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Presentation - AL14

Professor José Antonio Ocampo will deliver the UNU-WIDER 14th Annual Lecture on 9 December 2010 at the UN headquarters in New York. The lecture addresses Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture. Amidst still unsettled...

Public goods International finance Financial stability
Journal Article
The Impact of the Sectoral Allocation of Foreign aid on Gender Inequality

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid for Gender Equality and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Econometric models (Economic development) Public expenditures
Blog
Diversity debit vs. diversity dividend: Challenging the conventional wisdom

It is widely accepted in recent work in economics and political science that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on the provision of public goods such as health and education...

Education Health Public goods
Journal Article
Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in Zambia: Evidence of a Subnational “Diversity Dividend”

The “diversity debit” hypothesis – that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on social, economic, and political outcomes – has been widely accepted in the literature...

Education Health Public goods
Video
Theoretical Approaches

Conference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 1.4

Taxation Inequality Poverty
Journal 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 policy
Journal Article
The Progressivity and Regressivity of aid to the Social Sectors

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Public goods
Journal Article
What Can Experiments Tell Us About How to Improve Government Performance?

Part of Journal Special Issue Experiments in Development Economics

Public (Decision making) Economic development Corruption
Working Paper
Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction

The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries...

Income tax Poverty Public goods
Journal Article
How should commodities be taxed?: A counter-argument to the recommendation in the Mirrlees Review

The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some goods consumed in conjunction with labour supply (such as child care) left untaxed...

Public goods Taxation
Working Paper
Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Goods Provision in Zambia: Further Evidence of a Subnational ‘Diversity Dividend’

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance...

Education Health Public goods
Journal Article
Public Provision, Commodity Demand, and Hours of Work: An Empirical Analysis

The theoretical analysis of optimal commodity taxation is advanced, but there is only limited empirical evidence to guide commodity tax policies...

Children Public goods Taxation
Journal Article
Urban Governance and Service Delivery in African Cities: The Role of Politics and Policies

Part of Journal Special Issue Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa

Delivery of goods Policy sciences Public goods
Journal Special Issue
Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa

This special issue comprises UNU-WIDER research focusing on key governance challenges related to addressing gaps in urban service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Decision making (Public administration) Public goods
Research Brief
Lessons from the National Solidarity Programme in Afghanistan

The National Solidarity Programme (NSP) serves as a success story that has improved many Afghan lives and laid the groundwork for potential longer-term development...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Public goods
Research Brief
Every Drop Counts – Improving Aid to Water and Sanitation

Each dollar of aid per year provides 0.17 people with access to water or sanitation. This amounts to a cost of US$5.88 per person. Due to economies of scale, countries with large populations benefit more from aid to the water and sanitation sectors...

Econometric models (Economic development) Economic assistance and foreign aid Environmental economics
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