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From the Editor’s Desk (September 2012)

Tony Addison Mid-September finds UNU-WIDER very busy preparing for our big conference on climate change and development policy that takes place later this month, as well as our WIDER Annual Lecture by Lant Pritchett of Harvard University (you can als...

Air pollution Agricultural innovations Agriculture
Working Paper
Aid, Fiscal Policy, Climate Change, and Growth

This paper sets out to provide an introduction to two sets of questions, and to some relevant literature that has tried to answer them...

Climate change Economic assistance and foreign aid Public finance
Project
Building state capability through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Theme: 2012-13

As a sub-component of the Research and Communication on Foreign Aid (ReCom) programme, the PDIA project feeds into the themes: governance and fragility & social sectors. An integral part of development is the expansion of capability of the state...

Foreign aid Development Social sectors
Blog
Do the Awakening Giants Have Feet of Clay?
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It's imperative to demolish myths around the economic achievements of China and India and get a better sense of the real challenges...

Economic development Economic growth Equality and inequality
Book
Fiscal Policy for Development: Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth

Fiscal policy is critical to the development of poor countries...

Economic development Public expenditures Public finance
Book Chapter
Emergent Regime Formation for the Information Society and the Impact on Africa

From the book: New Economy in Development

Economic integration Economic policy Public finance
Book Chapter
Development Finance

From the book: Development Agendas and Insights

Economic development Finance Public finance
Book
Fiscal Policy for Development: Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth

Fiscal policy is critical to the development of poor countries...

Economic development Public expenditures Public finance
Book Chapter
Over-Arching Issues

Part of Journal Special Issue

Economic assistance and foreign aid Public finance Fiscal policy
Book Chapter
Introduction

From the book: Fiscal Policy for Development

Economic development Public expenditures Public finance
Book Chapter
Global Public Economics

Part of Journal Special Issue

Economic assistance and foreign aid Public finance International finance
Working Paper
Innovative Sources for Development Finance: Over-Arching Issues

In analysing proposals for new sources of development funding, there are several issues that arise across the board. What is the role of new sources in relation to existing overseas development assistance?...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Public finance Fiscal policy
Working Paper
Emergent Global Information Infrastructure/Global Information Society: Regime Formation and the Impact on Africa

This paper combines a theoretical perspective on globalization and the information society with a critical usage of international regime theory in order to contribute to a better understanding of the current historical period of transition from an in...

Economic integration Economic policy Public finance
Working Paper
Testing for a Significant Change in the Egyptian Economy Under the Economic Reform Programme Era

Late 1990, Egypt witnessed major and radical changes in all areas of its national life—political, legal, economic and social—as a reflection of implementing an economic reform programme in order to achieve progress in its economic indicat...

Economic development Public finance Foreign exchange
Working Paper
Public Finance and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries

The study is an empirical test of the effects of different categories of government expenditure, revenue and deficits on economic growth in developing countries...

Econometric models (Economic development) Public expenditures Public finance
Working Paper
Employment-Based Safety Nets: Exploring an Alternative Approach to Limit the Adverse Consequences of Recurrent Droughts in Ethiopia

Public finance Food security Natural disasters
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