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Agriculture Adaptation OptionsConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 5.3
Natural disasters Financial crisis AgricultureBlog
Beyond the Crisis of the African University - Why Institutions Matter
I recently returned from a week at the University of Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, speaking at a conference honouring Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu who had been Chancellor of the university for 25 years—and had helped to encourage and defen...
Education, Higher Expenditures, Public Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Journal Article
Aid Supplies Over Time: Addressing Heterogeneity, Trends, and DynamicsPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial crisisPresentation
Lessons from ReCom in a post-2015 perspectiveReCom (Research and Communication on Foreign Aid) occupied a key role in UNU-WIDER’s 2010-13 work programme addressing the triple crisis: Finance, Food and Climate Change. Some 240 ReCom studies were prepared during a period of 3-years by...
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Financial Reforms and Falling Inequality in Latin America, 2002-2012: Are They Connected?
29 October 2014 Giovanni Andrea Cornia For the last quarter of the twentieth century, Latin America suffered from low growth, rising inequality, and frequent financial crises; i.e., currency, sovereign debt, and banking crises...
Equality and inequality Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Finance, PublicBlog
Rising Inequality – How to Reverse It?30 October 2014 Dominik Etienne and Annett Victorero The last decade has witnessed a revival of concern over the impact of high-income concentration on economic development and wellbeing...
Economic development Economic growth Economic policyBlog
Economic Elites, Crises, and Austerity in 21st Century Capitalism
24 September 2014 Andrés Solimano The era of neoliberal capitalism starting by the late 1970s and early 1980s promotes free trade, capital mobility, fragmented migration, privatization, deregulation and marketization...
Capitalism Democracy Economic policyWorking Paper
South African Labour Market Transitions During the Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Micro-Level EvidenceThis paper studies individual-level labour market transitions and their determinants in South Africa during the zenith and aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis using 2008 to 2010-2011 panel data from the National Income Dynamics Stud...
Econometric models (Economic development) Financial crisis Labor marketNews
TWFR Article: Falling Inequality in Latin America - Policy Changes and lessonsThe World Financial Review featured the article Inequality Trends and Their Determinants: Latin America over the Period 1990–2010 based on the UNU-WIDER research project The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Evidence from...
Inequality Financial crisis Economic growthJournal Article
Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Development: Whither Africa?The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at an inopportune time for Africa. Economic growth had recovered, poverty had declined, and human development had improved. Then the crisis hit. Growth then fell by 60 per cent...
Economic development Financial crisis PovertyBlog
UNU-WIDER Interview with Dr Kaushik Basu29 November 2012 Carl-Gustav Lindén In November 2012 UNU-WIDER had the pleasure of hosting a public event with Dr Kaushik Basu, the newly appointed Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics of the World Bank...
Financial crisis International finance MacroeconomicsBlog
Reflecting Change: The Second Edition of ‘From Poverty to Power’
Duncan Green Updating a book on contemporary events can be unnerving. In the intervening years, events and new thinking combine to expose the weaknesses of any text...
Democracy Ecology Economic developmentResearch Brief
The Supply Side of AidIn the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 interest in the supply side of the donor equation has been rekindled...
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial crisisResearch Brief
The Global Triple Crises – Finance, Environment and FoodThree global crises -finance, environment and food The global economy is currently facing three crises which threaten to undermine the welfare and prosperity of present and future generations...
Climatic changes Financial crisis Food industry and tradeResearch Brief
How Aid Supplies from Donor Countries Respond to Economic CrisisThe strong interdependent relationship between the developed and developing countries made itself visible again with the recent economic downturn...
Econometric models (Finance) Budget Economic assistance and foreign aid