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97 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

Blog

Making Finance the Servant not the Master

by Tony Addison February 2012

Tony Addison Today, there is much frustration with the financial sector. Society’s precious savings are not being put to the best of uses—investing...

Blog

Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development: Looking at the MDGs from a Different Angle?

by George Mavrotas January 2009

George Mavrotas While recent years have witnessed new interest in the finance–growth nexus, the relationship between domestic resource mobilization...

Working Paper

Impact of Income and Non-Income Shocks on Child Labour

This paper investigates the impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour using a model in which the household maximizes utility from consumption as well as human capital development of the child. Two types of shocks are considered...

Journal Special Issue

Impact of the Liberalization of the Exchange Rate and Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

This special issue of the Journal of International Development presents the results of a study initiated two years ago by UNU/WIDER on `The impact of the liberalization of the exchange rate and financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa'. The project...

A survey of the changing relationship between the market for political services and the market for financial services.

Book Chapter

A brief history of the international monetary system since Bretton Woods

Part of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

Book Chapter

The provision of global liquidity: the global reserve system

Part of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

Book Chapter

Global monetary co-operation and the exchange rate system

Part of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

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Capital account liberalization and management

Part of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

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The governance of the international monetary system

Part of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

Policy Brief

Stranger than Fiction? Understanding Institutional Changes and Economic Development

The volume Institutional Change and Economic Development fills some important gaps in our understanding of the relationship between institutional changes and economic development. It does so by developing new discourses on the 'technology of...

Working Paper

Does Financial Liberalisation Improve Access to Investment Finance in Developing Countries?

This paper considers the effect of financial liberalisation on access to investment finance using firm level data covering 57 developing and transition countries. An index is presented which measures financial market liberalisation along the...

Journal Article

Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets

Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. Despite these mechanisms...

Journal Article

Prudential Regulation of Banks in Less Developed Economies

This article argues that developing countries face inherent obstacles in setting up efficient financial regulation, and building up a sound banking sector: the presence of multiple tasks and multiple principals, poor institutions, lack of economies...

Blog

Standards, Codes and Pension Flows

by Helmut Reisen 2002

by Helmut Reisen The case for mutual benefits arising from the global diversification of portfolios holds well for funded retirement savings. While...

Blog

Conflict and Financial Reconstruction

by Tony Addison 2002

by Tony Addison The last ten years or so have seen 56 major armed conflicts in 44 different locations, most of them civil wars. Different types of...

Book Chapter

Post-Conflict Countries

Part of Book Making Peace Work

Book

Institutional Change and Economic Development

The issue of institutional development has come to prominence during the last decade or so. During this period, even the IMF and the World Bank, which used to treat institutions as mere 'details', have come to emphasize the role of institutions in...