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Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development: Insights from development studiesThis paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike...
Resilience Sustainable development Development policyWorking Paper
The COVID-19 pandemic and the economy in Southern AfricaThe COVID-19 pandemic has had severe economic consequences in Southern Africa, resulting in an unprecedented decline in production and employment...
Southern Africa COVID-19 Economic policyWorking Paper
Ethnicity is not public service destiny: The political logic of service distribution in South AfricaMillions of South Africans in thousands of demonstrations have protested the unequal allocation of public services...
Public service delivery Ethnicity AfricaJournal Article
Bypassing Government: Aid Effectiveness and Malawi’s Local Development FundPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness Institutions Aid policyWorking Paper
Institutional bypass and aid effectiveness in AfricaMany practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize a more active inv...
Aid effectiveness Institutions Aid policyBlog
Taking steps to overcome inequality in South Africa
Engagement is needed at all levels to address ongoing inequality faced in South Africa. This was the primary aim of a recent policy seminar in Pretoria, organized through the framework of the Mandela Initiative and partners, including UNU-WIDER...
Inequality Development policy Structural transformationPresentation
The root causes of large scale forced migrationDirector Finn Tarp made a contribution on international migration in a policy seminar hosted by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
Project
Development policy and practice: competing paradigms and approachesTheme: Transformation
This project uses UNU-WIDER’s high level of convening power – its ability to mobilize senior figures in the development policy debate from different paradigms – and its ability to stand aside from the fashions and pressures of the...
Development Aid Development policy