Robert Read
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3673394 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert Read |
| NOMBRES | Robert |
| APELLIDO | Read |
| FIRMA | READ R |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8001-1900 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 15 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Poly-Rhythmic City
Gradual and invisible, “slow violence” has been applied to housing and urban redevelopment, gentrification, and its embodiment as stress and anxiety by those affected, usually the least well-off. This article presents a case study of the London Community Land Trust (CLT), which was engendered from a combination of the longstanding traditions of East End opposition to social harms, combined with new mutual housing forms that emerged in the early 2…
Negotiating Shared Lives
Urban Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have been acclaimed for their politically transformative potential: de-commodifying land and providing permanently affordable housing under community control. Few studies include CLT residents and this paper features two case studies to help fill the gap. St Clements in East London, UK, and Citizens House, Southeast London, both created by London CLT, collectively have 34 households living in them. Unlike more g…
Determinants of food security status of household in Central and North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia
In rural Ethiopian food, the security status of the household is at the most horrible stage. Ensuring food security in Ethiopia is becoming a great challenge due to different factors. Therefore, the study aimed to identify determinants of food security in the study area. A simple random sampling technique was employed to take 500 sample respondents. Both quantitative and qualitative types of data were collected. Primary data were collected throug…
Constrained crop enterprise choices by smallholder farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe
Smallholder irrigation schemes are critical in sustaining livelihoods of communities in the drier areas of Zimbabwe. The performance of these schemes as food and incomes safety nets has been questionable over recent times. Using a multinomial logit model, the study examines factors affecting smallholder irrigation farmers’ selection of crop enterprises in their crop mix decisions. The paper uses cross-sectional data from 136 small holder irrigati…
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian National Security, and human and food security in the Nile River Basin
For centuries and emboldened by colonial treaties, Egypt has enjoyed overwhelming hydro-hegemony in the (NBR) Nile Basin River region. However, Egyptian dominance over the NBR has been challenged by Ethiopia following her unilateral construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Using A qualitative, deductive approach based on multiple sources of evidence, this paper analyses the historical imbalance in the Nile colonial treaties that gave …
‘Look East Policy’ after 35 years from social sciences perspectives
Malaysia had looked to Japan to search for a sustainable and efficient development model under the Look East Policy (LEP) initiative launched in 1982 by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. At the time, this ideal formula, intended for the betterment of the Malaysian economy, was designed to incorporate the Japanese attitude to work, their moral values, progressive norms, and work ethics. Since then, more than 15,000 Malaysians expatria…
Public choice and decentralised healthcare service delivery in Lesotho
Providing efficient decentralised local public services such as healthcare in hard to reach and remote areas has been the recent concern of public finance experts. Thus public finance theory, the public choice, has been devoted to explain the link between decentralised local public service delivery and efficiency. The theory argues that efficient delivery of decentralised local public service is achieved through the proximity advantage of local m…
The effect of illicit financial flows on government revenues in the West African Economic and Monetary Union countries
This is a study of the effect of illicit financial flows (IFFs) on government revenues in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries over the 1996a-2013 period. The study found that IFFs had a negative and significant effect on government revenues and that this effect was tied to per capita income, corruption and governance. It further highlighted the significance of the per capita income in the relationship between illicit fi…
Corruption and extreme wealth. Evidence at country level
The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that extreme wealth at country level is a consequence of corruption for a set of 42 countries over the period 2005–2018. A dynamic estimation (sys-GMM) is conducted, and different indices of corruption are used in order to obtain solid results. The data on extreme wealth is taken from Forbes annual listing of billionaires. The main findings are highly supportive of the idea that corruption fosters extreme we…
The nexus between education and poverty reduction in Ghana from 2013 to 2017
Generally, poverty levels in Ghana have reduced over the past decade. Still, extreme poverty increased from 2.2 million in 2013 to 2.4 million in 2017. This study was conducted to assess the nexus between education and poverty reduction in Ghana. Data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) rounds six (2012/2013) and seven (2016/2017) with a total sample size of 30,781 was used. Using the probit and logit models and two-stage least square es…
Understanding climate smart agriculture and the resilience of smallholder farmers in Umguza district, Zimbabwe
Climate smart agriculture has enhanced the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming in Umguza District of Zimbabwe. This study documents how smallholder farmers in Umguza District have responded to the adverse effects of climate change by venturing into small grains production, conservation farming and small livestock production. This paper discusses the vulnerability of smallholder farmers in Umguza District to climate change induced …
Analysing the risk tolerance levels of stokvel investors
