Rachel M. Gisselquist - Journal of Development Studies, 2019
The articles in the forthcoming special issue are already available online on full open access. The special issue will be officially published in March 2019, vol. 55, issue 3.
Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and...
Sam Jones, Steven Glover - World Development, 2019
The impact of commercial farms on smallholders in developing countries remains highly controversial. This study draws on four periods of investments in commercial farming in Mozambique to frame an empirical analysis of their contemporary economic spillovers.
We investigate the degree of...
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Heini Salonen - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
The question ‘why is there so little industrialization in Africa?’ has been a key focus of UNU-WIDER researchers and research partners for the last decade. Many Asian economies started their industrialization processes from conditions similar to those that African countries are...
This week I attended the 28th Africa Industrialization Day at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Even sympathetic readers may reasonably ask, why hold another African Industrialization Day at all? The short answer is Africa needs structural change to grow, to create jobs, and to reduce...
Deepak Nayyar - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
Gunnar Myrdal published Asian Drama in 1968, a work which made important analytical contributions to our understanding of development but was deeply pessimistic about Asia’s future prospects.
Since then, contrary to Myrdal’s expectations, Asia’s development has been...
– The case of middle-income countries from the LIS database
Daniele Checchi, Andrej Cupak, Teresa Munzi, Janet Gornick - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
This study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data.
After discussing the main challenges when...
– A microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in Ghana
Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Robert Osei - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
The level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a key determinant of better livelihoods and poverty alleviation. However, in most developing countries education is not accessible to all.
In Ghana—although basic education...
Vanda Castelo, José Cardoso, Finório Castigo, Gemma Wright - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
The tax-benefit microsimulation model developed for Mozambique, MOZMOD, has proved to be valuable in analysing the impacts and budget implications of a new policy proposal in Mozambique. The importance of the tool has also been recognized in the government.
Tax-benefit microsimulation helps to...
– New gas finds, investments, and their implications in Mozambique
UNU-WIDER - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
Large flows of foreign investments have not been translated into a boom for the Mozambican economy. On the contrary, they have foreshadowed a sustained period of deep economic difficulty for the country. What is the story behind this phenomenon and what are its implications?
Mozambique has...
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