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SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.0View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Zambia - MicroZAMOD v1.0View the latest MicroZAMOD country report here . This report documents MicroZAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Zambia...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v1.0View the latest MOZMOD country report here . This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Tanzania - TAZMOD v1.0View the latest TAZMOD country report here . This report documents TAZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Tanzania...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policyJournal Article
Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies?Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Government spending policyJournal Article
Aid and Government Fiscal Behavior: Assessing Recent EvidencePart of Journal Special Issue Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
Economic assistance and foreign aid Fiscal policy Government spending policyBlog
Taxation: Inequality, Equity, and Efficiency – An Interview with Michael Keen
8 October 2014 by Roger Williamson Michael Keen from the International Monetary Fund addressed the UNU-WIDER Development Conference in September 2014 “Equity Objectives and Puzzles in Linking Tax and Spending”...
Government policy (Poor) Equality and inequality EquityBlog
Rising Inequality – How to Reverse It?30 October 2014 Dominik Etienne and Annett Victorero The last decade has witnessed a revival of concern over the impact of high-income concentration on economic development and wellbeing...
Economic development Economic growth Economic policyWorking Paper
Can One Retell a Mozambican Reform Story Through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation?Many public sector reforms in developing countries fail to make governments more functional. This is typically because reforms introduce new solutions that do not fit the contexts in which they are being placed...
Government accountability Government spending policyWorking Paper
Social Spending and Aggregate Welfare in Developing and Transition EconomiesNotwithstanding the unprecedented attention devoted to reducing poverty and fostering human development via scaling up social sector spending, there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical work on the question of whether social spending is effectiv...
Education Public expenditures Government spending policyResearch Brief
Service Delivery in Nairobi and MombasaIn the WIDER Working Paper ‘Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa: Policies, politics and inter-governmental relations’ Winnie V...
Economic development Government spending policy Intergovernmental fiscal relationsWorking Paper
Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies?: Implementation of the New Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Health and Education in ZambiaThere is a growing interest in the debate on aid effectiveness for assessing the impact of aid not only on economic growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Government spending policyResearch Brief
The Fungibility Problem: Budget Support, Aid on Delivery or Project Aid?One persistent concern raised during discussions of whether aid effectively promotes the goals of donors is fungibility, that is; the possibility that aid is used in ways not intended by donors when disbursing the funds...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy Government policy (Poor)Blog
From the Editor’s Desk (November 2012)
Tony Addison This month saw the visit of Kaushik Basu, the World Bank’s new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, to talk about the global crisis and the impact on emerging economies at a UNU-WIDER seminar...
Agriculture Conflict management Economic developmentWorking Paper
Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and MombasaIn many African countries, decentralization has long been viewed as a means for improving local service delivery...
Economic development Government spending policy Intergovernmental fiscal relationsResearch Brief
Aid, Debt, and Public Expenditure AllocationIt is predicted that the global financial crisis will negatively affect developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa both through a reduction in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) caused by the shrinking (or stagnating) of the economies of many majo...
Public debt Economic assistance and foreign aid Fiscal policy