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    Green Growth: A Win-Win Approach to Sustainable Development?
    by Danielle Resnick, James Thurlow June 2012

    Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow The concept of ‘green growth’ is one which has understandable political currency, highlighted by its prominence in...

    • Climate change
    • Environment and economic development
    • Economic development
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    From the Editor's Desk (May 2012)
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    by Tony Addison May 2012

    Tony Addison Finland traditionally celebrates the start of summer on 1st May (the ‘Vappu’ holiday), and UNU-WIDER currently basks in warm sunshine. At...

    • Democracy
    • Households
    • Investments
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    From The Editor's Desk (October 2012)
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    by Tony Addison October 2012

    Tony Addison UNU-WIDER is having a very active and successful autumn. Our climate change and development policy conference at the end of September...

    • Economic development
    • Elite (Social sciences)
    • Equality and inequality
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    Science and Survival: Is an Agriculture-led Developmental Model the Way Forward for sub-Saharan Africa?
    by Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen, Roger Williamson May 2013

    9 May 2013 Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen and Roger Williamson Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century, (edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim...

    • Agriculture
    • Industrial policy
    • Industrialization
    Blog
    From the Editor’s Desk (September 2012)
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    by Tony Addison 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...

    • Air pollution
    • Agricultural innovations
    • Agriculture
    Blog
    The Great African Data Debate
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    by Carl-Gustav Lindén September 2013

    24 September 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén At the recent UNU-WIDER conference here in Helsinki on inclusive growth in Africa, the quality of national...

    • Economic growth
    • Equality and inequality
    • Household survey
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    From the Editor's Desk (March 2012)
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    by Tony Addison March 2012

    Tony Addison With the ice floes now gone from the harbour outside the UNU-WIDER building, and with the snow replaced by an icy hail, there is a...

    • Agriculture
    • Budget
    • Nationalism
    Blog
    From the Editor's Desk (June-July 2012)
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    by Tony Addison June 2012

    Tony Addison I started writing this ‘From the Editor’s Desk’ in Accra, to the sound of an African drum band, preparing for a ceremony to mark the...

    • Informal sector
    • Environment and economic development
    • Economic development
    Book Chapter
    Assessing Progress in Welfare Improvements in Zambia

    Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Game theory
    • Poverty
    • Welfare economics
    Report
    SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v1.0

    View the latest MOZMOD country report here. This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. This work was carried out by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique in collaboration with the project partners in the...

    • Tax
    • Government revenue
    • Government spending policy
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    From the Editor's Desk (January 2012)
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    by Tony Addison January 2012

    Tony Addison January saw the snow arrive in Helsinki. As I look out across the harbour, the scene is one of various shades of white and grey. The...

    • Commercial policy
    • Economic assistance and foreign aid
    • Economic development
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    From the Editor's Desk (February 2012)
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    by Tony Addison February 2012

    Tony Addison It’s now February, and Helsinki remains deep in snow. We had an extended blizzard last weekend, with temperatures hovering around minus...

    • Human capital
    • Nationalism
    • Democracy
    Book Chapter
    Slow Progress in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon

    Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Economic growth
    • Equality and inequality
    • Microeconomics
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    From The Editor's Desk (December 2012)
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    by Tony Addison December 2012

    Tony Addison This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it’s been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the...

    • Accessibility
    • Economic development
    • Climate change
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    From newsletter to blog - welcome to the new WIDERAngle
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    by Tony Addison December 2015

    By now you have probably seen the exciting revamp of our website. These changes are not cosmetic. They represent a fundamental rebuilding of our web...

    • Development
    Book Chapter
    The Fall of the Elephant

    Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Household survey
    • Poverty measurement
    • Welfare economics
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    Incomes, Inequality, and Poverty in Kenya

    Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Equality and inequality
    • Income
    • Poverty measurement
    Book Chapter
    Utility-Consistent Poverty in Madagascar, 2001-10

    Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Econometric models (Economic development)
    • Equality and inequality
    • Poverty
    Book Chapter
    Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Equality and inequality
    • Inflation
    • Macroeconomics
    Blog
    From the Editor's Desk (August 2012)
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    by Tony Addison August 2012

    Tony Addison With this issue, Angle returns refreshed from its Nordic summer break. The sun continues to shine on the Baltic, although it is getting...

    • Environment
    • Children
    • Climate change
    Book Chapter
    Growth and Poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Part of Book Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

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    From the Editor's Desk (April 2012)
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    by Tony Addison April 2012

    Tony Addison With our temperatures now well above zero, we head for the official end of the Finnish winter on 1st May (the ‘Vappu’ holiday). As...

    • Climate change
    • Democratization
    • Economic development
    Book Chapter
    Introduction

    Part of Book Economies in Transition

    • Economic policy
    • Institutional economics
    • Post-communism
    Book Chapter
    Is Pro-Active Government Support Needed for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries?

    Part of Book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

    • Economic policy (Business enterprises)
    • Entrepreneurship
    Blog
    Foreign Aid for Gender Equality: The Challenge for Donors
    by Malokele Nanivazo, Lucy Scott August 2012

    Malokele Nanivazo and Lucy Scott The first gender equality workshop under UNU-WIDER’S ReCom—Research and Communication in Foreign Aid project was held...

    • Economic assistance and foreign aid
    • Employees
    • Equality and inequality
    Blog
    Foreign Aid for Gender Equality: Future Agenda
    by Malokele Nanivazo, Lucy Scott September 2012

    This is the second of a two-part article presenting key discussion points from the UNU-WIDER gender equality workshop held 12-13 July 2012, in...

    • Economic assistance and foreign aid
    • Employees
    • Equality and inequality
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    Climate Change and Development Policy
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    by James Thurlow November 2012

    James Thurlow UNU-WIDER recently hosted an international conference on ‘Climate Change and Development Policy’. We were motivated by the apparent...

    • Environmental policy
    • Economic development
    • Economic growth
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    Climate Change and Development Policy: Competing Aims?
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    by Yongfu Huang September 2012

    Yongfu Huang The climate change crisis and development needs of the world's poor require us to acknowledge the necessity and urgency for both...

    • Climate change
    • Economic assistance and foreign aid
    • Economic development
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    The Chilean Development Model and the Limits of Neoliberal Economics
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    by Andrés Solimano May 2012

    Andrés Solimano Chile underwent a free market revolution initiated by the Pinochet regime in the 1970s and 1980s. A very similar model, with some...

    • Capitalism
    • Democracy
    • Economic development
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    The Big Picture: Aid, Growth, and Macroeconomic Management
    by Lucy Scott, Annett Victorero February 2012

    Lucy Scott and Annett Victorero The ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme held its first results meeting on the topic of ‘Aid...

    • Economic assistance and foreign aid
    • Economic development
    • Economic growth
    Blog
    After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Some Lessons on Transition
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    by Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen June 2012

    Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London was the setting on 19 June 2012 for the launch of the...

    • Capitalism
    • Democracy
    • Economic policy
    Blog
    Who Captures Value in Global Supply Chains?: The Case of Nokia's N95 Smartphone
    by Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Petri Rouvinen, Timo Seppälä, Pekka Ylä-Anttila May 2011

    Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Petri Rouvinen, Timo Seppälä, Pekka Ylä-Anttila Available statistics biases the true picture of the current stage of globalization...

    • Accounting
    • Globalization
    • Industrial management
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