development-economics

Tonopah has boomed and mostly busted since it's heyday more than a century ago. Trump has raised expectations for renewed prosperity and one local businessman is sprucing up his motel in anticipation of better times.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07859-9 Compilation and application of a comprehensive ocean economy input-output table: the case of China

Thomas Piketty's ambitious plans for shrinking the workweek and capping the GDP of wealthy countries would hurt not just the billionaires but every American.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07928-z The dynamics of international food trade: patterns of inequality and inequity from 1965 to 2020

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world, from UN agencies to grassroots movements. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a world richer than ever before, roughly one 10th of the world’s population still lives in extreme destitution . Millions of people cannot afford enough food, proper housing or basic healthcare, while…

Protectionist measures will deal blow to country’s budget as it defends itself against Russia, says Metinvest chief New EU limits on steel imports could destroy Ukraine’s industry and deal a big blow to the country’s budget as it defends itself against Russia, according to the head of its biggest steelmaker. Yuriy Ryzhenkov, the chief executive of Metinvest, said the new EU quota system due on 1 …

Western Advantage Is Mostly Not Wealth — It's Coordination Infrastructure The most useful reframe of development economics I've encountered: Many Western institutions are machines that solve five problems: Uncertainty → Insurance Trust → Reputation systems Information asymmetry → Markets Enforcement → Courts Coordination → Corporations AI does not replace these. AI may become the operating system…

An analysis of Kenya's proposal to monetize government data — and the larger opportunity the debate has so far overlooked. Introduction: The Most Valuable Thing Kenya Owns Isn't Gold, Oil, or Land Imagine waking up tomorrow and hearing the government announce: "We have discovered a new natural resource. It exists in every county. It grows every day. It never runs out. It powers AI, business, rese…

Knowledge of determinants of MSME density is important to inform evidence-based economic policy, especially in developing economies where MSMEs are the main drivers of employment, poverty reduction, and inclusive growth. This study fills an important knowledge gap in the body of empirical literature by offering cross-country quantitative data on how the level of national income determines the for…

Entrepreneurship is widely recognized as a key driver of innovation, employment generation, and economic development; however, entrepreneurial intention is shaped by a complex interplay of psychological, cultural, experiential, and contextual factors. This study investigates the determinants of entrepreneurial intention among individuals from different national contexts, with a specific focus on …

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, widely known as J-PAL, is inviting applications for the Senior Training Associate position at J-PAL Global. This opportunity is based at the J-PAL Global office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. This is a strong opportunity for candidates with a background in economics, […] The post J-PAL Global Seni…

In September 2025, Adam Tooze sent a shock wave through Development studies circles (in the West) with an essay entitled “The End of Development”. He declared the evident truth that “the West’s aid model was always a mirage” and that “the UN Sustainable Development Goals now look less like a new dawn than the final […]

Alok Pratap Singh, BBA LLB, Central University of South Bihar Introduction: The United Nations (UN), established in 1945 in the aftermath of World War II. United Nation serves as a principle international organization tasked with maintaining global peace, security, and cooperation among states. For the implementation of the global peace and security the United Nation uses one of the most importan…

Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian in this PIIE research show how China is limiting industrialisation in developing economies: Concern over China’s trade surplus is again resurging in the United States and Europe, but less attention has been paid to what China’s surplus means for low- and middle-income countries. Despite becoming a richer and higher-tech economy, China continues […]

For ambitious economics graduates seeking to launch a career in economic research, monetary policy, forecasting, and data-driven economic analysis, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) have opened applications for the highly competitive Economist Internship Programme 2027. This prestigious trainee programme offers successful candidates the opportunity t…

_Zenodo_. 2026This paper develops the distinction between productive capital and claim capital as a balance-sheet approach to capital composition in monetary production economies. Productive capital is defined as capital that expands reproducible productive capacity. Claim capital is defined as capitalized claims on future output that do not necessarily expand the economy’s ability to produce tha…

E-food delivery is a trillion-dollar market . And most of that trillion is not going to farmers, store owners, or the people who actually move food around. It's going to the infrastructure layer sitting between them — the platform tax, the per-order cut, the SaaS subscription that charges you to exist inside someone else's garden. The walled garden isn't accidental. It's the product. What if food…

_Https://Www.Counterpunch.Org/Author/Ali-Khan/_. 2026This paper introduces the concept of the Minimal Paradise, a universal life infrastructure designed to guarantee that every household is free from destitution while preserving and expanding market-based innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific progress. The paper argues that many political, economic, and moral theories were developed under …

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 29 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07760-5 When does debt become a burden? Evidence from Asian developing countries