On Wednesday October 23, EPRU hosted the EfD Policy day at Commodore Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa. The policy day brought together policy makers from various governmental levels, practioners, NGOs…

As a follow up to her recently published PhD thesis Claudine Uwera gives an interview to the French Science magazine “ SciDev.Net” and debates against the Deputy Director of the Energy and Water…

Thomas Sterner, Senior Research Fellow of EfD and Professor of Economics at Gothenburg University, visited Arizona State University in Phenix, Friday, Oct. 11 to give a public lecture on “Carbon Tax…

Press release from Gothenburg University, School of Business, Economics and Law. 2013-10-11 The Poor and Their Neighbors: Essays on Behavioral and Experimental Economics Poor people don't resent their…

The School of Business, Economics and Law at the Department of Economics at the University of Gothenburg will offer PhD courses in Climate, Natural resources, Policy Instruments and Development Micro…

Huang Zhumei presented a paper entitled "Faced with serious inequality in rural China, can Forest Tenure Reform Reduce The Inequality?" on Sep 13, 2013 at the EfD Seminar Seriies organized by…

The President of the United Republic of Tanzania has appointed Prof. Adolf Mkenda, a fellow of the EfD, to serve as Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance in charge of policy. Prof…

Press release from Gothenburg University, School of Business, Economics and Law. 2013-09-06 Unsafe water in Rwanda: An Empirical Analysis Despite efforts made by the Rwandan government the…

In conjunction with Europe's largest national economy conference, EEA ESEM, the Environmental Economics Unit at the University of Gothenburg held a special session in memory of Elinor Ostrom on…

On Monday the 26th of August, the Department of Economics of University of Gothenburg had a session at the EEA ESEM 2013 Conference to discuss the Structural Change and Natural Resources in Developing…