WIDER Angle
Highlights
UNU-WIDER and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the area of climate change capacity building and research. As one of the first concrete steps UNU-WIDER/AERC have jointly announced the following programmes: The UNU-WIDER/AERC PhD Research Internship Programme, and the UNU-WIDER/AERC Visiting Scholars Programme.
AUGUST 2010
FEATURE ARTICLE AND HIGHLIGHTS
Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Maria Minniti and Wim Naudé. Full article.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Development under Climate Change (special session at PEGNET 2010 Annual Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa)
2-3 September 2010
Book Launch: Southern Engines of Global Growth (Oxford University Press). UN, New York, USA
14 September 2010
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Professor Ernest Aryeetey, new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana. The Director of UNU-WIDER and its entire staff wish to warmly congratulate Chair of UNU-WIDER Board, Professor Ernest Aryeetey on his appointment to the post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana. Full article.
The Visiting scholars and PhD Research internship programmes are posted in Opportunities.
All closing dates for applications are 30 September 2010.
For more information on how to apply, see Opportunities.
For more information on our current programme, see Research.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals
Southern Engines of Global Growth
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan
Special Section: Female Entrepreneurship across Countries and in Development
The European Journal of Development Research, Volume 22(3)
Guest Editors Maria Minniti and Wim Naudé
UNU-WIDER Special Issue on Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
The Journal of Development Studies, Volume 46(5)
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray and Wim Naudé
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
WIDER Working Papers
European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and Sectors Erik Berglöf, Lise Bruynooghe, Heike Harmgart, Peter Sanfey, Helena Schweiger, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer WP2010/91
The Economic Legacy of Civil War: Firm Level Evidence from Sierra Leone
Paul Collier and Marguerite Duponchel WP2010/90
Country Role Models: Synthesis of Ireland, Japan and Switzerland
Ronald Findlay WP2010/89
The Swedish Model
Ari Kokko WP2010/88
Foundations of Minority Communities: Resident Koreans in Japan
David Rands WP2010/87
The Impact of Multiple Imputation of Coarsened Data on Estimates on the Working Poor in South Africa
Claire Vermaak WP2010/86
Elites and Institutional Persistence
James A. Robinson WP2010/85
Why Are the Elite in China Motivated to Promote Growth?
Xiaowei Zang WP2010/84
The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?
Gérard Roland WP2010/83
Elite Capture or Capture Elites? Lessons from the 'Counter-elite'
and 'Co-opt-elite' Approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana
Sam Wong WP2010/82
Two for the Price of One? The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites
Alison Wolf WP2010/81
ICT Sector, Globalization and Urban Economic Growth: Evidence from Bangalore (India)
M. R. Narayana WP2010/80
Globalizing Shanghai: International Migration and the Global City
Wei Shen WP2010/79
Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission-Based Productivity Change and Industrialization in Post-Reform China
Shiyi Chen and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino WP2010/78
When Unstable, Growth Is Less Pro-Poor
Patrick Guillaumont and Catherine Korachais WP2010/77
Subjective Poverty and Reference-Dependence:
Income over Time, Aspirations and Reference Groups
Carolina Castilla WP2010/76
Misuse of Institutions: Lessons from Transition
Leonid Polishchuk WP2010/75
Poverty and Time
Walter Bossert, Satya R. Chakravarty and Conchita d'Ambrosio WP2010/74
Empirical Issues in Lifetime Poverty Measurement
Michael Hoy, Brennan Scott Thompson and Buhong Zheng WP2010/73
Measuring the Effect of Spell Recurrence on Poverty Dynamics
José Maria Arranz and Olga Cantó WP2010/72
On Some Problems of Variable Population Poverty Comparisons
Nicole Hassoun and S. Subramanian WP2010/71
Globalization and Exclusionary Urban Growth in Asian Countries
Amitabh Kundu and Debolina Kundu WP2010/70
How Production Firms Adapt to War: The Case of Liberia
Topher L. McDougal WP2010/69
Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach
Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé WP2010/68
Globalizing Households and Multi-ethnic Community Building in Japan
Chihiro Ishii WP2010/67
Health and the Urban Transition: Effects of Household Perceptions, Illness, and Environmental Pollution on Clean Water Investment
James H. Spencer WP2010/66
Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis
Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé WP2010/57
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/