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Book 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 ReconsideredEarly view: When published this book will become Open Access. By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa...
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)Video
Regional Growth and Development in Southern Africa project - an interview with Channing ArndtChanning Arndt , Senior Research Fellow of UNU-WIDER, outlines the main research areas for this project on economic growth in the Southern African region. The project has two main elements – one specifically on the South African economy; the...
South Africa Industrialization Regional economicsPresentation
Presentation at the AERC Policy Seminar
Conference
UNU-WIDER International Development Conference in collaboration with the Central Institute of Economic Management (CIEM): Institutional Reforms for Transformation, Inclusion, and SustainabilityEconomic transformation, inclusive growth, and environmental sustainability are core 21st century development challenges in both low- and middle-income countries. Every country has its own institutional history with an evolving balance between the...
Project
Regional growth and development in Southern Africa
Theme: Transformation
South Africa Regional integration IndustrializationProject
Structural transformation and inclusive growth in Viet NamTheme: Transformation
This project responds to the SDG’s call for a strengthening of data collection and capacity-building in Member States. Timely and better disaggregated, country level data aids the search for an evidence-based course to realizing economic...
Vietnam Growth DevelopmentPanel discussion
Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Towards a renewed perspective on the cityThe 20th century witnessed global processes of urbanization on an unprecedented scale, to the extent that more than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas for the first time in human history. Latin America is the developing...