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WIDER Angle Articles 2011
WIDER Angle December 2011
From the Editor's desk
Tony Addison
UNU-WIDER remembers President Václav Havel, 1936-2011
Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen
Foreign Assistance in a Climate-Constrained World
Channing Arndt and Christian Friis Bach
Aid in North Africa after the 'Arab Spring'
Jane Harrigan
Lessons of Experience in International Democracy Support
Peter Burnell
Rethinking Aid Allocation in the Light of Global Challenges We Are Facing
Peter S. Heller
Resilient People, Fragile Governance: Bangladesh Achieving Middle-Income Status (Part 2)
Lucy Scott
Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure: Mozambique and Vietnam Compared
Channing Arndt, Andres Garcia, Finn Tarp, and James Thurlow
WIDER Angle November 2011
From the Editor's desk
Tony Addison
Rules or Engagement? Development Implications of the Doha Round Negotiations (Part II)
Alisa DiCaprio
Linking Aid Effectiveness to Development Outcomes: A Priority for Busan
Tony Addison and Lucy Scott
Inequality in Latin America: Two New WIDER Working Papers
Annett Victorero
Resilient People, Fragile Governance: The Success of Bangladesh so Far (Part I)
Lucy Scott
What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part II)
Tony Addison
WIDER Angle October 2011
From the Editor's desk
Tony Addison
On Aid and Growth: Reflections ahead of Busan
Finn Tarp
Perspectives for Busan: from ReCom
Tony Addison, Lucy Scott, and Annett Victorero
Foreign Aid and Democratization in Africa
Danielle Resnick
Urbanization and Development – The Big Questions
Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen
Rules or Engagement? Development Implications of the Doha Round Negotiation - Part 1
Alisa DiCaprio
What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? - Part 1
Tony Addison
WIDER Angle September 2011
The View from Buenos Aires
Tony Addison
Africa's Youth: A New Vanguard for Democracy?
Danielle Resnick
Understanding Life in Poverty
Milla Nyyssölä
Beyond the Urban Tipping Point
Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur
Climate Change Adds to Risks in North Africa
Imed Drine
Reversing Inequality in Latin America
Annett Victorero
WIDER Angle August 2011
Animal Spirits
Tony Addison
Introducing Carbon Taxes in South Africa
James Thurlow
WIDER Angle June-July 2011
Surprises Ahead?
Tony Addison
UNU-WIDER and AERC launch an online course on Climate Change
Alyssa McCluskey, Channing Arndt, and Innocent Matshe
WIDER Angle May 2011
Who Captures Value in Global Supply Chains? The Case of Nokia's N95 Smartphone
Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Petri Rouvinen, Timo Seppälä, Pekka Ylä-Anttila
WIDER Angle April 2011
A Commentary on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (ed. Wim Naudé)
Robert J. Strom
WIDER Angle March 2011
The Entrepreneurship-Innovation Nexus in Development
Wim Naudé and Adam Szirmai
WIDER Angle February 2011
The West is finding it harder to get its own way in the world
Ian Morris
WIDER Angle January 2011
Agricultural Policy in Africa: Understanding Decision-Making and Implementation
Danielle Resnick and Regina Birner
WIDER Angle Articles 2009-2010
WIDER Angle November/December 2010
- The Rise of Large Farms: Drivers and Development Outcomes
Derek Byerlee and Klaus Deininger
WIDER Angle October 2010
- China and India’s Development Strategies: Lessons for Developing Countries
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan - Poverty, Entrepreneurship, and Development
Ha-Joon Chang
WIDER Angle September 2010
- Experimentation and Co-ordination as Industrial Policy: Examples from Ethiopia and Chile
Mulu Gebreeyesus and Michiko Iizuka
WIDER Angle August 2010
- Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Maria Minniti and Wim Naudé
WIDER Angle July 2010
- The Challenge of Small Island Developing States
Wim Naudé, Mark McGillivray and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
WIDER Angle June 2010
- The Triple Crisis: What Development Prospects for Africa?
Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet - The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin America and Africa
Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke
WIDER Angle May 2010
- The Triple Crisis: Finance, Food and Climate Change
Tony Addison and Finn Tarp - Do the Awakening Giants Have Feet of Clay?
Pranab Bardhan
WIDER Angle April 2010
- Are African Countries Paying Too Much Attention To Agriculture?
Luc Christiaensen and Lionel Demery
WIDER Angle March 2010
WIDER Angle February 2010
- 'La tè tranble nan peyi d'Ayiti': The Earth Trembles in Haiti
Evans Jadotte - Density and Disasters: Economics of Urban Hazard Risk
Somik V. Lall and Uwe Deichmann
WIDER Angle January 2010
Industrial Policy and Environmental Sustainability: The Challenge After COP15
Wim Naudé and Ludovico Alcorta
Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall : The Travails of East Germany’s Economic Transition
Charles S. Maier
Conflict and Entrepreneurship in Afghanistan
Tommaso Ciarli, Saeed Parto and Maria Savona
Entrepreneurship in Iraq: Understanding the Constraints
Sameeksha Desai
What Can Developing Countries Learn From Finland’s Industrial Transformation?
Markus Jäntti and Juhana Vartiainen
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development: Lessons from Finland
Otto Toivanen
UNU-WIDER: More Needed Than Ever
Finn Tarp.
Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Wim Naudé, Amelia Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray
- 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
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
Entrepreneurship, Sovereignty, and Violent Social Conflict
Jurgen Brauer and Robert Haywood
Is Manufacturing Still the Main Engine of Growth in Developing Countries ?
Adam Szirmai
- 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
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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