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Development and poverty in sub-Saharan AfricaWhen it comes to reporting on Africa, the international news media has, over time, delivered very mixed messages. Yet there are still many who characterize sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a region of hunger, economic crisis, and political unrest...
Sub-Saharan Africa Economic development TransformationLecture
Economic development in Asia: Learning from a half-century of transformations
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Rethinking Asian Drama: Fifty Years LaterFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Gunnar Myrdal History (Economics) TransformationSeminar
Public Forum on extractive industry and developmentThe Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme will host a public forum on 26 March 2019 on the topic of Extractive Industry and Development. The Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER Tony Addison will give a presentation based on a major...
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Press release - Professor Kunal Sen starts as the director of UNU-WIDER‘Economic transformation needs to be accompanied by political and social transformations if we are to see drastic increases in human wellbeing’
SDGs Transformation InformalityWorking Paper
Rethinking Asian DramaGunnar Myrdal published Asian Drama in 1968, a work which made important analytical contributions to our understanding of development but was deeply pessimistic about Asia’s future prospects...
Gunnar Myrdal History (Economics) TransformationBook Chapter
Telecommunication and ICT-based services tradeFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Telecommunication Growth InvestmentBook Chapter
Industries without smokestacks and structural transformation in Africa: OverviewFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
industry Growth InvestmentBook
Industries without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa ReconsideredThis 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...
industry Growth InvestmentPolicy Brief
Industries without smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa reconsideredOur research shows that structural change in Africa is relying on a new set of economic activities, called ‘industries without smokestacks’, created by recent technological changes and a changing global market place...
industry Growth InvestmentBook Chapter
Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives: Some practical observations from GhanaFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Development Extractives RegulatoryJournal Article
Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunitiesPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
South Africa Growth TransformationJournal Special Issue
Regional Growth OpportunitiesThis issue contains seven articles addressing the major changes underway in the integration of economies in southern Africa. This special issue is based on the UNU-WIDER project 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa'...
Growth Industrialization Natural resourcesWorking Paper
Regulatory structures and challenges to developmental extractives: Some practical observations from GhanaAt the heart of an effective extractive resource-based economic transformation and development is an effective regulatory framework that guides the promotion of investments into the sector, the procedure for responsible extraction, and the management...
Development Extractives RegulatoryWorking Paper
Development and poverty in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper puts sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development into perspective...
Sub-Saharan Africa Economic development TransformationBlog
Prospects for a Tanzanian transformation
Researchers, policy makers, and representatives of international institutions recently gathered in Dar es Salaam to discuss prospects for a transformation of Tanzania’s economy...
Transformation Growth Informal sector (Economics)