JANUARY 2011
FEATURE ARTICLE
Agricultural Policy in Africa: Understanding Decision-Making and Implementation
Danielle Resnick and Regina Birner. Full article.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) ranked among the world's top-ten International Development Think Tanks, according to the 2010 Global Go-To Think Tank Ranking report. 24 January 2011
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sustainable Development in a Period of Climate Change
Copenhagen, Denmark 31 January 2011
Book Launch: Book Launch: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Palgrave Macmillan), Edited by Wim Naudé 24 February 2011
RECENT EVENTS
'2010' The Global Go-To Think Tanks Index, United Nations University in New York, USA 18 January 2011
Workshop: Challenges for Development Research: Decentralisation, the Transfer of Land, Impact Assessment and Design of Development Programmes, Institutional Failures, and using Agriculture for Development
Hanoi, Vietnam 6 January 2011
Project Meeting: Land Inequality, Conflict and Reform in LDCs
Hanoi, Vietnam 3 January 2011
Workshop: jointly hosted by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNU-WIDER
Green Growth in Development
Helsinki, Finland 15 December 2010
UNU-WIDER Annual Lecture 14 on Reforming the International Monetary Financial Architecture, by José Antonio Ocampo, Professor in the Professional Practice of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs
New York, USA 9 December 2010
Project meeting: The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Evidence from the Last Decade and Prospects for the Future New York, USA 7 December 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals
Understanding Small-Island Developing States: Fragility and External Shocks
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray
and Wim Naudé
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Edited by Wim Naudé
Health Inequality and Development
Edited by Mark McGillivray, Indranil Dutta and David Lawson
Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
WIDER Working Papers 2011
Aid Supplies Over Time: Accounting for Heterogeneity, Trends, and Dynamics
Sam Jones WP/04
Sensitivity of Loan Size to Lending Rates: Evidence from Ghana’s Microfinance Sector
Samuel Kobina Annim WP/03
Thailand’s Development Strategy and Growth Performance
Peter Warr WP/02
Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence
Augustin Kwasi Fosu WP/01
WIDER Working Papers 2010
Transfers and Development: Easy Come, Easy Go?
Luc Christiaensen and Lei Pan WP/125
The Global Financial Crisis and Development: Whither Africa?
Augustin Kwasi Fosu WP/124
Efficiency Frontier and Matching Process on the Labour Market: Evidence from Tunisia
Anis Bou Abid and Imed Drine WP/123
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
