Economics
Economics is the social science that studies how people interact with value; in particular, the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and sellers. Macroeconomics analyzes the economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it: employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land, currency inflation, economic growth, and public policies …
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ADB: Asian Development Bank · 28 October 2024 English
This paper looks at how pension systems across Asia and the Pacific can overcome common challenges of low contributory coverage, inadequate social pensions, and failure to include the informal sector.
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ADB ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 746 October 2024 PENSIONS IN AGING ASIA … and John PiggottASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK The ADB Economics Working Paper Series presents research in progress … Governors or the governments they represent. ADB Economics Working Paper Series Rafal Chomik, Philip O’Keefe … Professor Thanh Long Giang from the National Economics University of Hanoi and participants in an ADB …
IGS: Institute for Global Sustainability · 28 October 2024 English
Energy historian Roger Fouquet's analysis of historic energy transitions in household heating in England from 1300 to 2000 reveals interesting trends. The shift from wood to coal and later to …
RAND Corporation · 28 October 2024 English
This paper highlights the socioeconomic and racial/ethnic discrepancies in algebra availability and access, as well as teacher characteristics and classroom experiences in 8th and 9th grade math classrooms, using nationally …
Oxfam International · 28 October 2024 English
This briefing from Oxfam explores the immense climate impacts caused by the top 1% of the wealthiest individuals and proposes measures to address this "carbon inequality." It emphasizes that the …
has become a more accepted method in climate economics literature.16 CARBON INEQUALITY KILLS WHY … and marginalized people.137 • Reject neoliberal economics and put the state at the centre of delivering … Costs and Benefits’. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(4), 2037–105; C. Mora, B. Dousset, I.R. …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 25 October 2024 English
Job losses in fossil industries are often prominent in climate policy discus- sions. Why are job losses costly? Who is most affected? How can welfare costs be re- duced? We …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 October 2024 English
The landscape of the politics of Brexit remains a broad and highly contested terrain, ranging from those convinced it was a great and necessary triumph, to be defended at all …
scale has significant implications. For example, economics commentator <a href="https://www.theneweuropean … too, are facts of life, deriving from those of economics, geography, and the nature of international relations …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 24 October 2024 English
Curtailing cooperation with the global nuclear order may be provocative, but it is not necessarily productive.
Syria’s border regions, changes in demographics, economics, and securi� mean that an inter-Syrian peace process …
World Bank Group · 24 October 2024 English
are exposed to some of the highest levels of air pollution and its consequences, the majority of economics research on the topic is focused on high-income settings where there is greater data availability …
Bridget Hoffmann Sveta Milusheva Development Economics Development Impact Group October 2024 Public … pollution and its consequences, the majority of economics research on the topic is focused on high-income … of the Development Impact Group, Development Economics. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank … effects of air pollution. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 14, 403–425. Anderson, M. L. (2020). As the wind … crashes and pollution. Journal of environmental economics and management, 106, 102427. Buchard, V., Randles …
World Bank Group · 24 October 2024 English
This report synthesizes available evidence on childcare in Cambodia to provide a holistic analysis of the policy landscape and priorities for further investment. It presents new data to describe the …
also wishes to thank the World Bank Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) for its support with data …
RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 24 October 2024 English
For instance, the World Bank Doing Business Project9 ranked 190 countries worldwide in terms of the strength of legal rights and resolving insolvency framework.10 The World Bank measures have been …
Cross-Country Evidence’ (2014) 54 The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 315. 23 World Bank (n 10). 24 S Djankov … 129 Countries☆’ (2007) 84 Journal of Financial Economics 299. 25 Robert G King and Ross Levine, ‘Finance … Right.’ (1993) 1083 The Quarterly Journal of Economics 717. 26 Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India … of Its Relative Use’ (2005) 7 American Law and Economics Review 253. 29 Nketcha Nana (n 22). 30 The World … Creditors’ (2007) 24 European Journal of Law and Economics 201. 32 ‘UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency …