MAY 2010
FEATURE ARTICLES AND HIGHLIGHTS
The Triple Crisis: Finance, Food and Climate Change
Tony Addison and Finn Tarp. Full article.
Do the Awakening Giants Have Feet of Clay?
Pranab Bardhan. Full article.
The Triple Crisis Panel from left to right: Amar Bhattacharya (G24), Shenggen Fan (IFPRI), William Lyakurwa (AERC), and Jomo K. Sundaram (UN DESA).
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Responding to The Triple Crisis: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Structural Change: UNU-WIDER organized session at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), Stockholm, Sweden
31 May 2010
The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Perspective, with Luc Christiaensen. New York, USA
2 June 2010
Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE), Helsinki, Finland
18-19 June 2010
Global Crises and Entrepreneurial Incentives with Wim Naudé. New York, USA
24 June 2010
RECENT EVENTS
Climate Change Uncertainty and Adaptation Policy, Bergen, Norway
10 May 2010
Book Launch: The Poor Under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Helsinki, Finland
12 May 2010
UNU-WIDER 25th Anniversary Conference: The Triple Crisis – Finance, Food and Climate Change, Helsinki, Finland
13-15 May 2010
Aid, Growth, and Development by Finn Tarp, Director of UNU-WIDER, Bergen, Norway
19 May 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals
World Development Special Issue: Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America (forthcoming)
Guest Editors Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/books-and-journals/2010/en_GB/wd38_6/
The Poor Under Globalization in Asia, Latin America and Africa
Edited by Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/books-and-journals/2010/en_GB/poor-under-globalization-asia/
Southern Engines of Global Growth
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/books-and-journals/2010/en_GB/Southern-Engines-of-Global-Growth/
UNU-WIDER Special Issue on Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray and Wim Naudé
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/books-and-journals/2010/en_GB/JDS/_print/
WIDER Working Papers
Into the Void: Governing Finance in Central and Eastern Europe
Katharina Pistor WP/65
Moderating Urbanization and Managing Growth: How Can Colombo Prevent the Emerging Chaos?
Ranjith Dayaratne WP/64
The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism
Iván Szelényi WP/63
Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Houshold Survey Data, 1990-2005
Branko Milanovic and Lire Ersado WP/62
The Excluded Poor: How Targeting Has Left out the Poor in Peripheral Cities in the Philippines
Michael P. Canares WP/61
The Travails of Unification: East Germany's Economic Transition since 1989
Charles S. Maier WP/60
Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still Kicking: the Case of Russia
Gur Ofer WP/59
Fiscal Decentralization and Urbanization in Indonesia
Margherita Comola and Luiz de Mello WP/58
Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis
Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé WP/57
Women and Landed Property in Urban India: Negotiating Closed Doors and Windows of Opportunity
Bipasha Baruah WP/56
Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Collective Violence: Assessing Spatial Variations in Anti-Chinese Rioting within Jakarta during the May 1998 Riots
Suranjan Weeraratne WP/55
Entrepreneurship and the National System of Innovation: What is Missing in Turkey?
Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau WP/54
Central Asia after Two Decades of Independence
Richard Pomfret WP/53
Foreign Banks and Credit Volatility: The Case of Latin American Countries Meriem Haouat, Diego Nicolas Moccero, and Ramiro Sosa Navarro WP/52
The Challenges of Global Environmental Change for Urban Africa
David Simon WP/51
The Tangled Web of Associational Life
Kate Meagher WP/50
Passage, Profit, Protection and the Challenge of Participation
Loren B. Landau WP/49
Is There Such a Thing as a Post-Apartheid City?
Bill Freund WP/48
Concepts and Operationalization of Pro-Poor Growth
Mario Negre WP/47
The Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent and Destructive Entrepreneurship
Mark Sanders and Utz Weitzel WP/46
Urban Development Transitions and their Implications for Poverty Reduction and Policy Planning in Uganda
Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Hannington Sengendo, Shuaib Lwasa WP/45
A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi Eleonora Nillesen and Philip Verwimp WP/44
Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria
T. P. Ogun WP/43
Cityness and African Urban Development
Edgar Pieterse WP/42
Transition in Southeast Europe: Understanding Economic Development and Institutional Change
Milica Uvalic WP/41
The Great Transformation 1989-2029: Could It Have Been Better? Will It Be Better?
Grzegorz W. Kolodko WP/40
Identity and Space on the Borderland between Old and New in Shanghai: A Case Study
Deljana Iossifova WP/39
Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition
László Bruszt, Nauro F. Campos, Jan Fidrmuc, and Gérard Roland WP/38
UNU Policy Briefs
Linking Globalization to Poverty in Asia, Latin America and Africa
Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke 03/2010
Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Policy Challenges
Wim Naudé 04/2010
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
