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Extractive industries and development - What’s in the UNU-WIDER research pipeline?
The recent anti-corruption summit in London highlighted a much-publicized issue in development—transparency is crucial in the minerals sector...
Economic development Mineral industries Natural resourcesBlog
Can extractive industries promote development?
I spent the last couple of days at a fascinating workshop at UNU-WIDER on the role of extractive industries in development ...
Economic development Mineral industries Natural resourcesWorking Paper
Political economy of Nigerian power sector reformThe Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010...
Political science Economic power PrivatizationBook Chapter
An Empirical Analysis of the Economics of Marriage in Egypt, Morocco, and TunisiaFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2. Marriage is the single most important contractual arrangement youth in North Africa undertake as they navigate their transition to adulthood...
Families Game theory Economic powerWorking Paper
Cambodia’s Land Management and Administration ProjectThis paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project...
Agriculture Land tenure Laws and legislation (Land use)Working Paper
The Economics of Marriage in North AfricaMarriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world...
Families Game theory Economic powerWorking Paper
Does Successful Governance Require Heroes? The Case of Sergio Fajardo and the City of Medellín: A Reform Case for InstructionThe city of Medellín, Colombia was a cauldron of violence with 185 homicides per 100,000 people in 2002. By 2006, this rate had declined to 32.5...
Government employees Political science Economic powerWorking Paper
Transfers for Extreme Poverty Reduction: Implications for Patron-Client Relationships in the Context of Bangladesh’s Agricultural ReformationThis paper investigates how a development intervention which targets extremely poor households with investment capital influences relationships between those households and the landowning elite...
Agriculture Poverty Economic powerBlog
Female Empowerment and Extreme Poverty Reduction: Progressing On One without the Other?
Lucy Scott Women are increasingly seen as an important part of the international development agenda...
Households Investments PovertyBlog
Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Malokele Nanivazo Sexual violence crime (SV) in wartime is not a new phenomenon. Mass rapes have occurred in armed conflicts in Rwanda, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, to give just a few examples...
Crime Education Humanitarian assistanceBook Chapter
Elites and Institutional PersistenceFrom the book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Elite (Social sciences) Institutional economics Political scienceWorking Paper
Elites and Institutional PersistenceParticular sets of institutions, once they become established in a society, have a strong tendency to persist. In this paper I argue that understanding how elites form and reproduce is key to understanding the persistence of institutions over time...
Elite (Social sciences) Institutional economics Political scienceBook Chapter
Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: How Can the Concept of Social Contract Help Us in Understanding How to Make Peace Work?From the book: Making Peace Work
Conflict management Justice, Administration of Economic powerBook Chapter
International Organizations as a Profession: Professional Mobility and Power DistributionFrom the book: The International Mobility of Talent
Elite (Social sciences) International agencies Labour mobilityBook Chapter
Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for SecurityFrom the book: Advancing Development
Conflict management Economic development National securityBook Chapter
Women's Status and Children's Food Security in PakistanFrom the book: Food Security
Children Equality and inequality Food security