JUNE-JULY 2011
FEATURE ARTICLES
Surprises ahead?
Tony Addison. Full article.
UNU-WIDER and AERC launch an online course on Climate Change
Alyssa McCluskey, Channing Arndt, and Innocent Matshe
Full article

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Local Recruitment: UNU-WIDER, Helsinki Finland.
Administrative Assistant : Closing Date extended to:
29 July 2011
Visiting Scholar and Internship Programmes accepting applications. Please visit our Opportunities section to learn more about our Visiting Scholar and Internship Programmes. The application deadline is 30 September 2011.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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
AERC and UNU-WIDER Conference: Macro-economic Management of Foreign Aid
24 November 2011
RECENT EVENTS
Project activity: UNU-WIDER in collaboration with the African Economics Research Consortium (AERC). A one week course on the 'Economics of Climate Change' in Cape Town, South Africa
25 June 2011
Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2011 (NCDE11), Copenhagen, Denmark
20 June 2011
Aid – Working for Development: Policy Seminar, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark
17 June 2011
Guest lecturer: Finn Tarp presents 'Aid, Growth, and Development: Have we come full circle?', Bonn, Germany
7 June 2011
Exhibition: Maailma Kylässä - World Village Festival
28 May 2011
Project meeting: Learning to Compete: Accelerating Industrial Development in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
27 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
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
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals
Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011) Special Issue: Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries
Guest Editors Tilman Brück, Wim Naudé, and Philip Verwimp
Economic Change and Restructuring Vol. 44 No. 1-2 (2011) Double UNU-WIDER Special Issue: Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
Guest Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan

WIDER Annual Lecture 14: Reforming the International Monetary System
José Antonio Ocampo
UNU Policy Brief Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai and Micheline Goedhuys
WIDER Working Papers 2011
African Evidence from Panel Vector Autoregressive Framework
Boopen Seetanah, Kessevan Padachi, and Sawkut Rojid WP/33
Climate Change Compounding Risks in North Africa
Imed Drine
WP/32
Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004
Pranab Bardhana, Michael Lucab, Dilip Mookherjeeb, and Francisco Pino
WP/31
Transformation of the Family under Rising Land Pressure: A Theoretical Essay
Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau
WP/30
Trees, Tenure and Conflict: Rubber in Colonial Benin
James Fenske
WP/29
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
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