WIDER Angle March 2011
MARCH 2011
FEATURE ARTICLE
The Entrepreneurship-Innovation Nexus in Development
Wim Naudé and Adam Szirmai. 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
Vacancy announcements
More information on each vacancy and how to apply.
Vacancy announcement for Research Associate (PSA). Closing date 1 April 2011. Read more
Vacancy announcement for Senior Research Fellow (P-5). Closing date 19 April 2011 Read more
Vacancy announcement for Research Fellow (P-4). Closing date 19 April 2011. Read more
Vancy announcement for Research Fellow (P-3). Closing date 19 April 2011. Read more
Vacancy announcement for Research Fellow (P-2). Closing date 19 April 2011. Read more
UPCOMING EVENTS
Call for Papers: UNU-WIDER Conference on Poverty and Behavioural Economics 1 September 2011
Project meeting: The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Evidence from the Last Decade and Prospects fro the Future, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1 September 2011
Project meeting: Foreign Aid and Democracy 15 August 2011
Project meeting: Decentralization and Urban Service Delivery: Implications for Foreign Aid 11 July 2011
Call for Papers: Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2011 (NCDE11), Copenhagen, Denmark 20 June 2011
Exhibition: Maailma Kylässä - World Village Festival 28 May 2011
Project meeting: Learning to Compete: Accelerating Industrial Development in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya 27 May 2011
WIDER Annual Lecture 15: New Structural Economics, by Justin Yifu Lin, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist of The World Bank. To be held in Maputo, Mozambique 4 May 2011
Group visit by students of Estonian School of Diplomacy 13 April 2011
RECENT EVENTS
Finnish Development Days, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department of Development Policy, Helsinki, Finland 22 March 2011
Public lecture: Climate Change and Economic Development, Tampere, Finland 22 March 2011
The Impact of Aid – What is the impact of aid on economic development, recipient governments and donors themselves? Stockholm, Sweden
9 March 2011
Group visit by students of Helsinki University's Faculty of Social Sciences
3 March 2011
Public lecture: Aid, Growth and Development, Tampere, Finland
1 March 2011
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 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/
Globalization Crises, Trade, and Development in Vietnam
Philip Abbott and Finn Tarp WP/20
Does Lack of Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Retard Economic Growth in Africa?
Steve Onyeiwu WP/19
Population Size, Per Capita Income, and the Risk of Civil War
Markus Brückner WP/18
Explaining Poverty Evolution: The Case of Mozambique
Channing Arndt, M. Azhar Hussain, E. Samuel Jones, Virgulino Nhate, Finn Tarp, James Thurlow WP/17
Separate but Equal Democratization?
Dennis Rodgers WP/16
Irregular Urbanization as a Catalyst for Radical Social Mobilization
Lucy Earle WP/15
Exchange Rate Regimes and Trade
Mahvash Saeed Qureshi and Charalambos G. Tsangarides WP/14
Significance of Public Space in the Fragmented City
Flavio Janches WP/13
A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life
Eduardo Lora and Andrew Powell WP/12
Socio-Spatial Implications of Street Market Regulation Policy
Lissette Aliaga Linares WP/11
Growth and Recovery in a Time of Default
Michael Cohen WP/10
Cocaine Cities
Ignacio A. Navarro WP/09
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/