Among the most common objections to providing everyone with an unconditional basic income is the cost objection. It states that the cost of providing everyone with a decent income floor,…
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…Pacific’s cumulative gain in labor productivity during the expansionary phase is twice that of LAC. Moreover, the evidence also shows that the effects of the contraction in public investment surpass…
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…seen” (Stern, 2006). To deal with this issue we analyze the two big currents about public policy measures in general: market oriented and state intervention. We also present the current…
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…prisoner’s dilemma model, the paper illustrates how developed countries’ power to externalize their emissions to the global commons skews their cost-benefit calculation in favor of putting off mitigation efforts into…
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…important pro-poor shifts in development policies during the baseline period, it finds that eradication will take at least 100 years at $1.25-a-day, and 200 years at $5-a-day. While this could…
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…episodes that Mexico has experienced during the last four decades. Subsequently it identifies the effects that public spending cuts have had on investment and economic growth in Mexico. Next, it…
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…effects of rhetoric on policy debate, and the importance of “traction” on political agendas are then considered. Propositions are presented indicating, in particular: policy issues will only be addressed spasmodically;…
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…should be given at the end of the articles in the following style with hyperlinks wherever useful and possible. For a review of the Harvard system, see: http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf or http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/HarvardStyle.htm…
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Email: wereditor@worldeconomicsassociation.org Jayati Ghosh, India, Jawaharlal Nehru University: jayatijnu@gmail.com John Weeks, UK, University of London: johnweeks@jweeks.org Susan Feiner, USA, University of Southern Maine: sffein@usm.maine.edu Esteban Perez Caldentey, Chile, Economic Commission for…
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