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Economic reform
Working Paper
Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protection

We conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms...

Political economy Social protection Transfer payments
Project
Towards inclusive development in Myanmar

Theme: Transformation

Inclusive growth Economic reform Industrial policy
Conference
UNU-WIDER International Development Conference in collaboration with the Central Institute of Economic Management (CIEM): Institutional Reforms for Transformation, Inclusion, and Sustainability

Economic transformation, inclusive growth, and environmental sustainability are core 21st century development challenges in both low- and middle-income countries. Every country has its own institutional history with an evolving balance between the...

29 June 2014 – 30 June 2014
Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), 68 Phan Đình Phùng, Quận Ba Đình, Hanoi, Vietnam
Past event
Network Angle: News from our Network

In the news this month, Kaushik Basu was appointed Chief Economist of the World Bank. Justin Yifu Lin founder and first director of the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) and Tilman Brück to Lead SIPRI in Stockholm The recent...

Globalization Labour Poverty
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 1 - The New Institutional Economics and its contribution to improving our understanding of the transition problem

Although a growing number of emerging democracies and other systems are turning to free market policies to spur their economic growth, many of them are finding that these policies are not always successful.

7 March 1997
Assembly House of the Estates (Säätytalo), Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki, Finland
Past event
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