APRIL 2011
FEATURE ARTICLE
A Commentary on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (ed. Wim Naudé)
Robert J. Strom. Full article.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for Papers: AERC/UNU-WIDER Research Project
The Macro-Economic Management of Foreign Aid
Deadline: 15 June 2011 Read more
Call for Papers: Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2011 (NCDE11), Copenhagen, Denmark
Deadline: 1 May 2011 Read more
UPCOMING EVENTS
WIDER Annual Lecture 15: New Structural Economics, by Justin Yifu Lin, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist of The World Bank. To be held in Maputo, Mozambique
4 May 2011
Open session: A further interrogation of the evolution of real household consumption for Tanzania.
Held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 6 May 2011
Project meeting: Learning to Compete: Accelerating Industrial Development in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
27 May 2011
Exhibition: Maailma Kylässä - World Village Festival
28 May 2011
Call for Papers: Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2011 (NCDE11), Copenhagen, Denmark
20 June 2011
Project meeting: Decentralization and Urban Service Delivery: Implications for Foreign Aid 11 July 2011
Project meeting: Foreign Aid and Democracy
15 August 2011
Project meeting: The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Evidence from the Last Decade and Prospects fro the Future, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1 September 2011
UNU-WIDER Conference on Poverty and Behavioural Economics 1 September 2011
RECENT EVENTS
Group visit by students of Estonian School of Diplomacy
13 April 2011
Finnish Development Days, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department of Development Policy, Helsinki, Finland
22 March 2011
Public lecture: Climate Change and Economic Development, Tampere, Finland 22 March 2011
The Impact of Aid – What is the impact of aid on economic development, recipient governments and donors themselves? Stockholm, Sweden
9 March 2011
Group visit by students of Helsinki University's Faculty of Social Sciences
3 March 2011
Public lecture: Aid, Growth and Development, Tampere, Finland
1 March 2011
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Edited by Wim Naudé
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development (forthcoming)
Edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Micheline Goedhuys
Health Inequality and Development
Edited by Mark McGillivray, Indranil Dutta and David Lawson
Understanding Small-Island Developing States: Fragility and External Shocks
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray
and Wim Naudé
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
Terms of Trade and Growth of Resource Economies: A Tale of Two Countries
Augustin Kwasi Fosu WP/28
How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Julius A. Agbor WP/27
Local Government, Taxes, and Guns: Successful Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities
Francisco Gutiérrez S., María Teresa Gutiérrez, Tania Guzmán, Juan Carlos Arenas, and María Teresa Pinto WP/26
Adaptation Advantage to Climate Change Impacts on Road Infra-structure in Africa through 2100
Paul Chinowsky, Amy Schweikert, Niko Strzepek, Kyle Manahan, Kenneth Strzepek, and C. Adam Schlosser WP/25
Challenges for Latin American Cities
Paola Jirón WP/24
Public-Private Co-operation for Gas Provision in Poor Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires
Cynthia Goytia, Ricardo Pasquini, and Pablo Sanguinetti WP/23
Aid and Growth: What Meta-Analysis Reveals
Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha and Finn Tarp WP/22
Is Internal Migration Bad for Receiving Urban Centres? Céline Ferré
WP/21Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
