AUGUST 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

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

10 August 2009 - Call for Papers: UNU-WIDER Project Conference on 'African Development: Myths and Realities'. Accra, Ghana: 10-11 December 2009. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2009. See news.

9 June 2009 - Call for Papers: UNU-WIDER and UNU-CRIS 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

The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America
Marco V. Sánchez and Rob Vos. Full article.

Aligning Elites with Development
Alice Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, and James Robinson. Full article.

Getting Serious About Food
Luc Christiaensen. 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.

Book

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

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 showcases 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 to download from our website.

DP2009/03 The Global Economic Crisis: Towards Syndrome-Free Recovery for Africa
Augustin Fosu and Wim Naudé 

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

RP2009/41 Designing Composite Entrepreneurship Indicators: An Application Using Consensus PCA
Diego B. Avanzini

RP2009/40 Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success
James A. Robinson

RP2009/39 When to Start a New Firm?: Modelling the Timing of Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs
Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

RP2009/37 Three Decades of Neoliberal Economics in Chile: Achievements, Failures and Dilemmas
Andrés Solimano

RP2009/36 The Mauritian Success Story and its Lessons
Arvind Subramanian

RP2009/16 Early International Entrepreneurship in China: Extent and Determinants
Wim Naudé and Stephanié Rossouw