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UNU-WIDER Interview with Dr Kaushik Basu
by November 2012

29 November 2012 Carl-Gustav Lindén In November 2012 UNU-WIDER had the pleasure of hosting a public event with Dr Kaushik Basu, the newly appointed...

  • Financial crisis
  • International finance
  • Macroeconomics
Blog
The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid
by Tony Addison, Tseday Mekasha, Milla Nyyssölä, Lucy Scott, Finn Tarp, Tuuli Paukkeri January 2012

Tony Addison, Tseday Mekasha, Milla Nyyssölä, Lucy Scott, Finn Tarp, Tuuli Ylinen To meet development objectives, aid recipients and their donor...

  • Economic assistance and foreign aid
  • Economic development
  • Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Research Brief
Debt

​In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, debt crises have plagued low-, middle-, and high-income countries at various times. Indebted countries have generally addressed balance of payments crises either by (a) obtaining International...

  • Public debt
  • Economic growth
  • Financial institutions, International
Research Brief
Policy processes and the global food price crisis 2007-08

The recent food price crisis and the responses of the policy makers in developing countries provide an unprecedented opportunity to analyse the policy processes in these countries. Policy responses differed depending on the nature and magnitude of...

  • Accounting
  • Aeronautics
  • Agriculture
Working Paper
Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development

Drawing on recent literature, the paper argues that institutions and political economy factors hold the key to understanding why some countries have succeeded in developing their financial systems while others have not. The paper also reviews new...

  • Econometric models (Economic development)
  • Finance infrastructure
  • Macroeconomics
Working Paper
The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus

The present paper utilises a short-run theoretical macroeconomic model of a small open economy to look at the impact of macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain...

  • Mathematical models (Equilibrium (Economics))
  • Informal sector
  • Macroeconomics
Working Paper
A Macro Policy for Poverty Eradication through Structural Change

This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector...

  • Economic development
  • Informal sector
  • Macroeconomics
Working Paper
Financial Sector Structure and Financial Crisis Burden

We consider an overlapping generations model with two production factors and two types of agents in the presence of financial intermediation and its application to the Russian default of August 1998. The paper focuses on the analysis of the...

  • Financial crisis
  • Finance infrastructure
  • Macroeconomics
Working Paper
Economic Growth and Financial Depth

Although the finance–growth nexus has become firmly entrenched in the empirical literature, studies that question the strength of the empirical results have appeared and seem to have become more frequent as well. In this paper we re-examine the core...

  • Econometric models (Economic development)
  • Finance infrastructure
  • Macroeconomics
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Examining Private Investment Heterogeneity

We investigate domestic private investment behaviour in a panel of 24 low-income and middle-income countries spanning a period of 1981-2000. The paper rigorously addresses (i) the cross-country heterogeneity in private investment behaviour, and (ii)...

  • Econometric models (Economic development)
  • Finance infrastructure
  • Investments
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The Macroeconomic Repercussions of Agricultural Shocks and their Implications for Insurance

The paper considers the macroeconomic impact of shocks to agricultural output and of negative and positive price shocks. It is shown that negative price shocks have particularly large externalities: it is estimated that the overall impact of these...

  • Agriculture
  • Insurance
  • Macroeconomics
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Taxes and Tax Reform in Ethiopia, 1990-2004

In 1991 the Ethiopian Revolution Democratic Front (EPRDF) toppled the old ‘socialist’ regime that had ruled the country for seventeen years. In contrast to the previous policy regime of hard control, EPRDF initiated a wide range of reforms that...

  • Fiscal policy
  • Income distribution
  • Macroeconomics
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Poverty and the Welfare Costs of Risk Associated with Globalization

‘Globalization’ implies change, and uncertainty over future change may affect household welfare. We use data on Lorenz curves over the last fifty years for a sample of 53 (mostly developing) countries. Treating each country-quintile-year as an...

  • Consumption
  • Econometric models (Economic development)
  • Globalization
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It Works; It Doesn't; It Can, But that Depends...

This paper surveys 50 years of empirical research on the macroeconomic impact of aid, looking mainly at studies examining the link between aid and growth. It argues that studies dating until the late 1990s produced either contradictory or...

  • Economic assistance and foreign aid
  • Econometric models (Economic development)
  • Macroeconomics
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The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction in Lebanon

This paper studies the postwar economic and political reconstruction in Lebanon. The paper shows that the ‘reconstruction boom’ was short-lived. The economy experienced a growth trap early in the reconstruction period, and entered a cyclical crisis...

  • Distribution
  • Public expenditures
  • Fiscal policy
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Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe

This paper offers a substantive contribution to the debate on the role of international trade on the development of emerging countries. The aim is to detect empirically the phenomenon of vulnerability induced by trade openness. The methodology adopts...

  • Econometric models (Economic development)
  • International trade
  • Macroeconomics
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