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Feasibility study: simulating the impacts of farm subsidies on poverty and inequality in African countriesAgricultural subsidies may have significant productive and distributional consequences, and policy-makers need to be able to assess these impacts as a part of the overall tax and benefit policy...
Agricultural policy Subsidies TaxationWorking Paper
Agricultural input subsidy and farmers outcomes in TanzaniaThis paper examines the impact of the government input subsidy—the National Agriculture Input Voucher—on farmers’ production and welfare in Tanzania as well as the factors that influence agricultural production in the country...
Difference-in-differences Subsidies ProductionBlog
From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30 th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development Economics’ here in Helsinki. It was a great occasion...
Agriculture Business enterprises Capital investmentsBlog
Malawi's Farm Subsidy Benefits the Poor but Doesn't Come CheapMalawi’s farm input subsidy benefits the poor and can be part of a viable national development strategy. Agriculture is Malawi’s main economic sector...
Agriculture Economic equilibrium Public expendituresBlog
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 effectivenessBook Chapter
Entrepreneurship and the Developmental StateFrom the book: Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Economic development EntrepreneurshipBook Chapter
Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Development: A Finnish ViewFrom the book: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Industrial policy SubsidiesWorking Paper
Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Development: A Finnish ViewThis article first reviews the economic rationales for innovation policy. It then describes the Finnish innovation policy and policy making environment. The Finnish policy is evaluated from the point of view of fostering entrepreneurship...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Industrial policy SubsidiesBlog
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development: Lessons from Finland
Otto Toivanen At least since the 1950s it has been recognized that innovation is central to economic growth. It has also been well understood that innovations both generate and rely on externalities...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Research (Technological innovations) Industrial policyJournal Article
The Growth of Poor Children in China, 1991-2000: Why Food Subsidies May MatterPart of Journal Special Issue Health and Development
Children Food security MalnutritionBlog
How American Capitalism Really Works: Some Lessons for Developing Countries
William Lazonick Defined as the act of forming a new business, entrepreneurship is viewed as a prime way in which individualism can contribute to economic development...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Economic development EntrepreneurshipBook Chapter
Immediate Prospects for Additional Finance: What Might be Done Now or Soon and on What Conditions?From the book: Development Finance in the Global Economy
Economic assistance and foreign aid International economic relations SubsidiesBook Chapter
China Urban Poverty and its Contributing Factors, 1986-2000From the book: Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China
Households Government policy (Poor) PovertyWorking Paper
Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Developmental State: Lessons from the Advanced EconomiesA basic intellectual challenge for those concerned with the poverty of nations is to come to grips with the nature and causes of the wealth of the world’s wealthier nations...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Economic development EntrepreneurshipJournal Article
Urban poverty in China and its contributing factors, 1986-2000Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality and Poverty in China
Households Government policy (Poor) Poverty