Working Paper

• Capital assets pricing model
• Capital market
• Economic policy

Book Chapter

Part of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

• Financial institutions
• International
• International agencies

Journal Special Issue

Following on WIDER's work on Development Finance which has involved three projects since 2002, a development conference on 'Aid: Principles, Policies and Performance' was organized in June 2006. Aid is one of the most challenging development issues...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• International finance

Journal Special Issue

The real value of official aid flows fell for much of the 1990s, and private capital flows to low-income countries remain mostly limited. The decline in aid flows may endanger the development process, since they finance much of the development budget...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International finance

Journal Special Issue

The real value of official aid flows fell for much of the 1990s, and private capital flows to low-income countries remain mostly limited. The decline in aid flows may endanger the development process, since they finance much of the development budget...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International economic relations
• International finance

Journal Special Issue

As one of globalisation's most visible dimensions, foreign direct investment (FDI) is central to the prospects for developing countries in the world economy. Key issues include the direction of causation between FDI and growth, the potential role of...

• Economic development
• International finance
• Foreign investments

Journal Special Issue

The present paper serves as an introduction to this special issue providing a justification for, and linking and introducing to the articles that follow. A central message emanating from the papers included in this special issue is that it is not...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development projects
• Government spending policy

Working Paper

This paper analyses three major problems of the current international monetary system: the asymmetric-adjustment problem, dependence on the monetary policy of the main reserve-issuing country, and the large demand for self-insurance by developing...

• Financial institutions, International
• International agencies
• International finance

Working Paper

The paper considers the political obstacles and supports for additional development finance and a number of possible devices through which advantage may be taken of the supports and the obstacles circumvented. It emphasizes the need for effective...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Globalization

Working Paper

In analysing proposals for new sources of development funding, there are several issues that arise across the board. What is the role of new sources in relation to existing overseas development assistance? Should we be seeking new sources that...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Public finance
• Fiscal policy

Working Paper

Remittances, after foreign direct investment, are currently the most important source of external finance to developing countries. Remittances surpass foreign aid, and tend to be more stable than such volatile capital flows as portfolio investment...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Emigrant remittances
• International finance

Working Paper

Much has changed in international finance in the twenty years since UNU-WIDER was founded. This paper identifies five broad contours of what we might expect in the next twenty years: the flow of capital from ageing societies to the more youthful...

• Capital market
• Economic development
• International finance

Working Paper

The level, tenor and instability of capital flows from global financial markets towards developing countries are a major source of concern for macroeconomic managers, while their causes remain largely unexplained by economic theory. Country...

• Capital market
• International finance
• Risk management

Blog

by Wim Naudé February 2009

Wim Naudé Following the US subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2008, the world is now staggering from financial to economic crisis as many high-income...

• Economic development
• Economic policy
• Financial crisis

Policy Brief

This policy brief is intended to outline suggestions and stimulate discussion at a time when the world community is thinking about, and is engaged in, a debate on global governance. The policy brief not only focuses on the reform of existing...

• International agencies
• International finance
• International relations

Policy Brief

As a result of the Five Year Review of the World Summit for Social Development, the UN General Assembly in September 2000 adopted a resolution calling for 'a rigorous analysis of the advantages, disadvantages and other implications of proposals for...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• International agencies