... the forefront of initiatives to develop better policies for better lives and to find fact-based answers to social, economic, and environmental problems becomes unavoidable. Design/methodology/approach The study therefore assesses the impact of labor productivity and investment decisions on human development...

...Dante A. Urbina; Gabriel Rodríguez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of corruption on economic growth, human development and natural resources in Latin American and Nordic countries. Design/methodology/approach Using the hierarchical prior of Gelman et al...