development-economics

The Ph.D. in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome—offered through the Department of Economics and Law—is one of Europe’s most rigorous and research‑intensive doctoral programs. Designed for highly motivated students with a strong passion for advanced economic theory, quantitative methods, and empirical research, this four‑year program provides a transformative academic journey that prepares g…

Out-of-pocket health care spending is an inefficient and inequitable financing mechanism, as it reduces household well-being and can push families into poverty. This study estimates the impoverishment associated with out-of-pocket health care expenditures in Peru between 2010 and 2021 and identifies the factors associated with such impoverishment. Using microdata from the National Household Surve…

The dollar‑centric financial order entrenches asymmetry, externalises ecological costs, and records defensive load as growth. This paper proposes a counter‑model: a Global Commonwealth built on four structural invariants — Visibility, Symmetry, Contestability, and Repair — extended to the planetary scale. At its core is a Neutral Clearing Union with a Bancor unit of account, whose exchange rates …

Retail innovation, where people can shop alone after staff have gone, is helping vital community hubs survive Once upon a time, every German village had its own Tante Emma laden (Aunt Emma shop), a family-run hub of community life where local people bought their groceries at affordable prices and shot the breeze with their neighbours. But in recent years the loose network of small businesses thro…

_Zenodo_. 2026This paper proposes a balance-sheet theory of growth slowdown based on the distinction between productive capital and claim capital. Productive capital is defined as capital that expands an economy's capacity to generate future output. Claim capital is defined as a legal, financial, institutional, or accounting claim on future output that does not itself expand productive capacity. …

The Problem We Were Actually Solving At first glance, our platform was simply a successful e-commerce solution. But the truth was more complex. We had designed it to bypass local payment gateways, because they were either unreliable or outright forbidden in many countries, including Ghana. Instead, we routed payments through international gateways, which provided us with the scale and speed we ne…

Abstract This paper discusses how the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) affect logistics infrastructure and supply chain performance in China and some of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and specifically how the quality of governance moderate these effects. The analysis utilizes a balanced panel dataset between 1996 and 2023 that employs a fixed effect panel regression model, which comp…

This study aims to analyze the effect of the Coretax System and tax awareness on MSME taxpayer compliance in Pekanbaru, with tax sanctions as a moderating variable. This research uses a quantitative approach with a survey method. The sample consists of 200 MSME respondents registered at KPP Pratama Pekanbaru Senapelan who have implemented the Coretax System. Data analysis was conducted using mult…

Heterodox economics differs from orthodox or mainstream economics. It draws on a multiplicity of ideas, disciplines, methods and voices to present a more radical alternative to the dominant paradigm of neoclassical economics, which is viewed as overly narrow and blind-sided to how economies actually work. Andrew Trigg traces the heterodox tradition from its origins in the anti-capitalism ideas of…

Abstract Technology, finance, and energy are the key drivers to sustained growth and enhanced living standards in economies. This research adopts a framework that is built around the innovation-driven growth, finance-led growth, and energy-leg growth hypotheses to capture the various financial and technological mechanisms, and energy resources that drives economic growth. Therefore, the analysis …

Abstract This study examines the factors influencing gold prices within a comprehensive framework encompassing macroeconomic, financial, real, and geopolitical factors. By utilizing the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model and the Unrestricted Error Correction Model (UECM), the analysis captures both short-term dynamics and long-term equilibrium relationships. Robustness of the findings is…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 21 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07701-2 Integrating Big Data and economic indicators: enhancing tourism growth through destination competitiveness theory

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 21 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07331-8 A scoping review of economic integration interventions and programs for refugees

The Work4Progress Ghana 2026 Call for Collaborative Networks is a major international development initiative designed to stimulate job creation, entrepreneurship, and inclusive economic transformation in Ghana’s Afram Plains region. Implemented by the la Caixa Foundation in partnership with GBHub Africa, this programme seeks to bring together multi-organization networks to co-create sustainable e…