCs to adopt interventional policies to accelerate capital accumulation and to pursue an “inward-looking,” heavy-industry-oriented or import-substitution strategy to ...