Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept that has attracted worldwide attention and gained a new resonance in the global economy. According to Werther and Chandler (2006), the meaning of CSR can be discerned from the three words in the phrase: corporate, social, and re…
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In this dissertation, I write three essays in Development Economics. In essay 1, I provide robust evidence on the effects of BRAC's Targeting the Ultra-Poor Program in Bangladesh (TUP). In addition to BRAC's own classification, I exploit type-1 errors in assignment (leaving elig…
This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, and examines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDI inflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence of multinational corporations (…
Several studies have shown that information and communications technology (ICT) is important in economic and business development. The advent and rapid development of ICT have not helped in bridging the technological gap between developing countries and advanced countries. In fa…
Global climate change is projected to have disproportionate adverse impacts on water quality and availability in low-resource settings. Therefore, it is essential that developing countries assess their vulnerabilities and develop strategies to improve their resilience. This thes…
Most of the research that pertains to study abroad focuses heavily on students, but not professionals who work in the field of international education. This thesis argues that a different perspective is useful to understand the growing trend of students who are studying abroad i…
My dissertation consists of three papers on business cycles in developing countries. All the papers are different from each other and emphasize different aspects of understanding economic fluctuations in developing countries. The first paper is titled `Medium Term Business Cycle…
Each chapter of this dissertation studies a different question within the field of Applied Microeconomics. The first chapter examines the mid- and long-term effects of the 1998 Asian Crisis on the educational attainment of Indonesian children ages 6 to 18, at the time of the cri…
Some of the main energy issues in developing countries are high dependence on non-renewable energy sources, low energy efficiency levels and as a result of this high amount of CO2 emissions. Besides, a common problem of many countries including developing countries is economic i…
Why do child labor norms often fail to be transferred or enforced in developing countries even if the implementation of such norms already proved to have substantially reduced child labor practices in developed regions? In the field of international political economy, a number o…
Since the 1980s, major rural institutional reforms have been implemented in Northern Nigeria. These include the Better Life for Rural Women Program, the Directorate of Food, Road, and Rural Infrastructure and the North East Arid Zone Development Program (NEAZDP). The first two p…
This thesis ventures to understand and explain aspects of the complex system of land usage, housing and transportation in cities. It proposes theoretical models and uses empirical analysis to aid its goal of explaining some stylized facts and anecdotal evidence available in the …
This research has studied the maturity of PM in the construction industry of developing countries; in the course, the research has also identified two major gaps in the existing maturity models and, proposed a PM maturity model to address the gaps and adapt it to the developing …
This thesis provides the first empirical explanatory theory for community authorization for Genetically Modified Mosquito (GMM) trials. Although this theory was developed in the context of GMM trials, it can apply to other endeavors, research or not, where whole communities migh…
This dissertation comprises three chapters which cover two main topics. The first chapter provides a study on the quality of life of cities in Senegal, and the last two chapters analyze the effects of the adoption of value-added taxation on manufacturing firms in Ethiopia. Rapid…
Rapid urbanization and development are causing severe problems of raw water extraction and related environmental and social impacts in developing countries. This study demonstrated that an integrated approach to decision making could help solve these problems. A case study of ra…
The number of female political representatives is lower than the number of male representatives throughout the world. Several theories have been offered to account for the continuing deficiency in the number of women representatives in national legislatures, including approaches…
This dissertation examines public spending and taxation programs in developing countries. The first chapter examines the effect of federal transfers on local revenue collection in the Philippines. The second chapter examines the relationship between private investment, taxation,…
My dissertation explores the effect of ethnic conflict, or regulations meant to avoid ethnic strife, on firm employment and productivity in developing countries. The first chapter investigates the impact of the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire that began in 2000, using a census of all …