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From the Editor’s Desk (September 2012)
Tony Addison Mid-September finds UNU-WIDER very busy preparing for our big conference on climate change and development policy that takes place later...
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Urban Service Delivery in Africa and the World BankVarious studies have shown that there is a positive correlation between urban population levels and gross national income. As such the growth of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa may have a positive impact on the region’s economic...
Research Brief
Divided Authority in Kampala, UgandaFavouritism of government controlled councils is most distinct through interference in local politics rather than through funding mechanisms. The motivation of central government intervention in land deals is two-fold - their actions can be...
Research Brief
The Unintended Consequences of Foreign Aid in TanzaniaTanzania has been a relative success story in terms of African political reform. In the early 1990s Tanzania shifted from a one-party to a multiparty system, allowed greater freedoms for the press and civil society, and in 1995 held its first...
Journal Article
Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in ChinaPart of Journal Special Issue Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia
Book Chapter
Donor Assistance and Political Reform in TanzaniaPart of Book Democratic Trajectories in Africa
Journal Article
Opposition Politics and Urban Service Delivery in Kampala, UgandaPart of Journal Special Issue Urban Governance and Service Delivery in sub-Saharan Africa
Book Chapter
Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in ChinaPart of Book Spatial Disparities in Human Development
Working Paper
Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in ChinaChina’s current fiscal system is largely decentralized while its governance structure is rather centralized with strong top-down mandates and a homogenous governance structure. Due to large differences in initial economic structures and revenue bases...
Working Paper
Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in ChinaThis paper constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late...
Working Paper
A Review of Welfare Changes in Asian Transitional EconomiesIn examining the welfare situation, this paper explores the relationship between economic changes and social development in Asian transition economies. Under the central planning system, achievements in human development in these countries were...
Working Paper
A Review of Social Policy Implementation in Nigeria with Emphasis on EducationThis paper presents a brief history of social services provision in Nigeria with special reference to education. It argues that the problems of implementation of social policies are due to state monopolies; the negative effects of structural...
Working Paper
Diverse Property Forms within Planned or Partly Planned EconomiesThis Working Paper discusses mixed systems in which SMEs functioned successfully in the presence of extensive state ownership of large enterprises and even classical central planning. Past and present examples are considered in which a small...
Working Paper
Feeding ChinaChina's approach to feeding its 22 per cent of the world population has varied considerably during the 36 years of the People's Republic, and so have the results. In the late 1970s its leadership began repudiating much of the country's earlier...
Working Paper
Regional Development and Government Policy In China's Transitional EconomyThis paper examines the causes and consequences of the increase in regional disparities in China during its economic transition towards a 'socialist market economy'. Part 1 seeks to explain why the 'Core' provinces in southeast China have...
Working Paper
KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan is one of the poorer countries undergoing transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. Unlike its neighbour Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan followed a rather radical reform strategy, introduced liberal macroeconomic reforms and large...
Working Paper
The Road to the Market in North KoreaNorth Korea's economic reform began in the mid-1980s. It was motivated by the increasing seriousness of the problems typical of centrally planned socialist economies.In general, the country's reforms have so far been limited both in scope and depth...
Book Chapter
Market-Based Reforms and Changes in China's Health Care SystemPart of Book Social Provision in Low-Income Countries
Book Chapter
The Tortuous Road to the Market in North KoreaPart of Book Transition and Institutions
Journal Article
Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in ChinaPart of Journal Special Issue WIDER Symposium on Analyzing the Socioeconomic Consequences of Rising Inequality in China
Book
Going GlobalThe transition of the former socialist and otherwise centrally planned economies into the world trading and financial system has become a major concern to both policymakers and social scientists. In this book experts from diverse economies address...
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