Blog
Urbanization and Development: The Big Questions
Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen In October the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted the launch of Urbanization and Development...
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Malawi's Farm Subsidy Benefits the Poor but Doesn't Come Cheap
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Channing Arndt, Karl Pauw, James Thurlow
September 2015
Malawi’s farm input subsidy benefits the poor and can be part of a viable national development strategy. Agriculture is Malawi’s main economic sector...
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How to Achieve Structural Transformation in Developing Economies? — An Interview with C. Peter Timmer
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Roger Williamson
January 2015
In this interview C. Peter Timmer, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, reflects on the conditions of possibility of structural transformation in...
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Financial Development and Income Inequality in Rural China
by
Zhicheng Liang
December 2008
Zhicheng Liang The Chinese economy has experienced impressive growth over the last two decades. However, this rapid growth has been accompanied by...
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From the Editor's Desk (June 2013)
29 June 2013 Tony Addison The June-July summer issue of Angle comes to you amid the 19 hours daylight of the Finnish mid-summer. Last week UNU-WIDER’s...
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From the Editor's Desk (March 2013)
Tony Addison This month saw UNU-WIDER in Stockholm for the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which took place at Sida on 13 March...
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Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks: Findings from Melanesia
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Simon Feeny
December 2013
9 December 2013 Simon Feeny Vulnerability and resilience are very closely related terms. Vulnerability is usually referred to as the likelihood of...
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Getting into a State?
by
Roger Williamson
October 2013
30 October 2013 Roger Williamson The UNU-WIDER meeting held last week in New York on the topic of fragility and aid argued forcefully that you cannot...
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From the Editor’s Desk (November 2012)
Tony Addison This month saw the visit of Kaushik Basu, the World Bank’s new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, to...
Policy seminar
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Vietnam: A Rising Dragon on the Move
Wed, 5 August 2015
Central Institute for Economic Management, Main Hall,
68 Phan Dinh Phung Str. Ba Dinh,
Hanoi,
Vietnam
Past event
Project meeting
Political economy of food price policy
This was the third and final meeting of participants in the Political Economy of Food Price Policy project, which is jointly led by UNU-WIDER, Cornell University, and the University of Copenhagen and partially supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates...
Tue, 10 July 2012
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Thu, 12 July 2012
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) at University of Copenhagen,
Nørregade 10,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Past event
Workshop
Second project workshop of the political economy of food price policy
Collaborating Institutions in this project were Cornell University and the University of Copenhagen. Please refer to the research page for more information: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy.
Fri, 24 February 2012
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Sat, 25 February 2012
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA),
Menelik II Ave,
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
Past event
Workshop
The political economy of food price policy
Please refer to the The Political Economy of Food Price Policy project page for more information.
Mon, 4 April 2011
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Tue, 5 April 2011
Institute of Food and Resource Economics (FOI) at University of Copenhagen,
Nørregade 10,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Past event