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Journal Article
Can Business Rights Alleviate Group-Based Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

Blog
How Africa can fight the pandemic
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The response to Africa’s COVID-19 plight must be swift and at scale rather than too little, too late. In a world short of progressive global...

Policy Brief
Migration governance in the Global South

Building knowledge about migration governance and policy in the Global South is a priority for research and policy. Migration is a defining feature of our time and one closely linked with processes of economic and political development. Sustainable...

Working Paper
Linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya

In recent decades, the impact of South African foreign direct investment in Africa has been captured by research and policy. This paper investigates linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya. The...

Project
Land inequality and decentralized governance in LDCs

Theme: 2010-11

Project
Falling inequality in Latin America – evidence from the last decade and prospects for the future

Theme: 2010-11

Project
The Middle East, North Africa, and climate change

Theme: 2010-11

Sustaining development in developing countries has never been as complicated a task as it is today in the face of a world characterized by tremendous competition over resources that are becoming scarcer. Climate change and its impact on water...

Policy Brief
Experiments in government performance
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 4 - Globalization and Appropriate Governance

Globalization has come in for indiscriminate attack from critics who do not distinguish between different types of globalization (e.g. freer trade, freer capital flows, freer direct investment, and freer immigration) or between very different but...

27 November 2000
Assembly House of the Estates (Säätytalo), Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki, Finland
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Symposium on the Interface of Academic Research and Government Policy

6 December 2013 – 11 December 2013
Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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