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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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From the Editor's Desk (January 2012)
Tony Addison January saw the snow arrive in Helsinki. As I look out across the harbour, the scene is one of various shades of white and grey. The...
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Developing Countries in the WTO RegimeWhen the Uruguay Round was being negotiated and it was coming to a close, a number of estimates were made about the impact of the agreement on poor countries. Many of the assessments indicated that there would be a net loss for them while others came...
Journal Special Issue
South-South and North-South Trade AgreementsIn this special issue, five articles address some of the challenges associated with integrating an existing S-S regional agreement with a new template that results from block negotiations with a northern partner. The compatibility issues this raises...
Book Chapter
Reforming the (non)systemPart of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
Working Paper
The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesWelcoming 60,000 Southeast Asian refugees in the 1979–80 period has become a celebrated part of Canada’s history, but the eventual integration of these refugees into Canadian society has received insufficient attention. This study provides a...
Journal Article
Transmission of World Prices to the Vietnamese EconomyInternational economic integration has been a central policy goal for the Vietnam government since the doi moi reform was initiated in 1986. We explore the Vietnamese increasing integration into the world market and bouts of high inflation. Five...
Working Paper
Reforming the global monetary non-systemThis paper proposes a comprehensive yet evolutionary reform of the global monetary non-system that evolved out of the breakdown of the original Bretton Woods arrangement in the early 1970s. It includes: (i) a global reserve system that mixes the...
Research Brief
Aid and Structural Change in AfricaIt is commonly acknowledged that developing economies are characterized by large differences in output per worker across sectors. For such economies the shift of resources from low productivity to high productivity is the key potential driver of...
Book Chapter
The Impact of Financial Openness on Economic IntegrationPart of Book Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
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Regional Industrialization and Integration in Southern Africa - Reporting from TIPS Annual Forum
The white-painted cluster of traditional style buildings might suggest that this was a farm on the South African veldt. Not so however—it was Trade...
Book Chapter
Component Trade and China's Global Economic IntegrationPart of Book The Rise of China and India
Book Chapter
Finance and GrowthPart of Book Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Book Chapter
Will the Euro Trigger More Monetary Unions in Africa?Part of Book The Impact of EMU on Europe and the Developing Countries
Book Chapter
Variance Decomposition of Macroeconomic Shocks in the Franc Zone and other Sub-Saharan African CountriesPart of Book Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone
Book Chapter
The Characteristics of Macroeconomic Shocks in the Franc ZonePart of Book Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone
Book Chapter
Analysis of the Convergence Process in the UEMOA ZonePart of Book Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone
Book Chapter
How Does Monetary Policy Affect the Poor?Part of Book Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone
Book Chapter
The Effects of Regional IntegrationPart of Book Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Journal Article
How Does Monetary Policy Affect the Poor?Part of Journal Special Issue The CFA Franc Zone 10 Years After Devaluation
Book Chapter
Protectionist Tendencies in the North and Vulnerable Economies in the SouthPart of Book Globalization, Marginalization and Development
Working Paper
Component Trade and China’s Global Economic IntegrationChina’s engagement in the so-called international fragmentation of production – namely ‘cross-border dispersion of component production/assembly within vertically integrated manufacturing industries’ – has become an increasingly important form of its...
Journal Article
Involuntary migration, inequality, and integrationPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Journal Article
The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Working Paper
Geography and Development in AfricaGeography causes African countries to experience a ‘proximity gap’. To overcome this gap a ‘big push’ may be needed in infrastructure. The cross-border nature of such infrastructure requires regional cooperation in at least four issues: transport...
Working Paper
Macropolicy in the Rise and Fall of the Golden AgeThe Golden Age was the era of demand management. Originally with monetary, and then fiscal policy, the governments of the advanced capitalist economies attempted to enhance and guide the accumulation process. They allocated credit, manipulated...
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