Structural economic vulnerability is a major obstacle for the development of LDCs. The paper discusses the conceptual, methodological and empirical issues related to the economic vulnerability index ...

In a developing economy like Nigeria, where inflationary trends and currency fluctuations have become recurring features of the financial landscape, understanding the true nature of growth in the real ...

This paper has a 2-fold objective: (1) To introduce a measure that would be of general applicability in measuring diversity in different institutions. (2) To identify the determinants of diversity in ...

Standards make everyday life run smoothly. You rarely notice them: the credit card that works in any corner of the world, the Wi-Fi signal that connects a remote village to the cloud, or the vaccine ...

Thank you very much for your warm welcome, Governor Nor Shamsiah. I would like to take this opportunity to express again our heartfelt congratulations on your recent appointment, and appreciation for ...

Successful economic development has been an elusive target in many countries of the Global South. Considerable intellectual effort has been spent on this issue over many decades with mixed results. A ...

The Council of Economic and Development Affairs held a meeting via video conference today, during which it reviewed a number of key topics and reports ...

Providing incentives to companies to create jobs has become a false panacea in the economic development world, and proponents often fail to acknowledge the strategy’s downsides. U.S. President Donald ...