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Migration and mobility – new frontiers for research and policy

WIDER Development Conference jointly organized with ARUA, 5-6 October 2017, in Accra, Ghana
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Public economics for development

This WIDER Development Conference focuses on the lessons from modern public and development economics which can guide policy makers to reform tax and public provision systems.

Tax and development - What can we learn from the Finnish experience?

This seminar, held on July 7 in Maputo, will examine the relevance of the Finnish development experience from the Mozambican perspective.

Policy brief: Tracking rural households through structural transformation

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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries

This new Open Access book provides detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys that have been ongoing for more than three decades.
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Support policies for renewables: Instrument choice and instrument change from a Public Choice perspective

This paper frames the transition towards clean energies as a sequential process of instrument choice and instrument change. First, regulators decide how to initiate the transition away from fossil energies...

Environmental policy Management Renewable energy sources
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Extractives for development (E4D)

Theme: Transformation

Wealth Natural resources Management
Working Paper
Overcoming the Limits of Institutional Reform in Uganda

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa...

Administrative law Government accountability Institutional economics
Working Paper
Risk Experiments in Gains and Losses: A Case Study for Benin

The aim of this paper is to expand our knowledge on risk aversion among the poor by conducting experiments that do not only test risk aversion in small and large stakes but also in risky gains and risky losses...

Households Management Poor
Blog
The Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance
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by Laixiang Sun There is a widespread belief that the only efficient ownership structure for a market economy is one in which firms are owned by private investors and that the existence of well-defined personalized property rights is a basic precondi...

Business enterprises Employee ownership Management
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Analysis and Management of Watersheds

From the book: The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Conservation of natural resources Management Water
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The Management of Drylands

From the book: The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Institutional economics Land use Management
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