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This project seeks to increase understanding among policymakers, academics and practitioners of how institutional dynamics that develop during violent conflicts shape state-building and economic development trajectories in the long run. More

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NEW OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Inequality in the Developing World

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. This book contributes to this important discussion by presenting assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars. Read more

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The new database provides crucial information on changes in the economic structure of economies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Preliminary findings suggest a trend reversal in many developing countries towards industrialization. Read more

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Research and policy briefs

Evidence-based policymaking is crucial. Use our publications search to browse nearly 200 briefs which highlight the findings and policy implications of our research.

348 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

A 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 Macroeconomics

Working Paper

Understanding the boom: Country study—Tanzania

There 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 resources

Book Chapter

The macroeconomic management of natural resources

From the book: Extractive Industries

Macroeconomics Mining Natural resource management

Working Paper

Stock-and-flow-consistent macroeconomic model for South Africa

We 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 equilibrium

Policy Brief

Aid is not dead: The latest evidence on the effectiveness of ODA Foreign aid Macroeconomics Tax revenue

Book Chapter

Global monetary co-operation and the exchange rate system

From the book: Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

Financial institutions International Foreign exchange

Book

Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

This 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 exchange