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)
