Working Paper

This paper aims to assess the impact that the impoverishment process has had on IPD health dynamics and micronutrient-related morbidity via the changes which have occurred in food consumption in terms of average intake, its distribution and the...

• Consumption
• Economic conditions
• Health

Working Paper

This paper, a draft from the early stages of an ongoing UNU/WIDER research project, outlines hypotheses for the economic cause of humanitarian disasters. Complex humanitarian emergencies are considered to be man-made crises, in which large numbers of...

• Economic conditions
• Elite (Social sciences)
• Natural resources

Working Paper

This paper draws on both successful and failing cases of industrialization in China to analyse the role of local governments in fostering the growth of light manufacturing. The broad spectrum of support types and the intimate knowledge of enterprise...

• Economic conditions
• Industrial policy
• Industrialization

Working Paper

Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness of conscious direction. In this paper, I develop a model to study giving behaviours under conditions of implicit bias. I test this model by implementing a novel laboratory experiment—a...

• Economic conditions
• Field experiments

Working Paper

The study seeks to identify donor-specific factors that cause donors to delay aid disbursement, and to apply a double standard in dealing with the non-compliance of a recipient with regard to aid conditionalities, a practice that promotes uncertainty...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic conditions
• International relations

Working Paper

This paper attempts to answer the following question: If the HIPC Initiative is fully successful and managed to write-off all debt that is owed by Africa, will the debt problem be over? The answer is ‘no’. This pessimist answer is arrived at by...

• Public debt
• Economic conditions
• International trade

Working Paper

This paper seeks to analyze the prospects for development in a changed international context, where globalization has diminished the policy space so essential for countries that are latecomers to development. The main theme is that, to use the...

• Democracy
• Economic conditions
• Economic development

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Sustainability of External Development Finance

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic conditions
• International relations

Working Paper

Three changes in conditionality of loans are proposed in this study, in order to improve the relations between developing country borrowers and international lending agencies, and make the international cooperative effort at development and stability...

• Economic conditions
• Economic policy
• Foreign loans

Working Paper

• Agriculture
• Cooperative societies
• Economic conditions

Journal Article

Implicit associations and biases are carried without awareness or conscious direction, yet there is reason to believe they may be influenced by social pressures. In this paper, I study social pressure as a motive to give, as well as giving itself...

• Economic conditions
• Field experiment

Book Chapter

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa is a definitive and comprehensive account of the key issues and topics affecting Africa's ability to grow and develop. It includes 53 thematic and 48 country perspectives by a veritable who's who of...

• Economic conditions
• Economic development
• Economic policy

Working Paper

Institutions are altered by conflict, depending on the scale, duration and type of war. At one extreme, formal political, social and economic institutions may be completely destroyed (e.g. Somalia), while the importance and type of informal...

• Economic conditions
• Informal sector
• Institutional economics

Working Paper

Differences in economic and theological approaches to debt cancellation result from differences in disciplinary assumptions in respect of purpose, method, and argument. We argue that they provide alternative commentaries upon the need for debt...

• Public debt
• Economic conditions
• International relations

Working Paper

Since October 2000 Israel and the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have become entangled in a bloody confrontation. This paper focuses on the economic relationship between the Israeli economy and the Palestinian economy of the West Bank...

• Conflict management
• Economic conditions
• International economic relations

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Explaining Violent Conflict

• Conflict management
• Economic conditions
• Global warming