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Tony Addison
Chief Economist and Deputy Director
Tony Addison is Chief Economist and Deputy Director of the UN University's World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland. He was previously Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester; Executive Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester (from 2006-2009); Associate Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC); and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER.
His books include: From Conflict to Recovery in Africa (Oxford University Press), Making Peace Work: The Challenges of Economic and Social Reconstruction (Palgrave Macmillan), and Poverty Dynamics: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective (Oxford University Press). He was a lead author for The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09: Escaping Poverty Traps. Tony Addison is editor of WIDERAngle.
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Book Chapter
ConclusionsFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Mining Extractive industries Climate changeBook Chapter
Climate change and the extractives sectorFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Extractive industries Climate change Environment and climateBook Chapter
The regulation of extractives: An overviewFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Regulation Extractive industries MiningBook Chapter
Extractives for development: Introduction and ten main messagesFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Oil and gas Resource revenues MiningBook
Extractive Industries: The Management of Resources as a Driver of Sustainable DevelopmentEarly view: When published this book will become Open Access...
Resource revenues Climate change MiningWorking Paper
Climate change and the extractives sectorThe extractives industries must adjust their operations to shifting patterns of demand for oil, natural gas, and coal together with metals and minerals – as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy, t...
Extractives Oil Natural gasPanel discussion
Global Solutions Summit 2018The Global Solutions Summit 2018, held on May 28 and 29 in Berlin, Germany was organised by the Global Solutions Initiative . The summit addressed major G20 topics including the future of work, infrastructure for sustainable development, food...
Journal Article
Introduction: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic DevelopmentPart of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
tax policy Economic development Developing countriesJournal Special Issue
Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic DevelopmentThis journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place, as an introduction to this United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Rese...
Fiscal policy Economic development TaxationWorking Paper
Fiscal policy, state building and economic developmentThis paper presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place over the past three decades...
tax policy Economic development Developing countriesPolicy Brief
The death of aid has often been declared, and private capital flows as well as earnings from natural resources now far exceed official development assistance (ODA) in aggregate...
Foreign aid Macroeconomics Tax revenueJournal Article
Inequality: Measurement, trends, impacts and policiesPart of Journal Special Issue Inequality
Developing countries Inequality PovertyJournal Special Issue
Inequality: Measurement, trends, impacts and policiesMany low- and middle-income countries are achieving good rates of economic growth, while high inequality remains a priority concern...
Inequality Economic growth PovertyNews
Tony Addison speaks on extractives industries and development during Mozambican MPs’ visit to Finnish parliamentUNU-WIDER Chief Economist-Deputy Director, Tony Addison , presented on the extractives industries and development during the exchange visit of the 5th Commission of the Parliament of Mozambique to Finland on 14 November 2017. Tony Addison presenting...
Extractives MozambiqueWorking Paper
Development and poverty in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper puts sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development into perspective...
Sub-Saharan Africa Economic development TransformationJournal Article
Aid, the Real Exchange Rate and Why Policy Matters: The Cases of Morocco and TunisiaPart of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid
Macroeconomics Foreign aid