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From the Editor's Desk (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...
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Lessons from Africa's Democratic Upheavals
Danielle Resnick During the last month, three democracies in Africa witnessed incumbent presidents exit office in very different ways. The most...
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Can New Aid Modalities Handle Politics?Are recent donor approaches compatible with a political understanding of policy processes in partner or recipient countries? This question is given increased urgency with the recent calls for and commitment to increasing financial flows, scaling-up...
Working Paper
Hardening a Soft Budget Constraint Through 'Upward Devolution' to a Supranational InstitutionThis paper contributes to the literature on the role of decentralization in hardening the budget constraint of public enterprises. Following Qian and Roland the study adopts a ‘federalist’ approach. However, it interprets federalism as the upward...
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The saga and limits of public financial managementAt independence in 1975, the Frelimo government took over public administration from the colonial system and started to transform it. The public financial management (PFM) system was adapted to the central planning and management of the economy in...
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Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targetingPart of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
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Do Pacific Countries Receive Too Much Foreign Aid?Part of Journal Special Issue Focus
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Can integrated infrastructure investment plans contribute to more effective public spending?All countries, especially developing countries with limited financial resources, face difficult decisions in prioritizing public funds for investment projects in order to achieve strategic public goals in the face of multiple demands. Effective...
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How Aid Supplies from Donor Countries Respond to Economic CrisisThe strong interdependent relationship between the developed and developing countries made itself visible again with the recent economic downturn. Due to the now truly global character of the economy, the crisis did not only affect the North, where...
Research Brief
Democratic Consolidation and Donor Activity in MalawiOn April 7 2012, following the death of President Mutharika, Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi's new president. Addressing parliament, President Banda made it clear that she intended to shake up Malawi, suggesting that she would repeal anti...
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Aid to MozambiqueIn Mozambique donors have shifted focus from project aid to budget support in an effort to reform the public sector and ‘justice, legality and public order’. While budget support has increased state capacity and helped Mozambique’s donor community...
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Democratic Trajectories in AfricaDespite impressive economic growth rates over the last decade, foreign aid still plays a significant role in Africa's political economies.This book asks when, why, and how foreign aid has facilitated, or hindered, democratization in sub-Saharan...
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The Changing Dynamics of Foreign Aid and Democracy in MozambiquePart of Book Democratic Trajectories in Africa
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From the Editor's Desk (December 2013)
10 December 2013 Tony Addison Our November-December Angle comes amid intense activity on our ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid—programme...
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How Aid Supply Responds to Economic CrisesThe strong interdependence between the developed and developing worlds surfaced with the recent economic downturn. Due to the global character of the economy, the downturn affected not only the North but also the South. In addition, the Official...
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Two Steps Forward, One Step BackSince the era of one-party rule, Malawi’s relationship with the donor community has proved erratic and contentious. During the second term of Malawi’s current president, Bingu wa Mutharika, this trend has continued apace, with important implications...
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The Changing Dynamics of Foreign Aid and Democracy in MozambiqueThis study explores the effects of foreign aid on democracy in Mozambique during the last decade. Aid for democracy built on historic relationships forged between donors and the government during the wartime humanitarian emergency. Foreign aid played...
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Increased Income Inequality in OECD Countries and the Redistributive Impact of the Government BudgetThe recent rise in inequality in the distribution of disposable income in many, although not all, countries has led to a search for explanations, particularly since for much of the postwar period falling inequality has been the norm. In OECD...
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Budgetary Institutions and Fiscal Consolidation in GhanaTo halt the deterioration of their national economy most African governments embarked on IMF and World Bank supported Structural Adjustment Programmes. These programmes have been criticised as neglecting social costs and promoting export-led growth...
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A Global Environmental Compact for Sustainable DevelopmentThe proposals in this paper derive from studies undertaken at WIDER on questions relating to sustainable development in developing countries. The paper attempts to quantify the resource transfer implications of supporting feasible environment...
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Hiccups for HIPCs?In this paper we discuss monetary and fiscal policy issues facing heavily-indebted poor countries (HIPCs) who receive debt reduction via the enhanced HIPC initiative. This debt relief program is distinguished from previous ones by its conditionality...
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Aid Modalities and Budgetary ResponsePart of Journal Special Issue Foreign Aid Heterogeneity
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Project Assistance versus Budget SupportPart of Journal Special Issue Foreign Aid Heterogeneity
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Practical and Theoretical Implications of the Joint Evaluation of General Budget SupportPart of Book Foreign Aid for Development
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From the Editor’s Desk (October 2013)
31 October 2013 Tony Addison October finds Angle in New York, for our event on ‘Fragility and Aid–What Works?’ at the Permanent Mission of Germany to...
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Getting into a State?
30 October 2013 Roger Williamson The UNU-WIDER meeting held last week in New York on the topic of fragility and aid argued forcefully that you cannot...
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The Complicated Effects of Foreign Aid on African Democracy
13 December 2013 Annett Victorero The effects of development aid are not straightforward, and often have unintended consequences. An inflow of money...
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Increased Income Inequality in OECD Countries and the Redistributive Impact of the Government BudgetPart of Book Inequality, Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization
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Hardening a Soft Budget Constraint Through 'Upward Devolution' to a Supranational InstitutionPart of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
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