Blog

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

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

Blog

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

Blog

by Martin Medina December 2009

Martin Medina As world leaders gather in Copenhagen this month for the fifteenth United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) the challenges...

• Ecology
• Environment
• Industrialization

Journal Special Issue

The roots of development economics lie in the study of large-scale phenomena such as economic transformation. Climate change, as a global phenomenon, is drawing the attention of the profession back towards studies of transformational processes...

• Climate change
• Economic development
• Global warming

Working Paper

The Mekong River is the major water source in Southeast Asia and shared by six countries. There is a rush to acquire sources of alternative energy and other benefits to meet the growing demand for water and energy, while China and Myanmar have...

• Environment
• Game theory
• International relations

Working Paper

The present study develops a reliability assessment method of wind resource using optimum reservoir target power operations that maximizes the firm generation of integrated wind and hydro power. A combined water resources model for a system of...

• Mathematical models (Economics)
• Environment
• Infrastructure (Economics)

Working Paper

Climate change scenarios for many Sub-Saharan African countries including Ghana indicate that temperatures will increase while rainfall will either increase or decrease. The potential impact of climate change on economic systems is well-known...

• Environment
• Global warming
• Infrastructure (Economics)

Policy Brief

A multidisciplinary research project organized by UNU-WIDER shows that ongoing destruction of the world's forests is greatly contributing to the greenhouse effect. Deforestation is often a consequence of market distortions that hide the real economic...

• Climate change
• Economic growth
• Environment

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue UNU-WIDER Special Symposium on Aid, Environment and Climate Change

• Foreign aid
• Climate change
• Environment

Journal Special Issue

This special section on aid and institutions discusses how they constitute an important element of the global response to interlinked global developmental and environmental challenges. As such, these institutions are now being drawn into new arenas...

• Foreign aid
• Climate change
• Environment

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Climate change
• Environment
• Global warming

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Climate change
• Environment and economic development
• Environment

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Climate change
• Environment
• Natural disasters

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Environment

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Climate change
• Econometric models
• Global warming

Working Paper

Productivity gains are the prime engine of economic growth. This paper uses a rich amount of firms’ accounting information from the Single Information Collecting Centre in Senegal over the period 1998-2011. To investigate the two main obstacles to...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Education
• Environment

Working Paper

The Development under Climate Change research effort provides a basis for determining quantitative impacts on infrastructure from climate change. This paper provides results of an analysis of sea level rise impacts on road infrastructure in Vietnam...

• Environment
• Natural disasters
• Climate change

Working Paper

The paper provides estimates of economic impacts of climate change, compares these with historical impacts of drought spells, and estimates the extent to which the current Moroccan agricultural development and investment strategy, the Plan Maroc Vert...

• Agriculture and state
• Environment
• Global warming

Working Paper

This paper examines the determinants and implied economic impacts of climate change adaptation strategies in the context of traditional pastoralism. It is based on a household level survey in southern Ethiopian rangelands. Pastoralists’ perception of...

• Agriculture
• Global warming
• Climate change

Working Paper

This paper describes the scale and nature of development assistance to projects that sought to improve housing and living conditions for low income groups, including housing-related infrastructure and services such as water supply, sanitation and...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Environment
• Housing

Policy Brief

• Foreign aid
• Climate change
• Environment

Working Paper

Long-run economic development in Ghana is potentially vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change given the country’s dependence on rainfed agriculture, hydropower, and unpaved rural roads. We use a computable general equilibrium model, informed by...

• Environment and economic development
• Environment
• Global warming

Book Chapter

Part of Book Extractive Industries

• Community development
• Corporate social responsibility
• Environment

Working Paper

Many cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America face serious problems managing their wastes. Two of the major problems are the insufficient collection and inappropriate final disposal of wastes. Despite spending increasing resources, many cities –...

• Environment
• Recycling (Waste, etc)
• Finance (Urban economics)

Working Paper

This paper examines the extent to which strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is implemented in Tanzania and whether its implementation is in line with generally practised procedures/criteria. Out of 17 completed SEA, eight cases were purposively...

• Strategic environmental assessment
• Strategic planning
• Sustainable development

Working Paper

This paper explores agricultural performance of Mozambique, its institutional weaknesses, and the underlying factors that underpin an unsatisfactory performance during many decades. We point to the role of systemic political instability and violence...

• Agriculture
• Environment
• Institutions

Working Paper

This paper discusses the political economy of oil in Uganda since the announcement of its discovery in 2006. It focuses on the dynamics of oil revenue generation (pre-commercial production) and expenditure, investor-stakeholder contestation (i.e...

• Environment
• Livelihoods
• Oil

Blog

"We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." – Albert Einstein Economists invariably divide shocks into...

• COVID-19
• Economics
• Shocks

Working Paper

This paper is a review of the institutions and the performance of the agricultural sector in Mozambique, using an analysis table adapted to the assessment of the connections between the institutions and economic development. In the first part...

• Agriculture
• Environment
• Institutions

Book Chapter

Part of Book Who Will Save the Forests?

• Ecology
• Environment

Book Chapter

Part of Book Who Will Save the Forests?

• Environment