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Want to catch up on UNU-WIDER research? Here are 10 of the most interesting papers published over the last year
In this blog, the managing editor of the WIDER Angle shares his personal view on some of the most important —and potentially overlooked— work recently released in the WIDER Working Paper Series...
Inequality Macroeconomics IndonesiaWorking Paper
The macroeconomic effect of fiscal policy in South Africa: A narrative analysisThis paper analyses the macroeconomic effect of legislated personal income tax changes in South Africa over the 1996–2019 period...
Personal income tax Structural VAR Instrumental variableSeminar
Arkebe Oqubay on the economic implications of COVID-19 crisis for developing countries
Working Paper
A macro–micro analysis of gender segregation and job quality in Latin AmericaLatin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality...
Gender equality Latin America MacroeconomicsBook Chapter
Gas in Tanzania: Adapting to new realitiesFrom the book: Mining for Change
Developing countries Institutions MacroeconomicsBook Chapter
Understanding the boomFrom the book: Mining for Change
Developing countries Institutions MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Understanding the boom: A framing paperA significant natural resource discovery creates excited popular expectations of imminent wealth. But the size of a boom is usually overestimated and the delay in receiving revenues is underestimated...
Developing countries Institutions MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
Understanding the boom: Country study—TanzaniaThere are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas...
Developing countries Institutions Natural resourcesBook Chapter
The macroeconomic management of natural resourcesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Macroeconomics Mining Natural resource managementWorking Paper
Stock-and-flow-consistent macroeconomic model for South AfricaWe develop a stock-and-flow-consistent model for South Africa with four financial instruments and detailed balance sheets for the household, government, financial, non-financial, and foreign sectors and the Reserve Bank...
Stock and flow Macroeconomics Computable general equilibriumPolicy Brief
Book Chapter
Global monetary co-operation and the exchange rate systemFrom the book: Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
Financial institutions International Foreign exchangeBook
Resetting the International Monetary (Non)SystemThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Macroeconomics Financial institutions, International Foreign exchangeJournal Article
Aid, the Real Exchange Rate and Why Policy Matters: The Cases of Morocco and TunisiaPart of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
Macroeconomics Foreign aidJournal Article
The Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Aid and Macroeconomic Transmission Mechanisms in Tanzania and GhanaPart of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
Macroeconomics Foreign aidJournal Article
Does Conditionality Mitigate the Potential Negative Effect of Aid on Revenues?Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
Macroeconomics Foreign aid