The Pakistan Institute of Development Economics was established at Karachi in 1957 and in 1964 accorded the status of an autonomous research organization by the Government of Pakistan. It is devoted ...

This paper explores issues and hypotheses concerned with women's work in developing economies. The relationships among agricultural labor, marketing, and trading activity rates in traditional and ...

So far in this series we have looked at the different issues women and men face when they participate in economic development projects. But the experience of gender and gender discrimination is not ...

Rethinking Universal Basic Income: Economic Productivity, Quality of Life and the Sustainable Development Goals About the author Mariano Torras ...

Support for a universal basic income (defined here) is growing. In Europe, for example, the City of Utrecht is about to introduce an experiment that aims “to challenge the notion that people who ...

In particular, the framework for evaluating policies relied on the basic theorems of “welfare economics,” the branch of the discipline that asks whether economic outcomes are desirable or not. The ...

Tyree spoke Tuesday at Future Forward, a new event created by the Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce to discuss issues in economic development, tourism, education and health care.

Measuring poverty with a single income or expenditure measure is an imperfect way to understand the deprivations of the poor since, for example, markets for basic needs and public goods may not ...

Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce poverty and inequality in South Africa.

Most Black adults do not have an emergency fund While most Black adults say their household finances meet basic needs with some left over for extras, just 36% say they have an emergency or rainy day ...