Stokvels (globally known as credit unions) as an investment alternative has been one of the most profitable informal investment products. Yet, it is not recognised as a formal investment product due to the large risk attached to its informal investment process. For this reason, it is pertinent to analyse the propensity to take risk of investors who choose to invest in stokvels compared to other investment products. Therefore, to profile stock inv…
Political decentralization, fiscal centralization, and its consequences in case of Pakistan
The political and fiscal institutions are arguably the most significant factors that determine the way a society operates. Some countries, such as the USA and Canada, have decentralized political and fiscal institutions, and some are centralized, e.g., China and Singapore. However, this is not true in Pakistan. This paper, first, explains that Pakistan has decentralized political and centralized fiscal institutions. It then describes how the Paki…
The effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in Sub-Sahara Africa
This paper investigated the threshold effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using an annual dataset spanning 2010 to 2017, the Hansen’s estimation and Differenced generalized method of moments (GMM) methods were used to estimate the threshold level of financial inclusion that will reduce poverty and factors that influence financial inclusion respectively. The results showed that beyond a threshold level o…
Comprehending Brunei Darussalam’s vanishing claims in the South China Sea
Under the lens of Neoclassical Realism, this article aims to comprehend the vanishing claims of Brunei in the South China Sea, by considering systemic stimuli and elite perceptions as major factors to the foreign policy decision. The results of this research indicate that; (1) The current Multipolar International system contributed to Brunei’s decision to secure BRI-related development investments and to advance the two-way trade between the coun…
The non-sovereign territories
This paper analyses the economic and geographic characteristics of the world’s principal non-sovereign territories in the context of the growth challenges facing small economies. These territories enjoy high degrees of policy autonomy within a complex array of relationships with their metropolitan countries. Seven of the ten metropolitan powers are European and account for 38 of the 49 inhabited non-sovereign territories. The territories’ distinc…
Crises & the challenges facing the UK’s non-sovereign territories
The world’s 49 inhabited non-sovereign overseas territories (NSTs) – 13 of which are UK overseas territories (OTs) or Crown Dependencies (CDs)1 – are neither fully independent nor integrated sub-na
International financial reporting standards (IFRSs) adoption in Africa
Countries in Africa have since joined their counterparts in other regions of the world in adopting IFRSs with over 30 countries either requiring or permitting its use for its companies. This study contributes to academic literature as it presents a bibliometric analysis on the state of IFRS research in Africa. The analysis involves 73 published articles listed on Scopus database between 2005 and 2018. Key findings in the study indicate that the f…
Is social justice the superior economic growth model? Comparative analysis on G20 countries
During 2006 to 2016, a panel link between social justice and economic growth is explored by performing the comparative analysis of G20 countries. The relationship between social justice and economic growth is exhibited as a U-shaped function. Economic growth is a quadratic equation of social justice. In addition, the path of economic growth is developed from “Double low”, “Justice leading” to “Double high”. Through case studies, public policy sho…
Size and Sectoral Specialisation
This paper analyses the cross‐country impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent recovery process, with a specific focus on small economies. Key growth volatility variables highlight the critical exposure of small economies to the transmission of exogenous shocks owing to their high degrees of trade openness and inherent output and export specialisation, notably in financial services and tourism. These factors also constrain t…
The impact of the 2008 global crisis on small economies in the Caribbean
This paper investigates the impact of the global 2008 crisis on the Caribbean region, with particular focus on its many small tourism-dependent economies. Specialization in tourism and, in some cases, offshore financial services has been a successful specialization strategy for many small economies but has made them highly susceptible to exogenous economic shocks. The paper utilizes cluster analysis to identify five distinct pre-crisis patterns o…
Irish Economic Development
Irish Economic Development: High-Performing EU State or Serial Under-Achiever?." Regional Studies, 50(9), pp. 1631–1632
The significance of geographic location in island studies
This rejoinder seeks to build upon McElroy and Lucas’ excellent paper by exploring further the relationship between distances from small islands to their main markets and economic performance. It is argued that the nature of this relationship is not only statistically very strong but also that it is nuanced and multifaceted. A very fruitful set of areas for further future research awaits any researcher brave and energetic enough to pick up the ba…
Trade, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Geographical 'handicaps' and small states
Research on the economic performance of small states has concentrated on the implications of small size and thin local markets. An interesting feature of many of the world's smallest states, of which the Pacific region has many, is that they face additional challenges than just small size. Many are remote from global markets for their products. In addition, a large number are also islands, many of which are also mountainous. Many of the smaller s…
A comparison of the economic performance of different micro-states, and between micro-states and larger countries
Comparing the Economic Performance of Dependent Territories and Sovereign Microstates
The Implications of Increasing Globalization and Regionalism for the Economic Growth of Small Island States
Geographical 'handicaps' and small states
