The Sustainable Economic Development Research Group (SED) research group aims to conduct cutting-edge research that contributes to our understanding of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To this end, members are concerned with bringing together government, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and local communities to address sustainability issues at local, national and international levels. Additionally, the group provides a forum for university academics to exchange ideas about sustainable development issues facing our world today and encourages interdisciplinary research.
Our current research foci are as follows:
- Poverty, inequality and economic development
- Policies and practices in the rural economies
- Banking and finance in the rural economies - penetration of new payment instruments
and demonetisation
- Sustainable banking and finance
- The impact of financial crisis and Covid-19 on the economy and banking system
- Labour markets, labour union and strike activity, formal and informal and worker
protection
- Climate change and energy
- The Economics of Conflict
Current projects
1) Systemic Crises and Conflict in the Eurozone: a Revisit
2) Does union activity help or hinder CSR efforts toward environmental sustainability?
How do unionized firms affect the value of CSR?
3) Union density and workforce composition: a tale of two human capital models
4) Quantifying the non-market value of women’s domestic work.
1) Bruno Karoubi, 2022. Do Surcharge influence our choice of payment instrument ?
Theory and Evidence, Bankers Market and investors n.169.
2) Yerrabati, S. 2023. When does self-employment equalise income? Evidence
from developing countries. Journal of Economic Studies. Vol. ahead-of-print
No. ahead-of-print. When does self-employment equalise income? Evidence
from developing countries | Emerald Insight
3) Yerrabati, S. 2022. Does vulnerable employment alleviate poverty in
developing countries? Economic Modelling. 116, 106043.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.106043
4) Yerrabati, S. 2022. Self-employment: a means to reduce poverty in developing
countries? Journal of Economic Studies. 50, 2, 129-146. Self-employment: a
means to reduce poverty in developing countries? | Emerald Insight
5) Yerrabati, S. 2022. Corruption and growth in developing countries: Does self-
employment matter? The Journal of Developing Areas, 56, 3, 131-146. Project
MUSE - Corruption and Growth in Developing Countries: Does Self-
Employment Matter? (jhu.edu)
