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Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality

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Report: Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality

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The Political Economy of the Peace Process in a Changing Middle East

  • Economic development
  • Regional economics
  • Social conflict
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Towards a Peaceful Sri Lanka

  • Economic development
  • History of economics
  • Social conflict
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The Burden of Government Debt in the Indian States

In this paper we explore what impact, if any, government debts have on achieving the Millennium Development Goals for the Indian states. To fulfill the goals, national governments, especially in the developing world, have to undertake major...

  • Public debt
  • Economic development
  • Fiscal policy
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Finance and Economic Development in Africa

It is clear that a lot remains to be learnt about the role of the financial sector in African growth and development process. All three papers in this volume focus on the existing consensus in the literature that there seems to be a positive...

  • Economic development
  • Economic growth
  • Finance
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Sectoral Balance

  • Economic development
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Stabilisation and Reform in the Hungarian Economy of the late 1980s

  • Economic development
  • Financial crisis
  • Fiscal policy
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Health Effects of Market-Based Reforms in Developing Countries

Radical and simultaneous economic reforms were implemented in many developing countries, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many of these reforms - structural adjustment programmes - were implemented with...

  • Balance of payments
  • Economic development
  • Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
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Regionalization in Southern Africa

This state of the art paper reviews literature published up to the end of 1994 on economic, security and environmental regionalization in southern Africa. In the field of economic regionalization a distinction is made between three main integration...

  • Economic development
  • International economic relations
  • Regional economics
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Transition and Income Distribution

  • Comparative economics
  • Economic development
  • Equality and inequality
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Trade, Trade Policy and Industrialization Reconsidered

  • Commercial policy
  • Economic development
  • Industrialization
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Trends in International Cooperation and Net Resource Transfers to Developing Countries

  • Capital market
  • Economic assistance and foreign aid
  • Economic development
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The World Economic and Financial Crisis

  • Budget deficits
  • Economic development
  • Economic integration
Blog
What Can Developing Countries Learn From Finland’s Industrial Transformation?
by Markus Jäntti, Juhana Vartiainen October 2009

Markus Jäntti and Juhana Vartiainen Finland is an example of a late but successful state-led industrialization that was carried out rapidly. The...

  • Economic development
  • Economic policy
  • Income distribution
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China and India’s Development Strategies: Lessons for Developing Countries
by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Guanghua Wan October 2010

Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan China and India have become global economic powers. Even at the market exchange rate, China overtook Japan...

  • Economic development
  • Poverty measurement
  • Industrial policy
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Vulnerability in Developing Countries
by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray September 2009

Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray The global economic crisis, which erupted about one year ago with the US sub-prime mortgage...

  • Economic development
  • Poverty measurement
  • Households
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Development Strategies

Part of Book Achieving Development Success

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  • Economic policy
  • Technological innovations
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