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From the Editor's desk (November 2011)
Tony Addison As we come to the end of November, the snow has yet to arrive in Helsinki. We continue to enjoy clear skies and spectacular sunsets...
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Youth Unemployment in the Arab World: What Do We know? What is the Way Forward?
Imed Drine Many observers see youth unemployment as the major reason behind the recent popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries. Increasing...
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Millennium Development Goals in Turbulent Times: Emerging Challenges for Post-2015 MDGsRolph van der Hoeven and Peter van Bergeijk One of the most important trends that emerged since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...
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Can Cities or Towns Drive African Development?Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture’s relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African...
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Can Cities or Towns Drive African Development? Economy-wide Analysis for Ethiopia and UgandaRapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture’s relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African...
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A Lost Half-Decade in Latin America
by Jose Antonio Ocampo With economic activity falling by close to 1 percent in 2002, Latin America will complete a lost half-decade in terms of...
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Tax Policy and Income Distribution during the Last DecadePart of Book Falling Inequality in Latin America
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Export Diversification and Economic PerformancePart of Journal Special Issue Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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Trade Specialization, Export Productivity and Growth in Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and a Cross Section of CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Southern Growth Engines and Technology Giants
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Lessons from the Transition EconomiesWhy many transition economies succeeded by pursuing policies that are so different from the radical economic liberalization (shock therapy) that is normally credited for the economic success of central European countries? First, optimal policies are...
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Celebrating 30 years of research for development
The celebration of the 30th Anniversary of UNU-WIDER presented the ideal opportunity to look back, take stock, and plan ahead. Where else can a group...
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The Danish Model and the Globalizing Learning EconomyAlthough Denmark shares with the other four Nordic countries certain attributes, such as pragmatic protestant religion, small and homogenous population, strong social democratic parties and ambitious welfare states, it also has its own...
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Interrelationships among Health, Environmental Quality, and Economic ActivityThis chapter examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables, and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence. In the early stage of economic development, the gain from income growth...
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Hunting for LeopardsThis chapter examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. We are primarily interested in examining how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. We analyse changes in the...
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Global Inequality
by Richard Jolly The gap between rich and poor nations is now at its highest ever level. OECD Research by Angus Maddison shows that differences in...
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How Growth and Related Instabilities Lower Child SurvivalPart of Book Health Inequality and Development
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Market Size, Linkages, and ProductivityPart of Book Spatial Inequality and Development
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Export Diversification and Specialization in South AfricaShould developing countries focus on diversifying their export basket or should they instead specialize their exports according to their existing comparative advantage? In this paper we attempt to answer this question by reviewing the literature on...
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Déterminants de l'Endettement Extérieur des PPTEIn the 1980s most of Sub-Saharan African countries (SSA) especially the HIPCs faced an unprecedented indebtedness. Different mechanisms of debt relief as well as economic reforms have been put in place with the objective of enabling these countries...
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Export Productivity and Specialization in China, Brazil, India and South AfricaThis paper analyses the patterns of export productivity and trade specialization profiles in the China, Brazil, India and South Africa, and in other regional groupings. In doing so, the investigation calculates a time varying export productivity...
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Export Productivity, Finance, and Economic GrowthUsing a panel of 139 countries over the period 1992-2003, we analyse the links between export productivity, economic growth and financial development indicators. We then investigate whether the links observed in China, India and Brazil systematically...
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Hunting for LeopardsThis paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. We are primarily interested in examining how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. We analyse changes in the...
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Interrelationships among Health, Environment Quality, and Economic ActivityThis paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables, and economic development, and the consequences of this relationship on economic convergence. In the early stage of economic development, the gain from income growth...
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Market Size, Linkages, and ProductivityOne account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this for 40 regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region’s own size, as well as cost linkages between producers...
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Population Size, Per Capita Income, and the Risk of Civil WarA common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This paper shows that the common finding of population size and per capita income...
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A New Fiscal Pact, Tax Policy Changes and Income InequalityThe paper analyses the changes in tax policy, tax/GDP ratios, tax incidence and income inequality which have taken place in Latin America during the last decade against the background of the changes observed in these variables during the liberal...
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How Macroeconomic Instability Lowers Child SurvivalThe reduction of child mortality is one of the most universally accepted Millennium Goals. However, there is a significant debate on the means of reaching it and its realism with regard to the situation in most of the least developed countries. The...
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Globalization, Marginalization and Development
by S. Mansoob Murshed The WIDER research project on 'Globalization and the Obstacles to the Successful Integration of Vulnerable Economies' is...
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Where do we Stand a Decade After the Collapse of the USSR?
by Vladimir Popov The economic performance of the successor states of the former Soviet Union (FSU) has been disappointing. GDP has fallen by roughly...
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The Contribution of Information Technology to the Rapid Economic Growth of SingaporePart of Book Information Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
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Social Provision in Low-Income CountriesDuring recent years, provision of key social services in low-income countries has been affected by adverse macroeconomic conditions and by radical changes in economic thinking. For example, the welfarist approach, which gives prominence to the state...
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Good and Bad Times: Volatility and Growth in Africaby Jorge Saba Arbache and John Page During the last three decades growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been both low and highly volatile. Between 1975 and...
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