UNU-WIDER WIDER Angle February 2011

FEBRUARY 2011

FEATURE ARTICLE

The West is finding it harder to get its own way in the world
Ian Morris. Full article.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Papers: Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2011 (NCDE11), Copenhagen, Denmark (20-21 June 2011) Read more...

Call for Papers: UNU-WIDER Conference on Poverty and Behavioural Economics, Helsinki, Finland (1-2 September 2011) Read more...

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) ranked among the world's top-ten International Development Think Tanks, according to the 2010 Global Go-To Think Tank Ranking report. 24 January 2011

UPCOMING EVENTS

Exhibition: Maailma Kylässä - World Village Festival, Helsinki, Finland
28 May 2011

RECENT EVENTS

Seminar: Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle? Paris, France 24 February 2011

Book Launch: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Palgrave Macmillan), Edited by Wim Naudé 24 February 2011

Seminar: SOAS Seminar on Aid and Development in Asia and Africa: 'The Role of Infrastructure and Capacity Development in East Asia Growth and its Implication for African Development' 17 February 2011Sustainable Development in a Period of Climate Change
Copenhagen, Denmark 31 January 2011

'2010' The Global Go-To Think Tanks Index, United Nations University in New York, USA 18 January 2011

Workshop: Challenges for Development Research: Decentralisation, the Transfer of Land, Impact Assessment and Design of Development Programmes, Institutional Failures, and using Agriculture for Development
Hanoi, Vietnam 6 January 2011

Project Meeting: Land Inequality, Conflict and Reform in LDCs
Hanoi, Vietnam 3 January 2011

PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Edited by Wim Naudé

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development (forthcoming)
Edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Micheline Goedhuys

Health Inequality and Development
Edited by Mark McGillivray, Indranil Dutta and David Lawson

Understanding Small-Island Developing States: Fragility and External Shocks
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray
and Wim Naudé

Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur

Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/

WIDER Working Papers 2011

Determinants of Industrial Embeddedness: Evidence from African Manufacturing Firms
Abdelrasaq Na-Allah WP/08

Are Electoral Coalitions Harmful for Democratic Consolidation in Africa?
Danielle Resnick WP/07

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Developing Countries’ Terms of Trade
Konstantin M. Wacker WP/06

Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Dennis Rodgers, Jo Beall, and Ravi Kanbur WP/05

Aid Supplies Over Time: Accounting for Heterogeneity, Trends, and Dynamics
Sam Jones WP/04

Sensitivity of Loan Size to Lending Rates: Evidence from Ghana’s Microfinance Sector
Samuel Kobina Annim WP/03

Thailand’s Development Strategy and Growth Performance
Peter Warr  WP/02

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence
Augustin Kwasi Fosu WP/01

WIDER Working Papers 2010

Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/