Research on the economic performance of small states has concentrated on the implications of small size and thin local markets. An interesting feature of many of the world's smallest states, of which the Pacific region has many, is that they face additional challenges than just small size. Many are remote from global markets for their products. In addition, a large number are also islands, many of which are also mountainous. Many of the smaller s…
Western European micro-states and EU autonomous regions
The Determinants of Economic Growth in Small States
This paper provides a critical survey of the principal theoretical issues and empirical findings relating to the analysis of the economic growth of small states. This analysis provides a brief critique of the inapplicability of the Lewis model of industrialization to small states. It draws upon insights derived from endogenous growth theory to demonstrate that growth in small states can be explained by the key 'conditioning' variables, notably op…
Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
Journal Article Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: The Case of Germany Get access Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: The Case of Germany. By J. P. Agarwal, A. Gubitz and P. Nunnenkamp. (Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1991. Pp. x + 171. ISBN 3 16 145788 9.) Robert Read Robert Read Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, …
The non-sovereign territories
This paper analyses the economic and geographic characteristics of the world’s principal non-sovereign territories in the context of the growth challenges facing small economies. These territories enjoy high degrees of policy autonomy within a complex array of relationships with their metropolitan countries. Seven of the ten metropolitan powers are European and account for 38 of the 49 inhabited non-sovereign territories. The territories’ distinc…
The significance of geographic location in island studies
This rejoinder seeks to build upon McElroy and Lucas’ excellent paper by exploring further the relationship between distances from small islands to their main markets and economic performance. It is argued that the nature of this relationship is not only statistically very strong but also that it is nuanced and multifaceted. A very fruitful set of areas for further future research awaits any researcher brave and energetic enough to pick up the ba…
Sustainable natural resource use and economic development in small states
This paper is concerned with the sustainable management of the Western Pacific tuna fishery given its critical contribution to the economies of many small island developing states in the region. The paper focuses on contrasting the operation, regulation and management of the tuna fisheries in two Pacific island states, Fiji and Samoa, in the light of progress in regional fishery co‐operation, and is based upon research undertaken in 2003. The ana…
Micro-States, Autonomous Regions and the European Union
Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
Journal Article Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: The Case of Germany Get access Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: The Case of Germany. By J. P. Agarwal, A. Gubitz and P. Nunnenkamp. (Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1991. Pp. x + 171. ISBN 3 16 145788 9.) Robert Read Robert Read Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, …
Micro-States, Autonomous Regions and the European Union
Western European micro-states and EU autonomous regions
A comparison of the economic performance of different micro-states, and between micro-states and larger countries
‘… The old stone fortt at Newcastle …’ The Redoubt, Nevis, eastern Caribbean
The impending destruction of a small, crenellated stone fortification of 17th-century English construction located on the coast of the Caribbean island of Nevis prompted its preservation by record. Each interior and exterior elevation has been recorded by scaled drawings and photographs. Limited excavation of the interior revealed that there had been a mortared floor which continued through the only doorway, unusually located to face the sea. Doc…
Comparing the Economic Performance of Dependent Territories and Sovereign Microstates
The Implications of Increasing Globalization and Regionalism for the Economic Growth of Small Island States
The Determinants of Economic Growth in Small States
This paper provides a critical survey of the principal theoretical issues and empirical findings relating to the analysis of the economic growth of small states. This analysis provides a brief critique of the inapplicability of the Lewis model of industrialization to small states. It draws upon insights derived from endogenous growth theory to demonstrate that growth in small states can be explained by the key 'conditioning' variables, notably op…
Geographical 'handicaps' and small states
Research on the economic performance of small states has concentrated on the implications of small size and thin local markets. An interesting feature of many of the world's smallest states, of which the Pacific region has many, is that they face additional challenges than just small size. Many are remote from global markets for their products. In addition, a large number are also islands, many of which are also mountainous. Many of the smaller s…
Sustainable natural resource use and economic development in small states
This paper is concerned with the sustainable management of the Western Pacific tuna fishery given its critical contribution to the economies of many small island developing states in the region. The paper focuses on contrasting the operation, regulation and management of the tuna fisheries in two Pacific island states, Fiji and Samoa, in the light of progress in regional fishery co‐operation, and is based upon research undertaken in 2003. The ana…
Trade, Growth and Poverty Reduction
The significance of geographic location in island studies
This rejoinder seeks to build upon McElroy and Lucas’ excellent paper by exploring further the relationship between distances from small islands to their main markets and economic performance. It is argued that the nature of this relationship is not only statistically very strong but also that it is nuanced and multifaceted. A very fruitful set of areas for further future research awaits any researcher brave and energetic enough to pick up the ba…
Irish Economic Development
Irish Economic Development: High-Performing EU State or Serial Under-Achiever?." Regional Studies, 50(9), pp. 1631–1632
