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Part of Journal Special Issue
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
Journal Article
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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...
Research Brief
– Exploring the Fatal Flaw
Aid to Haiti has not been effective due to failure of the country’s political and economic elites to participate and assist in the development process. US foreign policy has in some cases reinforced the tendency for elites to personally profit from aid initiatives. Haiti has received more than US$20...
Journal Article
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
Part of Journal Special Issue
Aid Impact and Effectiveness
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– When Aid Volatility Matters and When it Does Not
Part of Journal Special Issue
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?
Part of Journal Special Issue
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
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
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...
Journal Article
– The Current Situation
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Developing Countries in the WTO Regime
– What are the challenges?
Diversifying the agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa is important for the combat against poverty and climate change. In Malawi there are plans for legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp, which would at best bring possibilities for Malawi and South Africa to complement each other in...
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