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Tony Addison With the ice floes now gone from the harbour outside the UNU-WIDER building, and with the snow replaced by an icy hail, there is a...
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Flow of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries :Part of Book External Finance for Private Sector Development
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Are African Countries Paying Too Much Attention To Agriculture?Luc Christiaensen and Lionel Demery Escalating food prices in 2007-2008, climate change and land grabbing have woken the world up to the extraordinary...
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The Economic Costs of Climate ChangePart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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Pillars of ProsperityBook review on: T. Besley and T. Persson (2011). Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters.Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson embark on a new research agenda in their book ‘Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics...
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Evaluating multiple spatial dimensions of economic growth in Brazil using spatial panel data modelsThe goal of this paper is to evaluate the results of regional economic growth model estimations at multiple spatial scales using spatial panel data models. The spatial scales examined are minimum comparable areas, microregions, mesoregions and states...
Working Paper
The Economic Costs of Climate ChangeUnlike existing studies, we adopt a multi-sectoral approach and consider the full range of climate projections. Biophysical damages are translated into economic costs using a dynamic economywide model. Our results for Vietnam indicate that the...
Research Brief
How Can Aid Help Mitigate the Problem of Overfishing in AfricaDevelopment aid aimed at increasing productivity in the fisheries sector has at times had a negative effect by encouraging or facilitating overfishing. A percentage increase in capacity enhancing or bad subsidies in sub-Sahara Africa, all else being...
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Taxation, Public Expenditure and Aid EffectivenessIn a recent UNU-WIDER working paper 'Fiscal composition and aid effectiveness: A political-economy model' Paul Mosley examines the claim that aid would have, in the long term, a negative impact on productivity and stability of expenditure in...
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Is There a Micro-Macro Paradox in Aid?The question of whether aid is effective in promoting economic growth is a complex and controversial one. While there is a general consensus around the idea that aid can have positive effects at the micro and meso levels, recent studies, such as...
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Pacific Islands' Bilateral TradePart of Journal Special Issue Policy Arena: Small Island Developing States
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Aid, Growth, and DevelopmentThe micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro- and meso-levels, recent literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth literature...
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Aid, Growth, and DevelopmentThe micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth literature...
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Ordinal Bivariate InequalityThis paper introduces a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal bivariate categorical data. In our model, one population is more unequal than another when they have common arithmetic median outcomes and the first can be obtained from the...
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Aid, Political Business Cycles and Growth in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development
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Foreign Aid and Sustainable Fisheries Management in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefited from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades. In the 1990s when evidence emerged that most stocks were overcapitalized and overfished, the effectiveness of fisheries...
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