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Feature articles

October 2009

• What Can Developing Countries Learn From Finland’s Industrial Transformation?
  Markus Jäntti and Juhana Vartiainen
  Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development: Lessons from Finland
  Otto Toivanen
  

September 2009

• UNU-WIDER: More Needed Than Ever
  Finn Tarp.
  Vulnerability in Developing Countries
  Wim Naudé, Amelia Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray

August 2009

• The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America
  Marco V. Sánchez and Rob Vos
  Aligning Elites with Development
  Alice Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, and James Robinson
  Getting Serious About Food
  Luc Christiaensen

July 2009

• Private Military Companies from Renaissance Italy to Modern Day Afghanistan
  Jurgen Brauer

June 2009

• Africa’s Recovery from the Global Economic Crisis
  Augustin Fosu and Wim Naudé
  Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Arab Region
  Imed Drine

May 2009

• Entrepreneurship, Sovereignty, and Violent Social Conflict
  Jurgen Brauer and Robert Haywood
  Is Manufacturing Still the Main Engine of Growth in Developing Countries ?
  Adam Szirmai
  

April 2009

• How American Capitalism Really Works: Some Lessons for Developing Countries
  William Lazonick
  After the G-20 Summit: What Prospects for Global Development?
  Wim Naudé

March 2009

• Wealth Distribution, the Financial Crisis and Entrepreneurship
  Wim Naudé and James C. MacGee
  Can Entrepreneurship Make Peace Work?
  Tony Addison and Tilman Brück

February 2009

• The Climate Change Challenge: Two Arguments for Acting Now
  Kemal Derviş
  How Will the Financial Crisis Impact on the Developing World and What Can Be Done About It? Wim Naudé

January 2009

• Foreign Aid: Down but Not Out
  Peter Burnell
  Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development: Looking at the MDGs from a Different Angle? George Mavrotas

December 2008

• Financial Development and Income Inequality in Rural China
  Zhicheng Liang

November 2008

• Development Finance: New Opportunities for Doha
  Tony Addison and George Mavrotas
  Finance and Development: What we Know and What we Need to Know
  Svetlana Andrianova and Panicos Demetriades

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