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Millennium Development Goals in Turbulent Times: Emerging Challenges for Post-2015 MDGsRolph van der Hoeven and Peter van Bergeijk One of the most important trends that emerged since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...
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Youth Unemployment in the Arab World: What Do We know? What is the Way Forward?
Imed Drine Many observers see youth unemployment as the major reason behind the recent popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries. Increasing...
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From the Editor's desk (November 2011)
Tony Addison As we come to the end of November, the snow has yet to arrive in Helsinki. We continue to enjoy clear skies and spectacular sunsets...
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Can Cities or Towns Drive African Development?Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture’s relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African...
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Market Size, Linkages, and ProductivityOne account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this for 40 regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region’s own size, as well as cost linkages between producers...
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How Macroeconomic Instability Lowers Child SurvivalThe reduction of child mortality is one of the most universally accepted Millennium Goals. However, there is a significant debate on the means of reaching it and its realism with regard to the situation in most of the least developed countries. The...
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Export Productivity and Specialization in China, Brazil, India and South AfricaThis paper analyses the patterns of export productivity and trade specialization profiles in the China, Brazil, India and South Africa, and in other regional groupings. In doing so, the investigation calculates a time varying export productivity...
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Export Productivity, Finance, and Economic GrowthUsing a panel of 139 countries over the period 1992-2003, we analyse the links between export productivity, economic growth and financial development indicators. We then investigate whether the links observed in China, India and Brazil systematically...
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A New Fiscal Pact, Tax Policy Changes and Income InequalityThe paper analyses the changes in tax policy, tax/GDP ratios, tax incidence and income inequality which have taken place in Latin America during the last decade against the background of the changes observed in these variables during the liberal...
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Global Inequality
by Richard Jolly The gap between rich and poor nations is now at its highest ever level. OECD Research by Angus Maddison shows that differences in...
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Globalization, Marginalization and Development
by S. Mansoob Murshed The WIDER research project on 'Globalization and the Obstacles to the Successful Integration of Vulnerable Economies' is...
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Where do we Stand a Decade After the Collapse of the USSR?
by Vladimir Popov The economic performance of the successor states of the former Soviet Union (FSU) has been disappointing. GDP has fallen by roughly...
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Tax Policy and Income Distribution during the Last DecadePart of Book Falling Inequality in Latin America
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Can Cities or Towns Drive African Development? Economy-wide Analysis for Ethiopia and UgandaRapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture’s relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African...
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Déterminants de l'Endettement Extérieur des PPTEIn the 1980s most of Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA) especially the HIPCs faced an unprecedented indebtedness. Different mechanisms of debt relief as well as economic reforms have been put in place with the objective of enabling these countries...
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Hunting for LeopardsThis paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. We are primarily interested in examining how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. We analyse changes in the...
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