Consumer surplus is based on the economic theory ... Historical Context and Development The concept of consumer surplus originated in 1844 with French engineer Jules Dupuit, who introduced it in his ...

Colleges have never been very good at demonstrating how their education programs prepare their graduates for jobs, or how their research might create new jobs. That’s partly because the connection is ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity.

ATLANTA — People across the country are taking part in a movement to make corporations uncomfortable. Adriene Kershaw joined the economic blackout-- a grassroots movement by The People's Union USA-- ...

Since World War II, most countries around the world have come to use gross domestic product, or GDP, as the core metric for prosperity. The GDP measures market output: the monetary value of all the ...

Rapid strides in machine learning have transformed the efficiency of public and private sector organizations alike; however, those working on poverty reduction have struggled to harness these ...

This publication aims to provide National Tax Administrations with a methodology to identify and measure Tax Transaction Costs for taxpayers and tax institutions, assisting in the identification of ...