Feature articles of WIDER Angle October 2011
Seven articles highlighting ReCom and our Current Research Programme are featured in the WIDER Angle October 2011. As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition. Regular readers of Angle will have noted the increase in the number of feature articles over the past months. Read more.
From the Editor’s Desk
Tony Addison
As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle. Regular readers of Angle will have noted the increase in the number of feature articles over the past months. Read more.
On Aid and Growth: Reflections ahead of Busan
Finn Tarp
Not a month goes by without some sort of bad news about foreign aid. Examples of incompetence, abuse of funds by corrupt leaders, and distorted incentives abound. These stories fuel a deep scepticism of foreign aid. Read more.
Perspectives for Busan: from ReCom
Tony Addison, Lucy Scott, and Annett Victorero
Aid effectiveness was a recurrent theme during the UNU-WIDER conference on ‘Foreign Aid: Research and Communication’ (ReCom), held in October in Helsinki. Read more.
Foreign Aid and Democratization in Africa
Danielle Resnick
In just a little over a month, policy makers will converge in Busan, South Korea for the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Read more.
Urbanization and Development – The Big Questions
Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen
In September the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted the launch of Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur (published by Oxford University Press for UNU-WIDER). Read more.
Rules or Engagement? Development Implications of the Doha Round Negotiation - Part 1
Alisa DiCaprio
There has been much wringing of hands about the expected outcome of the WTO's 8th Ministerial Conference (MC8) in December. It is likely to be the second Ministerial in a row where no progress will have been made on the Doha Development Agenda. Even the mooted Least Developed Countries (LDC) package—which the LDCs themselves admit will have little impact on trade—is now seen as unlikely to move forward. Read more.
What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? Part 1
Tony Addison
There is a famous British poster from 1915 of a father sitting in a comfy post-war armchair, but with an anxious face. His son is playing with toy soldiers, while his daughter is turning to him asking: ‘Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?’. Read more.
News & Highlights
As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of WIDER Angle. Regular readers of Angle will have noted the increase in the number of feature articles over the past months. We are stepping up our communication of research findings, notably from our Foreign Aid: Research and Communication (ReCom) programme, launched this year in partnership with the governments of Denmark and Sweden.
ISN, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
October 2011
Conference: UNU-WIDER Conference on Foreign Aid: Research and Communication (ReCom)
Helsinki, Finland 30 September 20
UPCOMING EVENTS
AERC and UNU-WIDER Conference: Macro-economic Management of Foreign Aid, Nairobi, Kenya 2 December 2011
Conference on Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture
Rabat, Morocco 6 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
Conference: UNU-WIDER Conference on Foreign Aid: Research and Communication (ReCom), Helsinki Finland 30 September 2011
Photo gallery of the Conference on Foreign Aid: ReCom event
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals
Article: The Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in Vietnam
James Thurlow, Finn Tarp, Simon McCoy, Nguyen Manh Hai, Clemens Breisinger, Channing Arndt
Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur
The Effects of the European Union’s and China’s Trade Agreements on Africa’s Exports
Olayinka Idowu Kareem and Fatima Olanike Kareem WP/65
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy?
Thierry Kangoye WP/64
Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of Help
Rosalia de la Cruz Gitau WP/63
Is It What You Inherited Or What You Learnt?
Sylvie Lambert, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle WP/62
Emerging Evidence on the Relative Importance of Sectoral Sources of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eric Kehinde Ogunleye WP/61
Halving Poverty in South Africa: Growth and Distributional Aspects Fiona Tregenna WP/60
A Re-examination of the Relation between Democracy and International Trade: The Case of Africa
Christopher Balding WP/59
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
October 2011
ISSN 1238-9544
