This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house to waive processing charges the group of 47 so-called least developed countries (LDC). As an example, Springer Nature selected. The analysis based on Web Science, OpenAPC and Jisc Collections’ Compact journal list. result, estimates average yearly publication output 520 publications (or 0.26% worldwide in...

The exploration of relationship between macroeconomic fundamentals and exchange rate is needed in the perspective economic structure economies. focus current study to inquire dynamics behavior response for advanced least developed countries. Pooled Mean Group regression based on panel ARDL Panel Granger Causality Test are employed annual data sets time period 1995-2015. results evidence a stron...

Recent global initiatives on debt relief and development assistance call for increasing aid for trade to the poorest countries. We apply a multi-country computable general equilibrium model, to analyze if aid for trade offers the possibility that, instead of the developing and least developed countries’ being worse off—as so many were as the result of the last round of trade negotiations—they w...

Today, agriculture remains the most distorted sector of the world economy. Therefore, agricultural liberalization in the Doha negotiations is rightly the top priority. But the public-policy discourse on the subject remains fogged by a number of fallacies. These fallacies probably originated with the leadership of the World Bank but have now been embraced by the IMF, OECD, Oxfam and the leading ...

When will least developed countries be most vulnerable to climate change, given the influence of projected socio-economic development? The question is important, not least because current levels of international assistance to support adaptation lag more than an order of magnitude below what analysts estimate to be needed, and scaling up support could take many years. In this paper, we examine t...

Rural growth is seen as an engine to drive the economy of developing countries and the use of Agriculture Market Information Services (AMIS) is believed to enable this growth. This paper is based on a literature study and investigates the spread and use of AMIS in the least developed countries (n=49) in terms of users, management, funding, infrastructure, and data. We investigate success as wel...

Future impacts of climate change on marine fisheries have the potential to negatively influence a wide range of socio-economic factors, including food security, livelihoods and public health, and even to reshape development trajectories and spark transboundary conflict. Yet there is considerable variability in the vulnerability of countries around the world to these effects. We calculate a vuln...

While having the lowest number of main telephone lines for every 100 inhabitants (teledensity) over the last decade, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), have the highest average pre-tax operator profitability in the world. Many LDCs have already opened their terminal equipment markets to competition and some have also done this with data and value-added services. LDCs are greatly behind other...