COVID-19 recovery funds dwarf clean energy investment needs.
Environmental implications of increased US oil production and liberal growth agenda in post -Paris Agreement era.
Contextualising on the internationally low oil prices era and historically high oil production in USA and refusal to honour the commitments under Paris Agreement (COP: 21), this study investigates the role of education, oil prices and natural resources on energy demand and CO2 emissions in the USA for the period of 1976-2016. In so doing, we employ...
Le cadeau empoisonné de Versailles ou la Chine à la manivelle de l'orgue de barbarie
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Economic Development and CO2 emissons : A comparison of High- and Middle-income economies
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between economic development and pollution in the middle- and high-income countries for the period between 1960 and 2014. The study is conducted by first testing the environmental Kuznets curve, an economic theory that income has an inverted U-shape relationship with environmental degrada...
Cliometrics and the Evolution of Human Capital
Human capital has been seen to be a key factor for current and future economic growth. In a broader sense, it appears that we are moving towards aknowledge economy driven by human capital, technological progress and digitalization. However, although this evolution may be a new trend, similar developments have occurred in history before. In line wit...
The role of Fab Labs and Living Labs for economic development of regional Australia
In Australia, demographer Bernard Salt (2016) coined the term “e-change” to describe a new social movement of people moving from metropolitan to regional cities seeking better lifestyles, more happiness closer to nature, and decreased living costs. This suggests that the new urban crisis in metropolitan areas may in turn cause a revival of regional...
Examining the role of Judicial Institutions in Economic Development
Courts are considered important in the functioning of markets, and yet, there is limited causal evidence showing this. In my dissertation, I explore the causal role of judicial institutions in facilitating economic development outcomes. In the first chapter of my dissertation, I estimate the causal effects of courts’ effectiveness in backlog resolu...
Did family size affect differences in body height in non-urbanized societies? Evidence from the Lemko community in Polan...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of economic changes in the Polish territories under Austrian partition at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries on the trend in adult body height, and to examine the effect of number of children in a family, as a socioeconomic factor, on the differences in heights of males and fe...
Privatisation of Public Enterprises in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects on Economic Development
Published in Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
Privatisation plays key roles in restructuring economic and social attributes of developing countries. The performance of any economy in terms of growth rate and per capita income have always been based on and associated with active involvement and participation of the private sector. It is apt to note that public enterprises in Nigeria have failed...
Dams, Development and the Future of Sino-Indian Hydro- Politics
China and India's miraculous economic growth has undoubtedly improved the livelihoods of millions of people, but it has also increased demand for already scarce water resources in the region. The hydro-political relationship between the two countries is particularly interesting due to China’s hold of the Tibetan Plateau which houses the heads of mo...
