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What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part I)Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a symptom and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. In part 1 of this two...
Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a symptom and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. In part 1 of this two...
Tony Addison With six months remaining till the end of 2011, it’s time to take a peek into the near future. What can we expect? John Kenneth Galbraith...
Tony Addison 'Birds of a feather flock together', the old saying goes. So too do investors. Today, those investment birds are a depressed lot. The...
by Charles Wyplosz With all the hype in Europe and on financial markets worldwide, what does the birth of the euro mean for the developing and...
by David FieldingMonetary Union in AfricaIn the last ten years, there has been much debate about the economic impact of monetary union, in which...
I’m writing this editorial from Dar es Salaam, while at the 20th anniversary workshop for Tanzania’s REPOA, one of our research partners. UNU-WIDER...
So we have reached April. The year is starting to move fast. I’m writing this from New York, having just participated in an event on the sustainable...
And so we come to the summer Angle. We have just passed the longest day (midsummer) in Helsinki, with 19 or so hours of daylight. The seagulls nesting...
Aid’s future, its history, and its impact were the topics of a policy workshop held by UNU-WIDER in co-operation with the Embassy of Denmark in Dar es...
February found UNU-WIDER busy sending out Calls for Papers on topics ranging from social protection to clean energy to discrimination and affirmative...
by Deepak Nayyar The United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, created at the end of the Second World War, today operate on...
Several countries in Africa – including Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda - have recently discovered large oil and gas or other mineral...
by Stephany Griffith-Jones The appalling attack on September 11th has moved the US administration towards seeking multilateral solutions in the fight...
In monetary policy communication, every word carries weight. Consider this scenario: the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) articulates its stance to...