The choices of transport that households make are important in determining the type of fuel taxes. Many countries in the developing world have in the recent past witnessed an increasing vehicular…

This study assesses the willingness of people in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to pay for improvement in their water supply system. It also investigates what aspects of water supply, such as quality and…

This chapter by EfD China Research Associate Priscilla Cooke St.Clair, explores the impact of changes in environmental conditions on household labor allocation to the collection of environmental goods…

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims to create a single liberalised market for goods, services, and capital, with arrangements to ease the movement of persons, deepen integration, and…

The desire for a transformative change in the structure of the Ghanaian economy dates back to the immediate post-independence period. 1 Unfortunately, the pace of structural transformation has been…

Abstract Motivated by the persistent rise in bilateral trade imbalance in Nigeria, this paper empirically examines whether Nigeria’s four trading partners (China, India, the UK and the US) respond…

Abstract The unsustainable use of biomass in meeting households’ energy requirements affects the climate negatively through increasing rate deforestation and the release of carbon monoxides and…

There is a growing concern about the possibility that poverty and inequality might increase as a result of climate change. Nevertheless, in contrast to the widely analyzed potential impacts of climate…

Free trade has led to extreme specialization, e.g., most of the world's supply of APIs for medicine come from China, critical software and microchips come from the US, etc. Therefore, a lockdown in…

The effect of announcing future institutional change is investigated in three different contexts: a gains frame, a loss frame, and a loss frame with risk. The institutional change is the transition...