Feature articles of WIDER Angle November 2011
ReCom – Research and Communication on Foreign Aid are featured in the WIDER Angle November 2011. As we come to the end of November, the snow has yet to arrive in Helsinki. We continue to enjoy clear skies and spectacular sunsets across the calm Baltic, but we are losing two minutes of light every day as we head towards the shortest day of the year. Read more.
FEATURE ARTICLES
From the Editor's desk
Tony Addison
So with winter almost upon us, it is a good time to take stock. In this month’s Angle, we return to global trade governance, with Part 2 of Alisa DiCaprio’s article. Lucy Scott focuses on Bangladesh’s achievements and challenges. Lucy and I also pick out some messages for the high-level aid meeting takeing place in Busan, South Korea. And I reflect further on the currency wars, after my first piece on this topic in last month’s Angle . Readers will see me repeatedly returning to currencies in 2012 as there is no shortage of excitement, especially in the eurozone. Full article.
Rules or Engagement? Development Implications of the Doha Round Negotiations (Part II)
Alisa DiCaprio
Part II: Engagement with Developing Countries. This is Part 2 of a 2-part analysis of the upcoming WTO 8th Ministerial Conference in December 2011. Full article.
Linking Aid Effectiveness to Development Outcomes: A Priority for Busan
Tony Addison and Lucy Scott
This article draws upon on-going conversations and debates about the aid effectiveness agenda. It discusses how the agenda can move-forwards in addressing one of its major shortcomings, the fact that it does not link the principles of aid effectiveness to the substance of what should be done to achieve development outcomes. Full article.
Inequality in Latin America: Two New WIDER Working Papers
Annett Victorero
New political wind is blowing through Latin America, one that is changing old economic and political patterns of life and behaviour. This in turn has affected the discourse around poverty. Full Article.
Resilient People, Fragile Governance: The Success of Bangladesh so Far (Part I)
Lucy Scott
Bangladesh has made some remarkable strides in development and poverty reduction since independence. Yet the country is in many ways a paradox of success combined with often weak governance. This two-part article explores the paradox. Part 2 will appear in the next issue of Angle. Full article.
What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part II)
Tony Addison
Part 1 of this two-part article, which appeared in the October Angle, focused on Latin America and Europe. Part 2 discusses the latest turbulence in the eurozone as well as China’s exchange rate dispute with the United Sates. Full article.
NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS
Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER is awarded the development merit ‘Medal for the Cause of Science and Technology’ from Vietnam. See News.
Further thoughts on aid and the HLF4 can be found here in our ReCom Busan briefing paper.
ReCom briefing paper: Linking Aid Effectiveness to Development Outcomes: A Priority for Busan.pdf
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UPCOMING EVENTS
AERC and UNU-WIDER Conference: Macro-economic Management of Foreign Aid, Nairobi, Kenya
2-3 December 2011
Conference on Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture
Rabat, Morocco 6-7 December 2011
UNU-WIDER and HECER Seminar: Macroeconomics and Development seminar series: ‘It’s a Deals World: The Dynamics of Capitalism with Weak Institutions’, by Lant Pritchett of Harvard University. Helsinki 14 December 2011
RECENT EVENTS
Book Launch and Lecture: Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Oxford University Press)
Edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur
London, UK 6 October 2011
UNU-WIDER and HECER Seminar: Growth, Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence
by Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Helsinki, Finland 5 October 2011
Group visit by students of University of Tampere 23 November 2011
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals
Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa
Daniel Ayalew Ali, Klaus Deininger, and Markus Goldstein WP/74
Innovative Delivery Mechanisms for Increased Aid Budgets
Matthew Clarke WP/73
The Political Economy of Aid Flows to North Africa
Jane Harrigan WP/72
The Long-Run Behaviour of the Terms of Trade between Primary Commodities and Manufactures
Jesús Otero and Ana María Iregui WP/71
A New Fiscal Pact, Tax Policy Changes and Income Inequality
Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Juan Carlos Gómez-Sabaini and Bruno Martorano WP/70
On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America
Armando Barrientos WP/69
Improving Donor Support for Urban Poverty Reduction
Nicola Banks WP/68
Rethinking the World of Aid in the Twenty First Century
Peter S. Heller WP/67
Foreign Assistance in a Climate-Constrained World
Channing Arndt and Christian Friis Bach WP/66
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
November 2011
ISSN 1238-9544
