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The impact of a higher leverage ratio on the South African economyWe employ a micro-founded and stock-and-flow-consistent model to study the impact of a higher leverage ratio on the South African economy. The model provides a rich representation of institutional balance sheets...
Computable general equilibrium Financial dynamics Leverage ratioJournal Article
Risks of Coastal Storm Surge and the Effect of Sea Level Rise in the Red River Delta, VietnamPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
Climate change Environment Natural disastersBlog
How Can Governments Better Respond to Global Food Price Fluctuations?
Much of UNU-WIDER’s research in the last few years was initiated under the 2010-13 work programme on the triple crisis of finance, food, and climate change. The financial crisis from 2008 onwards has received massive worldwide attention...
Economic policy Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Food securityJournal Article
Poverty, Vulnerability, and Reference-Dependent UtilityPart of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics
Poverty Risk management UncertaintyBlog
Cost of Capital: The Real Price of Green Energy
4 July 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén In recent years the price of green energy technology has come down dramatically. This means that European investments in renewable energy can be very competitive...
Capital Capital market Cost effectivenessBlog
Aid and our Changing Environment: What did we Learn?
24 June 2013 Tony Addison The Stockholm ReCom results meeting at Sida on 4 June was a lively exchange on all aspects of foreign aid and climate change finance (including the role of private finance)...
Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aid Environmental policyBlog
From the Editor's Desk (May 2013) 9 May 2013 Tony Addison With May ending, we head into a very busy June for UNU-WIDER (and midsummer). Next week we are back in Stockholm at Sida for the ReCom results meeting on ‘Aid, climate change, and the environment ’...
Econometric models (Economic development) Climate change Corporate governanceWorking Paper
Risks of Coastal Storm Surge and the Effect of Sea Level Rise in the Red River Delta, VietnamThis paper considers the impact of sea level rise and storm surge on the Red River delta region of Vietnam an area already known to be highly vulnerable to coastal risks...
Climate change Environment Natural disastersJournal Article
In Violence as in Peace: Violent Conflict and Rural Entrepreneurship in the PhilippinesPart of Journal Special Issue Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries
Conflict management Entrepreneurship Investment analysisJournal Article
Measuring Vulnerability: An Overview and IntroductionPart of Journal Special Issue Vulnerability in Development
Conflict management Poverty Poverty measurementJournal Article
Measuring the Vulnerability of Subnational Regions in South AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Vulnerability in Development
Poverty measurement Regional economics RiskJournal Special Issue
Vulnerability in Development: Advances in Concept and MeasurementThe six papers in this Special Issue to provide insights into advances in conceptualizing and measuring vulnerability, in particularly household vulnerability to poverty and country and regional vulnerability to external shocks...
Conflict management Poverty Poverty measurementBook Chapter
Measuring Vulnerability and Poverty: Estimates for Rural IndiaFrom the book: Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Government policy (Poor) Poverty measurement RiskBook Chapter
Vulnerability Dynamics and HIV Risk in the Semi-Arid Tropics of Rural Andhra PradeshFrom the book: Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Agriculture Health Internal migrationWorking Paper
Measuring the Vulnerability of Subnational RegionsA small but growing literature has been concerned about the economic (and environmental) vulnerability on the level of countries. Less attention is paid to the economic vulnerability of different regions within countries...
Poverty measurement Regional economics RiskWorking Paper
Assessing Vulnerability Before, During and After a Natural Disaster in Fragile Regions: Case Study of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Sri Lanka and IndonesiaCurrent approaches of measuring vulnerability to natural hazards generally use a rather static perspective that focuses on a single point in time—often before a hazardous event occurs...
Humanitarian assistance Natural disasters Poverty measurement