Public Economics Workshop, 2018
Delhi School of Economics jointly organized the Public Economics Workshop on March 20-21st, 2018 with The Center for research on the economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE), ISI…
Delhi School of Economics jointly organized the Public Economics Workshop on March 20-21st, 2018 with The Center for research on the economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE), ISI…
Presented By: by Kanishka Kacker (Indian Statistical Institute – Delhi) Abstract: There has been much discussion recently in the U.S. press about the fate of coal mining and its employees…
Presented by: Rashmi Barua (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Abstract: We study the effect of exposure to arsenic in groundwater, the main source of arsenic contamination, on a range of education outcomes…
Environmental Economists from the Environment for Development-Makerere University (EfD-Mak) Centre on 20th February 2020 conducted a policy tour of Mukono District Local Government headquarters where
Environmentalist and economists from Environment for Development Initiative (EfD– Mak Centre) set out from the Ivory Tower to Wakiso district headquarters to dialogue with the councilors on the
Environment for Development Initiative (EfD–Mak) Centre on 7th November 2019 hosted its first policy dialogue on Governance and Natural Resources at the Senate Conference Room Makerere University. The
As work opportunities in agriculture shrink, the future lies in improving women’s access to jobs in manufacturing and services. In order to enhance women’s economic opportunities, we must understand
This paper investigates the relation between risk taking and market power in the US banking sector by introducing the effect of geographical spillovers caused by the transmission of risk taking among banks. For this purpose, we use spatial econometrics. Our results support a negative relation between risk taking and market power. The transmission of risk taking causes significant geographical spillovers, which increases the magnitude of the relation under analysis here.
The informal sector in cities of the developing world is often analyzed from the prism of urban poverty, social exclusion and limited social integration, and lack of power. While such issues have commanded considerable attention in development literature, contribution of the sector to urban governance and barriers to its social participation in the urban governance process appears to have received relatively little epistemological treatment.
Aba is a politically volatile, economically vibrant but environmentally poor city that is a microcosm of social conditions in the Nigerian urban informal economy. Hence, this study interrogates the social sustainability of waste picking in the city, using a hybrid of political economy and sustainable livelihoods frameworks to explicate social conditions of labour in the waste economy in relation to state/institutional policies. A mixed-methods approach was utilised, and findings indicate that a cocktail of conditions affect waste picking.