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Local Perceptions and PoliciesConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 4.3
Climate change Microeconomics Economic policyVideo
Opening Welcome and Conference OverviewFinn Tarp opens the UNU-WIDER conference on Climate Change and Development Policy.
Climate change Economic policyVideo
Middle East and North Africa IConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 1.3
Water Climate change AgricultureBlog
Regional Industrialization and Integration in Southern Africa - Reporting from TIPS Annual Forum
The white-painted cluster of traditional style buildings might suggest that this was a farm on the South African veldt...
Automotive industry Carbon tax Economic integrationPolicy Brief
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Agriculture, Growth, and Development in Africa :: Theory and PracticeFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2. Africa has achieved a much-improved agricultural and economic growth performance over the last 15 years...
Agriculture Economic development Economic policyBlog
Development Finance: The Role for Aid in Africa
Aid’s future, its history, and its impact were the topics of a policy workshop held by UNU-WIDER in co-operation with the Embassy of Denmark in Dar es Salaam on 8 June ...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic growth Economic policyBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (June-August 2015) And so we come to the summer Angle . We have just passed the longest day (midsummer) in Helsinki, with 19 or so hours of daylight...
Agriculture Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic growthBlog
Institutions and Impact – Some Reflections on the UNU-WIDER Method I have spent much of the last two years on behalf of UNU-WIDER engaged in thinking about these two issues, but only on this current trip to Toronto, to interview Professor Gerry Helleiner with my colleague Annett Victorero, have I seen that instituti...
Economic policy Information technology Institutional economicsJournal Special Issue
Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of AidThis is an introduction to the UNU-WIDER special issue of World Development on aid policy and the macroeconomic management of aid...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy Monetary policyJournal Article
Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of AidPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy Monetary policyBlog
Inequality in South Africa - An Interview with Murray Leibbrandt At the UNU-WIDER Inequality conference September 2014 we interviewed Murray Leibbrandt, Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town on issues of inequality in South Africa...
Children Economic policy EducationBlog
From the Editor's Desk (April 2015) So we have reached April. The year is starting to move fast...
Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policyBlog
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 securityBlog
From the Editor's Desk (March 2015) I’m writing this editorial from Dar es Salaam, while at the 20 th anniversary workshop for Tanzania’s REPOA , one of our research partners...
Capitalism Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policyBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (February 2015) February found UNU-WIDER busy sending out Calls for Papers on topics ranging from social protection to clean energy to discrimination and affirmative action. You can find them here . There are more to come...
Agricultural industries Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aid