The social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) is a technique for assessing social impact and potential impact that aims to evaluate the social and socio-economic aspects of products and their potential for both positive and negative impacts along their life cycle. The lack of a quantitative inventory data for social issues is a weakness of the S-LCA methodology to calculate social impacts. This stud...

I study a two-sector model of learning-by-doing with general and sector-speci…c human capital. There is a potential e¢ ciency gain from intersectoral turnover when the sectors have di¤erent complementary production costs or learning curves of di¤erent steepness. If workers are liquidity constrained then there is a bias towards increased intersectoral turnover, resulting in socially ine¢ cient c...

This article makes the case for greater collaboration and communication between scholars and practitioners of information communications technology (ICT) for development projects and for the use of multi-methodological, cross-disciplinary approaches to understand what will make for more successful endeavors in this important arena, the necessity of which is reflected in the widespread use of pu...

This paper presents a new vision of e-Learning and quality in e-Learning based on two main assumptions: e-Learning cannot be seen as a “one-size-fits all” solution as it has as many definitions as the fields and sectors where it is implemented, and to define quality in eLearning one must consider the influence of visions of stakeholders on quality perception. The paper analyses in-depth the e-L...