Childhood vaccination is a powerful tool for reducing morbidity and premature deaths, and vaccines are usually provided for free. Despite this, ...

Rural Angola has gone through decades of hardships with war and economic marginalisation – culminating with the current economic crisis. ...

Despite the optimistic forecasts in 1991, both the political and economic liberalisation processes in Zambia are today characterised by their ...

The hypothesis that socio-economic inequality has a detrimental effect on economic growth by breeding political instability has been subject ...

Economic experiments have become extremely influential in economics, by enriching both our understanding of individual motivation and rationality.

There is sufficient evidence to say that female empowerment affects economic and social outcomes, in particular for girls. There is, however, ...

This study examines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth. The employed data set includes a representative ...

This study examines the empirical relationship between financial development and economic growth. The employed data set includes a representative ...

This paper develops a model for Namibian hake, which incorporates the biology, gear selectivity and the economics of the hake fisheries in a ...

Rajeev Goel will present a large cross-country dataset on the nexus between economic uncertainty and corruption. prevalence of corruption

In Tanzania, there is a striking increase in the number of girls who get pregnant from the ages 16 to 20. Among 16 year olds, 11 percent get pregnant, whereas 61 percent of the 20 year old girls start childbearing. Why do so many girls have babies when they are this young? How does this affect their economic situation and possibilities of entering the job market?

We attempt to explain the present ethnic-based conflict in the Terai of Nepal by deeper social and economic structures. Based on previous research ...

The report analyses Ethiopia's economic performance and expected future development. The economic growth rate is likely to remain high despite ...

This desk study was commissioned by NORAD to review recent literature on socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan ...

This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. ...

A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in volume ...

A thwarted industrial policy, poor economic governance and external tensions have brought Iran's industrial class to the brink of extinction. They are trapped in between the revolutionary rhetoric of the Islamic republic and unfulfilled attempts of economic pragmatism.

with Alexander W. Cappelen, Professor in economics and co-director of The Choice Lab at the Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Torsvik researches labour economics, public economics and development economics.

Economist whose research interests focus on normative economics, poverty, public economics, and corruption.