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How can developing countries pay for the SDGs?With official development assistance under strain, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require developing countries to rely increasingly on their own resources...
SDGs Millennium Development Goals Official development assistanceVideo
WIDER Annual Lecture by C. Peter TimmerView the WIDER Annual Lecture on Managing structural transformation post-2015.
Structural transformation Income distribution Millennium Development GoalsAbout
Presentation - AL18The WIDER Annual Lecture 18 was delivered on 18 November at the UN Headquarters in New York. The lecture, given by Professor Emeritus C. Peter Timmer of Harvard University, focused on the topic of structural transformation, especially within the...
Structural transformation Income distribution Millennium Development GoalsAbout
Photos - AL18Selection of images from the WIDER Annual Lecture 18.
Structural transformation Income distribution Millennium Development GoalsAbout
Contributors - AL18Short biographies of those who contributed to the event.
Structural transformation Income distribution Millennium Development GoalsJournal Article
Impact of Aid and Public Spending—A Macro–micro FrameworkPart of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development
Economic assistance and foreign aid Millennium Development GoalsJournal Article
Aid, social policy and developmentPart of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development
Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial institutions, International Millennium Development GoalsJournal Special Issue
Aid, Social Policy and DevelopmentThe UNU-WIDER Special Issue aims to address collectively the following questions: (1) What are the principles and facts that have underpinned the evolution of bilateral and multilateral social sector aid over the past 25 years?...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Millennium Development Goals Sustainable developmentBlog
Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen on the Sustainable Development Goals
World leaders are now meeting at a special UN summit from 25–27 September to formally adopt the SDGs, which will then be implemented from 1 January 2016...
Democracy Economic development Human rightsWorking Paper
Aid, Social Policy, and DevelopmentThis paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development...
Economic assistance and foreign aid International agencies Millennium Development GoalsWorking Paper
Lessons for Japanese Foreign Aid from Research on Aid’s ImpactJapan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a country that saw meteoric development of its own, and as a country that has been one of the world’s largest donors for decades...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Infrastructure (Economics) Millennium Development GoalsBlog
The Future of Development – Aid and Beyond
Just over a year ago, in March 2014, UNU-WIDER published a report entitled: What do we know about aid as we approach 2015?...
Biodiversity conservation Children Climate changeBlog
Why Ending Malnutrition is a Quintessential 21st Century Development Goal
In the run up to the announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) in September every development issue is clamouring for attention...
Climate change Environment Equality and inequalityBlog
How to Achieve Structural Transformation in Developing Economies? — An Interview with C. Peter Timmer
In this interview C. Peter Timmer, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, reflects on the conditions of possibility of structural transformation in developing countries, particularly in Africa...
Economic growth Equality and inequality Income distributionAnnual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 18 - Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
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What can we Learn from Popular Representations of Development?17 October 2013 David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock When asked why she wrote novels about poverty rather than gather what we would now call ‘hard’ data, the Victorian novelist George Eliot famously responded that ‘a pi...
Economic development Qualitative research methodology Mass media