The Midwestern portion of the United States has long been a seemingly indeterminable entity, whose boundaries are complex and whose speech has fallen victim to the myth of linguistic homogeneity. On the other hand, the Southern states have been the focus of research on dialectal variation. One way in which each of these regions can be defined is by the lack of one of two mergers. In the Midwest...

This paper explores the role migration has played in development studies, and in debates on economic growth and poverty. It argues that, despite a recent surge of interest in international migration and remittances, research on human mobility particularly for labour within poor countries does not have the place it deserves, and that it used to have in the classical development literature. Revie...

I would like to begin by congratulating the authors (referred to below as EHJT) for their interesting paper in which they propose a new variable selection method (LARS) for building linear models and show how their new method relates to other methods that have been proposed recently. I found the paper to be very stimulating and found the additional insight that it provides about the Lasso techn...

This paper explores the evolving discourse on sustainability and its relationship to issues of marginality social justice, with a focus marginalized communities in India. It examines sustainability's impact global political economy, national development trajectories, socio-political structures, groups. The limitations mainstream are analyzed, including anthropocentric biases. Concepts like Eco-...