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– Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance
IN PRODUCTION: SCHEDULED FOR PUBLICATION IN JUNE 2024This study outlines the origins and evolution of an international award-winning development intervention, index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), which scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management...
– Impact, Recovery and the Future
A key challenge for the post-COVID global economy is whether the disproportionate impact of the crisis on informal workers, who form the majority of the world’s workforce, will be acknowledged. Or whether harmful and negative stereotypes will persist.Today, despite the role of these essential...
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From the book:
Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800
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Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800
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From the book:
Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800
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From the book:
Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800
Book Chapter
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
From the book:
Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800
Book Chapter
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
From the book:
Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800
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Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800
– Economic Transformation in a Climate-Conscious World
The pathways to economic development are changing. Environmental sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy. Just like in nature, where survival hinges on adaptation, this publication shows how nations adjust to, and take advantage of...
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Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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From the book:
Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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From the book:
Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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From the book:
Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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From the book:
Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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Upgrading and multi-scalar industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sector value chain
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Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
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Sustaining Tanzania's Economic Development
– A firm and household perspective
This book addresses performance and strategies adopted by firms and households in Tanzania to navigate shocks and achieve sustainability. How successful have firms and households been in building resilience to sustain their growth and development? Has the ability to navigate successfully through...
The focus of this study is the idea that choice is hierarchical so that there exists an order of acquisition of durable goods and assets as real incomes increase. Two main approaches to deriving such an order are presented, the so-called Paroush approach and Item Response Theory. An empirical...
– A Framework for Rethinking the Role of Finance in Serving the Real Economy
The study proposes an alternative framework for rethinking the role of finance in serving the real economy from the perspective of New Structural Financial Economics. It challenges conventional wisdom that developing countries should take the financial structure of developed countries as the...
– Interrogating the Present as History
This study highlights the monopolization and exclusion from high-value knowledge in analysing divergent and, recently, partially convergent income trends across 200-odd years of the global capitalist economy. A southern lens interrogates this history, in the process showing how developing command...
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Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism
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Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism
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Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism
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Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism
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Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism
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– Chilean economic development under neoliberalism
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Chilean Economic Development under Neoliberalism
– Structural Transformation, High Inequality and Environmental Fragility
This publication examines the process of economic development of the last 50 years or so under the neoliberal model in terms of impacts on growth, inflation, income and wealth distribution and structural change. The analysis includes a historical perspective from the nineteenth century to the...
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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– The Restricted Capacity of the Judicial System
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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– Institutional Causes
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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– Perceptions of Institutional Constraints
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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Mozambique at a Fork in the Road
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– The Institutional Diagnostic Project
Few countries have experienced as many political and economic changes as Mozambique. A vast and diverse country, it faced a particularly difficult start after a long period of colonial dominance followed by a deadly war that formally ended only in 1992. However, despite impressive growth after multi...
It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with sub-Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural changes...
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– A comparative assessment of data and performance
In this chapter, we conceptualise an ideal framework that captures three reinforcing levers for measuring local government performance in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Ghana, namely policy pronouncement, political processes and internal operations, and policy implementation. Given data...
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Chapter in book: Wives and Widows at Work: Women’s Labour in Agrarian Bengal, Then and Now Compared with most other Indian states, women’s reported work participation rates have historically been low in West Bengal. This trend is more prominent in rural areas. Historians have tried to explain this...
– Patterns, Determinants, Consequences
One of the key features of modern economic growth is the process of structural transformation, which is the movement of workers from agriculture to manufacturing and services. In this study, the author identifies different routes to structural transformation that we see in the developing world. They...
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