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23 April 2014 Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang At the onset of its miraculous rise in 1979, China had been trapped in poverty for centuries and was poorer...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Economic growth

Blog

29 November 2012 Carl-Gustav Lindén In November 2012 UNU-WIDER had the pleasure of hosting a public event with Dr Kaushik Basu, the newly appointed...

• Financial crisis
• International finance
• Macroeconomics

Policy Brief

This policy brief is intended to outline suggestions and stimulate discussion at a time when the world community is thinking about, and is engaged in, a debate on global governance. The policy brief not only focuses on the reform of existing...

• International agencies
• International finance
• International relations

Policy Brief

As a result of the Five Year Review of the World Summit for Social Development, the UN General Assembly in September 2000 adopted a resolution calling for 'a rigorous analysis of the advantages, disadvantages and other implications of proposals for...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• International agencies

Journal Special Issue

Following on WIDER's work on Development Finance which has involved three projects since 2002, a development conference on 'Aid: Principles, Policies and Performance' was organized in June 2006. Aid is one of the most challenging development issues...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• International finance

Blog

by Wim Naudé February 2009

Wim Naudé Following the US subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2008, the world is now staggering from financial to economic crisis as many high-income...

• Economic development
• Economic policy
• Financial crisis

Policy Brief

External development finance consists of those foreign sources of funds that promote or at least have the potential to promote development in the destination countries if delivered in the appropriate form. This rather broad definition qualifies all...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Financial institutions, International
• International agencies

Journal Special Issue

The real value of official aid flows fell for much of the 1990s, and private capital flows to low-income countries remain mostly limited. The decline in aid flows may endanger the development process, since they finance much of the development budget...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International finance

Journal Special Issue

The real value of official aid flows fell for much of the 1990s, and private capital flows to low-income countries remain mostly limited. The decline in aid flows may endanger the development process, since they finance much of the development budget...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International economic relations
• International finance

Journal Special Issue

As one of globalisation's most visible dimensions, foreign direct investment (FDI) is central to the prospects for developing countries in the world economy. Key issues include the direction of causation between FDI and growth, the potential role of...

• Economic development
• International finance
• Foreign investments

Journal Special Issue

The present paper serves as an introduction to this special issue providing a justification for, and linking and introducing to the articles that follow. A central message emanating from the papers included in this special issue is that it is not...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development projects
• Government spending policy

Working Paper

This paper analyses three major problems of the current international monetary system: the asymmetric-adjustment problem, dependence on the monetary policy of the main reserve-issuing country, and the large demand for self-insurance by developing...

• Financial institutions, International
• International agencies
• International finance

Working Paper

The main purpose of this paper is to argue that Ghana's economic recovery under SAP would have been much brighter if policy makers had not made some obvious errors in the application of the theory of 'comparative advantage' and in the selection...

• Agriculture
• Economic development
• Economic policy

Working Paper

1. La communauté internationale doit mettre au point des methodes permettant de soutenir la croissance japonaise afin d'attenuer les effets de l'essoufflement americain et d'enrayer toute amorce de deflation mondiale.2. Alors que certaines des...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• International finance

Working Paper

• Free trade
• Globalization
• International finance

Working Paper

The aim of this paper is to raise a few open questions and to bring to light some mismatches between existing theories and the evidence. (1) It is shown that many standard international debt models unwittingly require some agents to behave...

• Public debt
• Game theory
• International finance