1096 papers
The paper argues that malaria elimination in Africa must be reframed from a purely public health issue into a developmental imperative to re-engage economic and political stakeholders, as the disease's profound impact on GDP, human capital, and poverty cycles demands urgent, long-term investment to overcome current stagnation and climate-related threats.
Using harmonised longitudinal data from 1994 to 2023 and three distinct methodological approaches, this paper reveals that while the overall exposure to poverty in Spain has declined due to improved individual characteristics, the underlying structural risk and severity of chronic poverty have significantly increased since the mid-1990s.
This paper demonstrates that while cocoa markets in Côte d'Ivoire have transitioned from net shock transmitters to net receivers of macro-financial volatility since 2008, severe local climate anomalies can temporarily override this financialization regime to restore cocoa's role as a systemic driver of global commodity price instability.
Using data from 45,683 households across 32 Sub-Saharan African countries, this study finds that while financial inclusion significantly reduces household food insecurity, women and rural populations remain disproportionately vulnerable due to structural barriers like gender discrimination and climatic shocks, necessitating targeted policies that combine expanded financial access with education, healthcare, and systemic reforms to build resilience.
This paper argues that during the Second United Nations Development Decade (1971–1980), concepts of structural heterogeneity and social-economic integration developed by Latin American structuralists were implicitly and mediatedly incorporated into UN policy frameworks, thereby challenging the traditional North-to-South flow of economic ideas by demonstrating a significant, albeit often unattributed, South-to-North circulation of knowledge.
Using nationally representative data from the 2023 Chinese Social Survey, this study reveals that platform workers are typically younger, educated, and higher-income individuals whose participation leads to a gender-asymmetric shift in household dynamics, specifically enabling women to outsource domestic labor and increasing spousal employment while reducing education spending.
Using panel data from Ethiopia, this study demonstrates that climate shocks significantly increase household food insecurity, though the availability of financial savings serves as a critical buffer that mitigates these adverse effects.
This paper analyzes Iran's 1982–2024 economic landscape to demonstrate that while monetary expansion significantly influences household food expenditure, inequality, and poverty through distinct channels like nominal income growth and exchange-rate depreciation rather than a single mechanical liquidity effect, the resulting trends show that welfare improvements have occurred alongside a complex decoupling of food expenditure shares from broader inequality metrics.
This study utilizes ARDL and NARDL models on Bangladesh's egg market data from 2000 to 2024 to demonstrate that asymmetric price transmission, where rising costs pass through faster than falling ones, undermines food security and equitable welfare, thereby necessitating targeted policy interventions to advance sustainable development goals.
Using propensity score matching on survey data from 400 Muslim women in Dhaka, this study finds that receiving Islamic inheritance significantly improves financial well-being, though legal entitlements often remain unrealized due to family pressure and administrative barriers, necessitating stronger policy enforcement.