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Making Finance the Servant not the Master
Tony Addison Today, there is much frustration with the financial sector. Society’s precious savings are not being put to the best of uses—investing for the social good...
Banking Capitalism Public debtWorking Paper
How Aid Supply Responds to Economic Crises: A Panel VAR ApproachThe strong interdependence between the developed and developing worlds surfaced with the recent economic downturn. Due to the global character of the economy, the downturn affected not only the North but also the South...
Budget Economic assistance and foreign aid Econometric models (Finance)Journal Article
The Triple Crisis and the Global Aid ArchitectureThe global economy is passing through a period of profound change. The immediate concern is with the financial crisis, originating in the North...
Climate change Financial crisis Food industry and tradeJournal Article
Financing Social Protection for Children in Crisis ContextsThe global financial crisis has emphasised the fundamental role of social protection institutions in developing countries...
Children Financial crisis PovertyJournal Article
The Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in VietnamEconomic growth in Vietnam was resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear why. Impacts on employment and poverty are also disputed...
Commercial policy Government policy (Poor) Financial crisis
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Aid Supplies Over Time: Accounting for Heterogeneity, Trends and DynamicsThe recent financial crisis has rekindled interest in the foreign aid supply behaviour of bilateral donors. Using the latest data covering the period 1960-2009, this paper examines how such behaviour is related to domestic factors...
Business cycles Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial crisisWorking Paper
The Global Financial Crisis and Development: Whither AfricaThe global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) appeared to be on a march toward real economic and human progress, following the dismal performance of the 1980s and early 1990s...
Economic development Financial crisisWorking Paper
New Challenges for Industrial PolicyThis paper calls for a fresh look at industrial policies in the light of recent trends and developments in the global economy. In particular, five new challenges and their implications for industrial policies are discussed...
Climate change Economic development EntrepreneurshipWorking Paper
Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in VietnamEconomic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in dispute...
Commercial policy Financial crisis Government policy (Poor)Conference
UNU-WIDER 25th Anniversary Conference: The Triple Crisis – Finance, Food and Climate ChangeIn the 25 years of UNU-WIDER’s existence both foundational and responsive research have been carried out, aiming to be innovative and relevant in advancing development economics research and policy-making with a strong focus on poverty...
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The Global Economic Crisis and Developing Countries: Effects, Responses and Options for Sustainable RecoveryFollowing the financial crisis that broke in the U.S. and other Western economies in late 2008 and led to a global economic crisis, there is now worldwide concern about its effect on the developing countries...
Financial crisisBlog
The Triple Crisis: Finance, Food and Climate ChangeTony Addison and Finn Tarp More than 200 researchers and policymakers came together in Helsinki in mid-May to celebrate UNU-WIDER's 25th anniversary and to discuss the 'Triple Crisis' of finance, food and climate change—and its impl...
Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial crisisWorking Paper
Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic CrisisBuilding on a Lewis-type model of structural change and entrepreneurship we show how a global economic crisis consisting of a financial and a trade shock can undermine structural change in developing countries via the start-up and innovation activiti...
Economic development Entrepreneurship Financial crisisNews
Opinion - UNU-WIDER on the 'Triple Crisis'Three interconnected crises - of the global financial system, food security and global warming - potentially threaten peace and stability. Multilateral action must be combined with a clearer understanding of how they affect each other and their...
Financial crisis GDP Climate changeWorking Paper
The Triple Crisis and the Global Aid ArchitectureThe global economy is passing through a period of profound change. The immediate concern is with the financial crisis, originating in the North...
Climate change Financial crisis Food industry and trade