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25 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

Working Paper

Quality of Life Measures in Health Care and Medical Ethics

Working Paper

Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties

This paper analyses the decentralization of decisionmaking in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential recipients...

Working Paper

Applying Behavioural Economics to International Development Policy

Many development policies and programmes are premised on a traditional economic model of rationality to predict how individuals will respond to changes in incentives. Despite the emphasis of these programmes on poverty reduction, economists and the...

Working Paper

A Contract Perspective on the International Finance Facility

The present paper is a first attempt to develop a theoretical model using a short-term vis-à-vis long-term contract framework within which donor countries’ endorsement or rejection decision towards the recently proposed International Finance Facility...

Working Paper

A Global Environmental Compact for Sustainable Development

The 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...

Working Paper

Utilities, Preferences and Substantive Goods

Background Note

Behavioural experiments as an impactful tool in sustainable development

Introduction Only recently has the importance and potential of behavioural sciences been recognized as a critical tool to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This long-awaited recognition comes from the highest levels of the United...

Working Paper

Armed group opportunism in the face of recent crises

Terrorist and other types of armed groups often exploit natural and human-made disasters and emergencies to advance their causes. This paper studies how some armed groups have responded to two recent global emergencies—climate change and the COVID-19...

Working Paper

Socioeconomic and cultural drivers of women’s formal work in rural Ghana

We study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment in a subsistence agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour. We use a...

Working Paper

This article analyses the organizational structure as well as the characteristics of development finance provided by Arab donor countries. This is done with a comparative view in relation to western donors and with the aim to develop recommendations...

Working Paper

Bilateral Donors' Aid Allocation Decisions

The present paper adds to the already large existing literature on aid distribution as it runs an equation on bilateral aid allocation on a very rich dataset, covering 20 years (1980-99), 22 donors and 137 recipients, which permits a three...

Working Paper

Determinants of State Fragility and Implications for Aid Allocation

This paper is derived from our ongoing research on fragile states funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to help policymakers and analysts make decisions on where and how to allocate aid, especially in fragile state...

by Leigh Anderson, Kostas G. Stamoulis 2007

by C. Leigh Anderson and Kostas Stamoulis Behavioural economics combines the insights of psychology and economics to better understand and predict...

Blog

Lessons from Behavioural Economics for Development Policy

by Jukka Pirttilä April 2014

23 April 2014 Jukka Pirttilä In conventional economic theory, agents are assumed to be able to make rational choices, unaffected by emotions and not...

Seminar

Simone Bertoli on co-residence patterns of the individuals left behind by the migrants and their analytical implications: evidence from Mexico

Simone Bertoli will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 18 September 2019. Abstract – Co-residence patterns of the individuals left behind by the migrants and their analytical implications: Evidence from Mexico Co-authors: Elsa Gautrain and Elie...

18 September 2019

UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland

Past event

Seminar

Ravi Pendakur on the impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities

Ravi Pendakur will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 8 November 2019. Abstract - The impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities In Canada, modern agreements allow Indigenous groups to govern their internal...

8 November 2019

Marina Congress Center - Baltica Meeting Room, Katajanokanlaituri 6 , Helsinki, Finland

Past event