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WIDER Annual Lecture 18: Managing Structural Transformation
18 December 2014 Roger Williamson At the UN headquarters in New York on 18 November 2014, Peter Timmer, emeritus professor from Harvard, showed how the three transformations (structural, agricultural, and dietary) relate to development...
Agriculture Climate change Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Journal Article
Technology Adoption and Food Security in Subsistence Agriculture: Evidence from a Group-Based Aid Project in MozambiqueThis paper evaluates the impact of an intervention to improve farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique...
Agriculture Food security Technological innovationsPresentation
Technology and Competitiveness in VietnamProfessor Carol Newman and professor Finn Tarp , director of WIDER, gave a presentation about technology and competitiveness in Vietnam. Presentation slides
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Exporting and Productivity: The Role of Ownership and Innovation in the Case of VietnamIn this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11...
Business enterprises Commerce Organizational behaviorReport
What Do We Know About Aid as We Approach 2015?The ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid—programme produced 240 original studies...
Agriculture Children Climate changeWorking Paper
Innovation Capabilities for Sustainable Development in AfricaA sustainable pathway for Africa in the twenty-first century is laid out in the setting of the development of innovation capabilities and the capture of latecomer advantages...
Economic development Industrial policy IndustrializationWorking Paper
Modeling Fuel Choice Among Households in Northern CameroonThe present study aims to explore economic and socio-demographic factors that influence the household’s probability to switch from firewood to clean fuels in northern Cameroon...
Households Renewable energy Technological innovationsWorking Paper
Innovation at the World Bank: Selective Perspectives Over Three Decades 1975-2005The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices...
Economic development International agencies Technological innovationsBlog
What can we Learn from Popular Representations of Development?17 October 2013 David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock When asked why she wrote novels about poverty rather than gather what we would now call ‘hard’ data, the Victorian novelist George Eliot famously responded that ‘a pi...
Economic development Qualitative research methodology Mass mediaWorking Paper
Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in DevelopmentPublic sector reforms are commonplace in developing countries. Much of the literature about these reforms reflects on their failures...
Bureaucracy Economic development Economic growthWorking Paper
Foreign Aid and Sustainable Fisheries Management in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefited from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades...
Biodiversity conservation Econometric models Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
Telling the Truth about Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Development…: It just happens to be an Inconvenient Truth
22 August 2013 Han Ei Chew I am compelled to let a rattling skeleton out of the closet of ICT and development...
Information technology Technological innovationsBlog
Science and Survival: Is an Agriculture-led Developmental Model the Way Forward for sub-Saharan Africa?9 May 2013 Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen and Roger Williamson Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century , (edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Ludovico Alcorta) a new book with important messages on industrial policy, particular...
Agriculture Industrial policy IndustrializationBlog
From the Editor's Desk (April 2013)
30 April 2013 Tony Addison As April closes, our thoughts turn to UNU-WIDER’s spring/summer programme. And it’s a busy one...
Economic development Conflict management Economic assistance and foreign aidJournal Article
The Economic Legacy of Civil War: Firm-level Evidence from Sierra LeonePart of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict
Economic development Econometric models (Economic development) EntrepreneurshipBook
Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges and Emerging ParadigmsOver the last two centuries, the experiences of the first wave of industrialized countries in Europe and the US, and the more recent experiences of the East Asian Tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, China, India, and Vietnam, have illustrated the ...
Industrial policy Industrialization Labour market