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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
  • Aid effectiveness
  • Aid and growth
  • Development aid
Journal Article
Aid Impact and Effectiveness

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Donors
  • Fragile states
  • Climate change
Journal Article
Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries

How do shifts in trade affect social protections for the poor? Although the fraction of the world's population considered the “extreme” poor has fallen by over one-half over the past quarter century, many of those lifted above the global poverty line...

  • Globalization and Trade
  • Social protection
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Globalization and the obstacles to the successful integration of small vulnerable economies

Theme: 2000-01

A key challenge for policy makers is how to bring about the successful integration of the less developed countries into the international system. Many of the obstacles to the meaningful participation of vulnerable developing economies in the...

  • Globalization and Trade
Working Paper
Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries

How do shifts in trade affect social protections for the poor? Although the fraction of the world’s population considered the ‘extreme’ poor has fallen by over one-half over the past quarter century, many of those lifted above the global poverty line...

  • Globalization and Trade
  • Social protection
Blog
Precarization or protection? How labour policies influence the effects of globalization on informality
by Lourenço S. Paz, Rita K. Almeida, Jennifer P. Poole May 2021

Globalization has generally coincided with a rise in work outside the formal economy, intensifying job precarization — when high-quality, formal jobs...

  • Precarity
  • Labour market outcomes
  • Informality
Policy Brief
Aid effectiveness

The questions of whether aid has impact and is effective have been the subject of considerable attention. This thematic issue brings together nine studies that speak to the diverse ways in which aid affects development outcomes including, but not...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Aid and growth
  • Development aid
Workshop
UNU-WIDER and UNU-CRIS International Workshop on South-South and North-South Trade Agreements: Compatibility Issues

South-South reciprocal trade agreements continue to surge in popularity despite arguments that they are a sub-optimal trade choice relative to North-South agreements or non-discriminatory trade liberalization. S-S agreements include both new...

5 November 2009 – 6 November 2009
Bruges, Belgium
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UNU-WIDER & UNU-CRIS Joint Session on South-South Integration in a North-South Context: Regional and Global Integration: Quo Vadis?

UNU-WIDER & UNU-CRIS Joint Session (Parallel 1.1) to be held on Saturday, 16 January, South-South Integration in a North-South Context.

13 January 2010 – 19 January 2010
Prague, Czechia
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South-South development cooperation

Theme: 2008-09

  • Globalization and Trade
  • Development financing
  • Capital flows
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Southern engines of global growth

Theme: 2006-07

The project centers on the inter-linkages between the major developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s growth on smaller economies and the rest of the...

  • Globalization and Trade
  • Growth
  • Trade
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Financial sector development for growth and poverty reduction

Theme: 2004-05

The mobilization of domestic savings for private investment plays a crucial role in achieving growth and poverty reduction; this is demonstrated by the historical experience of the now developed countries as well as East Asia. However two problems...

  • Globalization and Trade
Project
Impact of globalization on the world's poor

Theme: 2004-05

Globalization offers new opportunities for accelerating development and poverty reduction. And there is much concern about the distribution of benefits; in particular whether the poor gain from globalization, and under what circumstances it may...

  • Globalization and Trade
  • Globalization
  • Poverty
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Refugees, international migration and poverty

Theme: 2000-01

Fleeing poverty, violence and 'ethnic cleansing' millions of people leave their homes every year in search of safety and economic opportunities. In contrast to the migrations of the nineteenth century today's migrations often take place through...

  • Globalization and Trade
Project
The impact of the WTO agreement on low income countries

Theme: 2002-03

When the Uruguay Round was being negotiated and it was coming to a close, a number of estimates were made about the impact of the agreement on poor countries. Many assessments indicated that there would be a net loss for them while others came up...

  • Globalization and Trade
Project
Information technology - growth and employment

Theme: 1998-99

It is a widely held opinion among policy-makers and social scientists that the so-called 'information revolution' is having a substantial impact on the world economy. It is often also presumed that this impact is beneficial to all those countries...

  • Globalization and Trade
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