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Presentation - AL14Professor 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 stabilityJournal Article
The Impact of the Sectoral Allocation of Foreign aid on Gender InequalityPart of Journal Special Issue Aid for Gender Equality and Development
Economic assistance and foreign aid Econometric models (Economic development) Public expendituresBlog
Diversity debit vs. diversity dividend: Challenging the conventional wisdomIt 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 goodsJournal 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 goodsVideo
Theoretical ApproachesConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 1.4
Taxation Inequality PovertyJournal 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
The Progressivity and Regressivity of aid to the Social SectorsPart of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Public goodsJournal 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 CorruptionWorking Paper
Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reductionThe 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 goodsJournal Article
How should commodities be taxed?: A counter-argument to the recommendation in the Mirrlees ReviewThe 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 TaxationWorking 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 goodsJournal Article
Public Provision, Commodity Demand, and Hours of Work: An Empirical AnalysisThe theoretical analysis of optimal commodity taxation is advanced, but there is only limited empirical evidence to guide commodity tax policies...
Children Public goods TaxationJournal Article
Urban Governance and Service Delivery in African Cities: The Role of Politics and PoliciesPart of Journal Special Issue Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa
Delivery of goods Policy sciences Public goodsJournal Special Issue
Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan AfricaThis 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 goodsResearch Brief
Lessons from the National Solidarity Programme in AfghanistanThe 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 goodsResearch Brief
Every Drop Counts – Improving Aid to Water and SanitationEach 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