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Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
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– What Do We Know? What Can Comparative Analysis Add?
Part of Journal Special Issue
Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States
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– comparing Indonesia and Nigeria
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Aid to Support Fragile States
Journal Article
This study investigates the effect of trade liberalisation on export growth, import growth, the trade balance and the current account of the balance of payments in 17 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) over the period 1970 to 2001. The paper also assesses the marginal relation between capital flows (e...
Journal Article
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Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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This position paper on Aid, Governance, and Fragility was prepared by UNUWIDER under the ReCom programme of Research (Re) and Communication (Com) on foreign aid. It aims to provide an up-to-date overview and guide to two topics of central importance to international development: governance and fragility. This discussion is grounded in the central questions of the ReCom programme: What works, what could work, what is scalable, and what is transferable in foreign aid? We also consider the related question, what does not work?Governance and fragility are sometimes treated as entirely separate...
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– When Aid Volatility Matters and When it Does Not
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Development Aid
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– Its Design and Use for International Development Policy
Part of Journal Special Issue
Vulnerability in Development
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– What Role for the African Regional Organizations in Peace and Security?
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Conflict and Peace-building
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– An institutionalist approach
Part of Journal Special Issue
Aid to Support Fragile States
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Conflict and Peace-building
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Conflict and Peace-building
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This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
– Are LDCs being left behind?
The study paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on global poverty in the light of IMF’s growth forecasts. It shows that the pandemic will erode many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction. Our baseline case suggests that globally the number of...
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Reducing or writing off the debts of the 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) can potentially reduce social conflict by releasing resources from debt-service to enable governments to make fiscal transfers that lower the grievances of rebels (when conflict is partly rooted in grievances over...
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– The Current Situation
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Developing Countries in the WTO Regime
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