World Development 

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss methodological issues surrounding those estimates and confirm that primary education continues to be the number one investment priority in developing countries, and also show that educating females is marginally more profitable than educating males, and that the academic secondary school curriculum is a better investment than the technical/vocational tract.

TL;DR: A critical history of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) can be found in this article, where a new generation of decomposition and efficient frontier models can help disentangle the true relations between development and the environment and may lead to the demise of the classic EKC.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the conceptual origins of the community, and the ways the term has been deployed in writings on resource use, and analyze those aspects of community most important to advocates for community's role in resource management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop an analytical framework for analyzing rural livelihoods in terms of their sustainability and their implications for rural poverty, arguing that the analysis of rural livelihood needs to understand people's access to five types of capital asset and the ways in which they combine and transform those assets in the building of livelihoods that as far as possible meet their material and their experiential needs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple framework for explaining the growth of national capabilities is set out, based on the interplay of incentives, capabilities and institutions, and the experience of some industrializing countries is described to assess the validity of this framework.