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Development challenges in Africa in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
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What does COVID-19 mean for Africa?: Challenges, but also opportunitiesThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to an exceptional social and economic crisis all over the world, with Africa among the hardest-hit regions. What are the most acute challenges facing the continent during and after the pandemic?...
COVID-19 Africa Africa's Economic DevelopmentSeminar
WeiWei Chen on the political economy of Chinese private investment in EthiopiaWeiWei Chen will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 20 November 2019. Abstract - The political economy of Chinese private investment in Ethiopia: a case study of Eastern Industry Park Conventional wisdom sees a large role for Chinese state-owned...
Lecture
MOOC: Industrial policy for the 21st century – the challenge for Africa
Learning
Industrial Policy in the 21st Century – the Challenge for Africa
Learning Industrialization Africa's Economic Development Workshop
Workshop – The National Treasury and UNU-WIDER
Policy seminar
Sida Development Talks - Africa rising? Poverty and growth in Sub-Saharan AfricaOn 22 April 2016 UNU-WIDER visits the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency to launch the new open access book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Resulting from UNU-WIDER’s project on ’Reconciling Africa’s growth, poverty and...
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New open access book - Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan AfricaOn 14 April 2016 Oxford University Press (OUP) published UNU-WIDER’s first open access book, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Channing Arndt, Andy McKay, and Finn Tarp.
Growth Growth and employment PovertyBlog
Environmental change and economic development in Africa
The MIT Global Change Forum has gained an international reputation for serious, frank, and informed discussion of global climate change...
Africa's Economic Development Climate change Sustainable energyPanel discussion
Economic and political dynamics of Africa's emerging middle classEconomic and political dynamics of Africa's emerging middle class Robust economic growth in much of sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade is largely believed to have coincided with an expanding middle class. According to some estimates, the...
Presentation
Aid to Africa and the Changing ContextPeking University National School of Development, UNU-WIDER, African Development Bank and World Bank meeting of contributors to the Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Beijing, China. Presented by Finn Tarp , Director of UNU-WIDER. Presentation
Seminar
Oxford Handbook of Africa and EconomicsPeking University National School of Development, UNU-WIDER, African Development Bank and World Bank meeting of contributors to the Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics.
Project meeting
Africa's Emerging Middle-Class as a side event at the African Studies Association ConferenceAfrica's Emerging Middles Class project meeting was held as a side event at the African Studies Association Conference...
Presentation
Climate change and economic development in AfricaAfrica: Climate Change and Economic Development Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa is the theme of the 38th plenary session of the African Economic Research Consortium’s (AERC) Biannual Research Workshop 2013.The session will...
Seminar
African economic growth: Productivity, policy syndromes and the importance of institutionsSpeaker Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER. Recent evidence from an exhaustive political-economy study of growth of African economies – the Growth Project of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) - suggests that...
Project
African development - myths and realitiesTheme: 2008-09
Existing research on Africa has produced a seemingly endless list of reasons why African growth and poverty reduction record has lagged behind that of other regions of the developing world. This project looks at the reasons put forward for Africa...
Africa's Economic Development African development Public policy