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Lessons from Africa's Democratic Upheavals
Danielle Resnick During the last month, three democracies in Africa witnessed incumbent presidents exit office in very different ways. The most...
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Impact of Asylum on Receiving CountriesWhereas asylum seekers and the systems for adjudicating their claims to refugee status in developed countries have garnished considerable attention and, often, have been at the centre of political controversy, there has been relatively little...
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Analysis of Deviations and Delays in Aid DisbursementsThe study seeks to identify donor-specific factors that cause donors to delay aid disbursement, and to apply a double standard in dealing with the non-compliance of a recipient with regard to aid conditionalities, a practice that promotes uncertainty...
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Developed Country Trade Barriers and the Least Developed CountriesThe Doha Ministerial Declaration emphasized that priority should be given to improving market access for products originating in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). In this paper, we analyze the importance of this proposition with respect to market...
Journal Article
Climate Change Impacts and AdaptationsPart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley
Working Paper
Analyse du Processus de Convergence Dans la Zone UEMOAL’objectif de cet étude est d’analyser l’état de la convergence dans l’UEMOA, de 1980 à 2001, à travers les critères de convergence définis dans son pacte de convergence. On utilise l’approche méthodologique de Haldane et Hall (1991) pour appréhender...
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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...
Policy Brief
Governing GlobalizationThis 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...
Policy Brief
A Recuperação de África após os ConflitosEste resumo na área das políticas apresenta os resultados de um projecto do UNU/WIDER sobre a guerra e a reconstrução em África da autoria de Tony Addison, que se encontra actualmente publicado sob o nome de From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. Tal...
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Africa's Recovery from ConflictThis policy brief summarizes the results of a UNU/WIDER project on war and reconstruction in Africa directed by Tony Addison, which is now published as From Conflict to Recovery in Africa. As this study makes clear, peace is often elusive and...
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The Role of Issue Linkage in Managing the MekongThe Mekong River is the major water source in Southeast Asia and shared by six countries. There is a rush to acquire sources of alternative energy and other benefits to meet the growing demand for water and energy, while China and Myanmar have...
Policy Brief
Social and Economic Policies to Prevent Complex Humanitarian Emergencies Lessons from ExperienceIn simple language and with numerous concrete examples, this policy brief analyses the impact - among others - of key ex-ante factors such as acute 'horizontal inequality' between social groups in the distribution of assets, state jobs, social...
Book Chapter
The Political Economy of Fragile StatesFragile states have very mixed characteristics. Some are experiencing violent conflict, some are ‘post-conflict’, some have avoided large-scale violence–so far. Many are resource poor, but some are resource rich. Many are landlocked, but certainly...
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Global economic governance and economic policyThe policy advice given by economists in international institutions is influenced by their prior academic work. In my case, applied general equilibrium work resulted both in a belief in the necessity of decentralized markets and in a distrust of...
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Aid to Fragile StatesThe record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the wrong...
Journal Article
Analysis of Deviations and Delays in Aid DisbursementsPart of Journal Special Issue Sustainability of External Development Finance
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EMU and the Developing CountriesThe purpose of this paper is to explore economic and political implications of Europe's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) for developing countries. In strictly economic terms, influences will be communicated through both trade and financial channels...
Blog
From the Editor's Desk (March 2012)
Tony Addison With the ice floes now gone from the harbour outside the UNU-WIDER building, and with the snow replaced by an icy hail, there is a...
Working Paper
Political Theories of Development Cooperation - A Study of Theories of International Cooperation
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Indo-Sri Lanka Economic CooperationA substantially higher rate of growth of exports is crucial to ensure success of the major outward-oriented, 'market friendly' economic reforms being pursued in India and Sri Lanka. The international economic and trade environment, however, is far...
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Toward the Enhanced Effectiveness of Foreign AidAt the very time that professional skepticism concerning the effectiveness of foreign aid has reached new heights, donors seem to be ready to substantially increase the volume of aid they are willing to make available. This paper attempts to address...
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International Organizations in Development and Global InequalityInitial models of development debates on how to achieve economic growth have been added to by a focus on social issues such as education and political participation. These debates and discourses about development are shaped by international...
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From the Editor's Desk (December 2013)
10 December 2013 Tony Addison Our November-December Angle comes amid intense activity on our ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid—programme...
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From the Editor’s Desk (October 2013)
31 October 2013 Tony Addison October finds Angle in New York, for our event on ‘Fragility and Aid–What Works?’ at the Permanent Mission of Germany to...
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The Nordic Contribution to Development
26 March 2014 Tony Addison The Nordic countries have a long-standing commitment to development, and their work in peace-building has taken Nordic...
