This paper examines the welfare consequences of social safety nets in developing economies relative to developed economies. Using panel surveys of households in Indonesia and the United States, we …nd that food consumption falls by approximately ten percent when individuals become unemployed in both countries. This …nding suggests that introducing a formal social insurance program would have sm...

In developed economies, agglomeration is skill-biased: larger cities are skill-abundant and exhibit higher skilled wage premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, India. To facilitate comparisons with developed-economy findings, we construct metropolitan areas for each these economies by aggregating finer geographic units on basis contiguous light nig...

International Journal of Developing and Emerging Economies (IJDEE) is an international peer-reviewed referred journal published by European Centre for Research Training Development, United Kingdom. The publishes original contributions at the forefront social, trade, legislative economic issues related to developing countries emerging economics. IJDEE in both printed […]

T he main objective of the present study is to find out a clear answer to the question raised in developing countries, that whether such developing economies could be able to achieve economic growth as well as protect their environment simultaneously or these economies still suffer from a severe conflict between environmental protection and economic growth. So, different categories o...