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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...
Journal Special Issue
Developing Countries in the WTO Regime
– Selected Issues
When 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 Agreements
– Compatibility Issues
In 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 Africa
– A New Agenda
It 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 Integration
– Evidence from Europe and the CIS
Part of Book Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Blog
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 Growth
– An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy
Part 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?
– Evidence from the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Part of Book Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone
Book Chapter
The Effects of Regional Integration
– Impact on Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility, Institutional Quality and Growth for MENA Countries
Part of Book Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction
Journal Article
How Does Monetary Policy Affect the Poor?
– Evidence from the West African Economic and Monetary Union
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
Book Chapter
Economic Polarization Through Trade
– Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico
Part of Book Spatial Inequality 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 integration
– National and subnational influences
Part 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 Africa
– Overview and Implications for Regional Cooperation
Geography 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...
Working Paper
Developing Ireland
– Committing to Economic Openness and Building Domestic Institutional Capabilities
This paper sets out to explain the factors behind Ireland’s exceptional period of economic growth from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s. It suggests that an unbending commitment to economic openness and an on-going effort to establish quality...
Working Paper
Hungary
– The Janus-faced Success Story
This paper offers a broad overview of the Hungarian development strategy over the past two decades. Combining historical and functional analysis, some major strengths and weaknesses are identified, with special emphasis on the country’s open-door...
Working Paper
Emergent Global Information Infrastructure/Global Information Society
– Regime Formation and the Impact on Africa
This paper combines a theoretical perspective on globalization and the information society with a critical usage of international regime theory in order to contribute to a better understanding of the current historical period of transition from an...
Working Paper
Growth and Trade Horizons for Asia
– Long Term Forecasts for Regional Integration
Economic emergence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India has fundamentally altered the economic landscape of Asia and its relation to the global economy. Using the new dynamic global model, we present forecasts for Asian expansion over...
Working Paper
International Integration and Regional Development in ChinaConcerns about the duration of China’s growth and hence the question of a permanent significant contribution of China to world economic growth relate, amongst other things, to the problem of reducing regional disparity in China. While China’s high...
Working Paper
Do Structural Reforms always Succeed?
– Lessons from Brazil
In the last twenty years, Brazil has undergone several attempts of improving sustainable growth through stabilization programmes, and more recently, structural reforms in line with the Washington Consensus Agenda. The results, however, have been...
Working Paper
Measurement of a Multidimentional Index of Globalization and its Impact on Income InequalityIn this paper we present two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate which countries have become most globalized and...
Working Paper
Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration
– National and subnational influences
Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and ‘host-country’ populations. What factors contribute to such variation? What policies and programmes facilitate ‘better’ economic integration? This paper...
Working Paper
Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects
– The Experience of Central Asia
For the Central Asian countries the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to economic disintegration as old coordination mechanisms disappeared and new national borders appeared. This paper analyses why it has been difficult to coordinate aid for...
Working Paper
Finance and Growth
– An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy
This study is an attempt towards an integration of financial development and its effect on the real sector via the transmission mechanism with special reference to developing and emerging market economies. It finds two cointegrating relations between...
Working Paper
Economic Polarization Through Trade
– Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico
The paper analyses the impact trade liberalization and economic integration have had on regional growth and regional disparities in Mexico over the last two decades. It is highlighted that the passage from an import substitution system to membership...
Working Paper
Controlling Asylum Migration to the Enlarged EUWe examine the ways in which candidate countries which are to join the EU in 2004 are responding to increasing asylum migration from the East and assess the impact of accession on their asylum and immigration laws and policies. It will be argued that...
Working Paper
Does Financial Openness Promote Economic Integration?
– Some Evidence from Europe and the CIS
We study whether financial openness facilitates the economic integration of formerly centrally planned economies with the EU-15. Two dimensions of economic integration are considered: cross-country convergence of per-capita incomes and bilateral...
Working Paper
The Effects of (within and with EU) Regional Integration
– Impact on Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility, Institutional Quality and Growth for MENA Countries
We analyse two potential effects arising from regional (and with EU) integration—increased quality of institutions (including the quality of financial institutions) and, economic policies and reduced multilateral exchange rate volatility—in a...
Working Paper
Economic Integration and Migration
– The Mexico-US Case
This paper explains the evolution and effects of Mexico-US migration, and highlights the NAFTA approach to economic integration, viz., free up trade and investment while stepping up efforts to prevent unauthorized migration. The European Union...
Working Paper
Institutional Quality, Reforms and Integration in the MaghrebUsing panel data this paper examines the effects of institutions on the success of reforms and integration in the Maghreb. Institutional quality measures are developed using fuzzy-set based transformations of civil liberties and political rights. We...
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