Research Brief
Democratic Consolidation and Donor Activity in MalawiOn April 7 2012, following the death of President Mutharika, Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi's new president. Addressing parliament, President Banda made it clear that she intended to shake up Malawi, suggesting that she would repeal anti...
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Intervention, Aid, and Institution-Building in Iraq and AfghanistanSince 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the question of whether external intervention can assist weak or fragile states in successfully making the transition to stable democracies...
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Foreign Aid and the Failure of State Building in Haiti Under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval, and MartellyAfter receiving at least US$20 billion in aid for reconstruction and development over the past 60 years, Haiti has been and remains a fragile state, one of the worse globally. The reasons for aid failure are legion but mostly relate to highly...
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Aid, Employment and Inclusive Growth in Conflict-Affected CountriesThe experience and lessons of the last two decades have shown that ignoring the key differences between the economics of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly analyses...
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Does Aid Availability Affect Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty?This paper addresses the issue of the impact of aid supply on aid effectiveness. We proceed in two steps. First, we review research works that deal with the problem of governance in donor-recipient relationships and are susceptible of highlighting...
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International Coordination and the Effectiveness of AidThis paper discusses and seeks to quantify the effects of improved donor coordination on aid effectiveness. Empirical estimates are first provided of the reductions in transaction costs that can be achieved by better donor coordination via...
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Two Steps Forward, One Step BackSince the era of one-party rule, Malawi’s relationship with the donor community has proved erratic and contentious. During the second term of Malawi’s current president, Bingu wa Mutharika, this trend has continued apace, with important implications...
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Foreign Assistance and the Food Crisis of 2007–08Dramatically increased international agricultural commodity prices from 2007 to mid-2008 brought food inflation and greater incidence of poverty and malnutrition to developing countries. Higher food prices in 2011 threaten to repeat that crisis. The...
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The West Is Finding it Harder to get Its Own Way in the World
Ian Morris The people of Europe and North America still produce two-thirds of the world’s GDP, spend more than two-thirds of its R&D dollars, and own...
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Developed Country Trade Barriers and the Least Developed CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Developing Countries in the WTO Regime
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To Be or Not To Be?Part of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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Introduction: Sustainability of Development FinancingPart of Journal Special Issue Development Financing
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What Determines African Bilateral Aid Receipts?Part of Journal Special Issue Aid to Africa
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Intervention and State-BuildingPart of Journal Special Issue Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States
Blog
Getting into a State?
30 October 2013 Roger Williamson The UNU-WIDER meeting held last week in New York on the topic of fragility and aid argued forcefully that you cannot...
Research Brief
Lessons from US Interventions to Japan, Afghanistan and IraqJapan’s post-war liberalizing reforms were a success. This was partly due to the fact that US occupation preserved the strength of national institutions and made effective use of their capacity. Improvement in the scope of the state and the strength...
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Democratic Trajectories in AfricaDespite impressive economic growth rates over the last decade, foreign aid still plays a significant role in Africa's political economies.This book asks when, why, and how foreign aid has facilitated, or hindered, democratization in sub-Saharan...
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Monitoring and Evaluation Reform under Changing Aid ModalitiesPart of Book Foreign Aid for Development
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Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational ElitesThe class and social structure of developing nations has undergone profound transformation in recent decades as each nation has incorporated into an increasingly integrated global production and financial system. National elites have experienced a...
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Monitoring and Evaluation Reform under Changing Aid ModalitiesThis paper grew out of our bewilderment with the insouciance with which some in the donor community seem ready to abandon accounting for the use of aid. If one listens to the rhetoric surrounding the new approach to aid, one gets the impression that...
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Economic and Theological Approaches to Debt CancellationDifferences in economic and theological approaches to debt cancellation result from differences in disciplinary assumptions in respect of purpose, method, and argument. We argue that they provide alternative commentaries upon the need for debt...
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Donor Funding of Multilateral Aid AgenciesThe paper reports an empirical study of the factors affecting burden sharing among OECD’s 22 DAC members in ‘bankrolling’ the multilateral aid agencies. These are the UN agencies, World Bank’s IDA and non-IDA programmes, regional development banks...
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Asylum-seekers as Pariahs in the Australian StateDuring the last decade measures of overt and covert surveillance, information sharing and deterrence of the illegal movement of people has increased within and between states. Border security has come to dominate international relations, and...
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Regionalization in East Asia-Pacific?This is a state-of-the-art report prepared within the UNU/WIDER project The New Regionalism and the International System - Implications for Development and Security, covering East and Southeast Asia. The report constitutes an initial inventory study...