The impact of the 2008 global crisis on small economies in the Caribbean
This paper investigates the impact of the global 2008 crisis on the Caribbean region, with particular focus on its many small tourism-dependent economies. Specialization in tourism and, in some cases, offshore financial services has been a successful specialization strategy for many small economies but has made them highly susceptible to exogenous economic shocks. The paper utilizes cluster analysis to identify five distinct pre-crisis patterns o…
International financial reporting standards (IFRSs) adoption in Africa
Countries in Africa have since joined their counterparts in other regions of the world in adopting IFRSs with over 30 countries either requiring or permitting its use for its companies. This study contributes to academic literature as it presents a bibliometric analysis on the state of IFRS research in Africa. The analysis involves 73 published articles listed on Scopus database between 2005 and 2018. Key findings in the study indicate that the f…
Is social justice the superior economic growth model? Comparative analysis on G20 countries
During 2006 to 2016, a panel link between social justice and economic growth is explored by performing the comparative analysis of G20 countries. The relationship between social justice and economic growth is exhibited as a U-shaped function. Economic growth is a quadratic equation of social justice. In addition, the path of economic growth is developed from “Double low”, “Justice leading” to “Double high”. Through case studies, public policy sho…
Size and Sectoral Specialisation
This paper analyses the cross‐country impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent recovery process, with a specific focus on small economies. Key growth volatility variables highlight the critical exposure of small economies to the transmission of exogenous shocks owing to their high degrees of trade openness and inherent output and export specialisation, notably in financial services and tourism. These factors also constrain t…
Constrained crop enterprise choices by smallholder farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe
Smallholder irrigation schemes are critical in sustaining livelihoods of communities in the drier areas of Zimbabwe. The performance of these schemes as food and incomes safety nets has been questionable over recent times. Using a multinomial logit model, the study examines factors affecting smallholder irrigation farmers’ selection of crop enterprises in their crop mix decisions. The paper uses cross-sectional data from 136 small holder irrigati…
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian National Security, and human and food security in the Nile River Basin
For centuries and emboldened by colonial treaties, Egypt has enjoyed overwhelming hydro-hegemony in the (NBR) Nile Basin River region. However, Egyptian dominance over the NBR has been challenged by Ethiopia following her unilateral construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Using A qualitative, deductive approach based on multiple sources of evidence, this paper analyses the historical imbalance in the Nile colonial treaties that gave …
‘Look East Policy’ after 35 years from social sciences perspectives
Malaysia had looked to Japan to search for a sustainable and efficient development model under the Look East Policy (LEP) initiative launched in 1982 by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. At the time, this ideal formula, intended for the betterment of the Malaysian economy, was designed to incorporate the Japanese attitude to work, their moral values, progressive norms, and work ethics. Since then, more than 15,000 Malaysians expatria…
Public choice and decentralised healthcare service delivery in Lesotho
Providing efficient decentralised local public services such as healthcare in hard to reach and remote areas has been the recent concern of public finance experts. Thus public finance theory, the public choice, has been devoted to explain the link between decentralised local public service delivery and efficiency. The theory argues that efficient delivery of decentralised local public service is achieved through the proximity advantage of local m…
The effect of illicit financial flows on government revenues in the West African Economic and Monetary Union countries
This is a study of the effect of illicit financial flows (IFFs) on government revenues in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries over the 1996a-2013 period. The study found that IFFs had a negative and significant effect on government revenues and that this effect was tied to per capita income, corruption and governance. It further highlighted the significance of the per capita income in the relationship between illicit fi…
Corruption and extreme wealth. Evidence at country level
The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that extreme wealth at country level is a consequence of corruption for a set of 42 countries over the period 2005–2018. A dynamic estimation (sys-GMM) is conducted, and different indices of corruption are used in order to obtain solid results. The data on extreme wealth is taken from Forbes annual listing of billionaires. The main findings are highly supportive of the idea that corruption fosters extreme we…
The nexus between education and poverty reduction in Ghana from 2013 to 2017
Generally, poverty levels in Ghana have reduced over the past decade. Still, extreme poverty increased from 2.2 million in 2013 to 2.4 million in 2017. This study was conducted to assess the nexus between education and poverty reduction in Ghana. Data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) rounds six (2012/2013) and seven (2016/2017) with a total sample size of 30,781 was used. Using the probit and logit models and two-stage least square es…
Understanding climate smart agriculture and the resilience of smallholder farmers in Umguza district, Zimbabwe
Climate smart agriculture has enhanced the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming in Umguza District of Zimbabwe. This study documents how smallholder farmers in Umguza District have responded to the adverse effects of climate change by venturing into small grains production, conservation farming and small livestock production. This paper discusses the vulnerability of smallholder farmers in Umguza District to climate change induced …
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