JULY 2009

We have pleasure in announcing news of events, activities, commentaries and publications by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER).

EVENTS

Recent

25 June 2009 Recovering from the Global Crisis: Towards an Action Plan for Africa and the Least Developed Countries. A Side Event at the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development

12 June 2009 WIDER Conference on The Role of Elites in Economic Development. See the photo gallery.

Forthcoming

18 September 2009 WIDER Conference on Reflections on Transition: Twenty Years After The Fall of The Berlin Wall

22 October 2009 UNU-WIDER, UNU-MERIT and UNIDO International Workshop on Pathways to Industrialization in the 21st Century: New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms -   Note: This workshop has been rescheduled to be held 22-23 October, 2009 at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht.

5 November 2009 UNU-WIDER and UNU-CRIS International Workshop on South-South and North-South Trade Agreements: Compatibility Issues, Bruges, Belgium.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

9 June 2009 - Call for Papers: UNU-CRIS and UNU-WIDER International Workshop on South-South and North-South Trade Agreements: Compatibility Issues. The deadline for submissions is 01 September 2009. See events.

16 June 2009 - Visiting scholars and PhD internship programmes closing date is 30 September 2009. For more information, see Opportunities.

FEATURE ARTICLES

Private Military Companies from Renaissance Italy to Modern Day Afghanistan
Jurgen Brauer. Full article.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Information on all of WIDER’s past and present publications is available on our website at http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/

Please order from your bookseller, library, or the publishers.

Forthcoming Book

Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Edited by Wim Naudé,
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
and Mark McGillivray

Forthcoming Publication date:
August 2009, The UNU Press

More than a billion people live in extreme poverty. Many face the risk of never escaping from poverty. These risks are exacerbated by natural hazards, ill-health, and macroeconomic volatility. Consequently, vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. Despite this there is a need to better understand vulnerability, particularly in developing countries where people do not have the same bulwarks against risks. This volume addresses this need by pulling together essays from leading scholars in the field. It focuses on critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries such as the relationship between poverty and vulnerability, and vulnerability arising from ill-health and external shocks. Reflecting the multi-dimensionality of vulnerability, it show cases a variety of methodologies, which offer new perspectives on the use and relevance of the notion of vulnerability in economic development. 

New Research Papers

The following titles are available free of charge to download from our website.

RP2009/42 Country Role Models for Development Success: The Ghana Case
Augustin Kwasi Fosu