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Toward the Enhanced Effectiveness of Foreign AidPart of Book Foreign Aid for Development
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Transnational Integration and National Disintegration RevisitedPart of Book Comparing Regionalisms
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Multilateral Military ResponsesPart of Book The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies
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Analysis of the Convergence Process in the UEMOA ZonePart of Book Macroeconomic Policy in the Franc Zone
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EMU and the Developing CountriesPart of Book The Impact of EMU on Europe and the Developing Countries
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Developed Country Trade Barriers and the Least Developed CountriesPart of Book The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda
Blog
From the Editor’s Desk (November 2012)
Tony Addison This month saw the visit of Kaushik Basu, the World Bank’s new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, to...
Book Chapter
The Impact of Asylum on Receiving CountriesPart of Book Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
Policy Brief
L'Afrique de la Guerre à la PaixCe cahier de politique présente une synthèse des résultats d'un projet de l'UNU/WIDER sur la guerre et la reconstruction en Afrique, conduit sous la direction de Tony Addison, et qui viennent d'être publiés dans une étude intitulée From Conflict to...
Blog
Reform the UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions
by Deepak Nayyar The United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, created at the end of the Second World War, today operate on...
Book Chapter
Regional Hydropolitics in Mainland South East AsiaPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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Israel, Palestine and JordanPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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The Role of the Regional Factor in West AfricaPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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Africa in the Global Political EconomyPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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The New Regionalism and Collective Diplomacy in Latin AmericaPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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Regional Cooperation and Economic DevelopmentPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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The Logic of Regional Security in the Post-Cold War WorldPart of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development
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International Coordination and the Effectiveness of AidPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
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Asylum Seekers as Pariahs in the Australian StatePart of Book Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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Multilateral Development AssistancePart of Book Development Finance in the Global Economy
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A Critical View and the Research AgendaPart of Book The Impact of EMU on Europe and the Developing Countries
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Transnational Integration and National Disintegration RevisitedPart of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism
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Regionalism and World Order After the Cold WarPart of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism
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Regionalization and its Impact on the Theory of International RelationsPart of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism
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Regionalization in Response to Polarizing GlobalizationPart of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism
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Rethinking the 'New Regionalism' in the Context of GlobalizationPart of Book Globalism and the New Regionalism
Annual Lecture
Developing Countries in the World EconomyThis lecture examines recent changes in the significance of developing countries in the world economy from a longer term historical perspective. From 1820 to 1950 developing countries experienced a sharp decline in their dominant share of world GDP...
Book
National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the SouthThis volume presents various national perspectives on the process of regionalization for a more concrete understanding of its dynamics. It is dedicated to country studies from the South and explores to what extent the New Regionalism can provide...
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National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the SouthThis volume presents various national perspectives on the process of regionalization for a more concrete understanding of its dynamics. It is dedicated to country studies from the South and explores to what extent the New Regionalism can provide...
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Globalism and the New RegionalismThis is the first of five volumes reporting on the UNU-WIDER study on New Regionalism. It deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which probably will have a crucial influence on the shape of the 'new world order' - globalization and...
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Globalism and the New RegionalismThis is the first of five volumes reporting on the UNU-WIDER study on New Regionalism. It deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which probably will have a crucial influence on the shape of the 'new world order' - globalization and...
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War, Hunger, and DisplacementCivil wars in developing countries are amongst the most significant sources of human suffering in the world today. Although there are many political analyses of these emergencies, this two-volume work is the first comprehensive study of the economic...
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War, Hunger, and DisplacementSince the end of the cold war, the number of civil wars in developing countries has escalated to the point where they are the most significant source of human suffering in the world today. Although there are many political analyses of these...
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Comparing RegionalismsComparing Regionalisms summarizes the UNU/WIDER international research project on the formation of world regions, and what implications this process will have for the future world order, particularly as far as the important issues of peace and...
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The Conversion of the US Subic Naval Base in the PhilippinesPart of Book The End of Military Fordism
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Hegemon, Region and Nation StatePart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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Building a New Relationship in Southern AfricaPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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The Southern Africa Region and the Regional HegemonPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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Regionalist Responses in the Caribbean BasinPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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Uruguayan Foreign Policies in the NinetiesPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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China's Options in Asia Pacific RegionalizationPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the South
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North American Regionalism from a Canadian PerspectivePart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
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Sustaining American HegemonyPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
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Post-Soviet RegionalismPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
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Visegrád CooperationPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
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The Dynamics of RegionalizationPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
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Divided Nation, Reluctant EuropeanPart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
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Germany's Options and Interests in EuropePart of Book National Perspectives on the New Regionalism in the North
Research Brief
Should Aid Be Allocated According to Need or Governance Capacity?The donor community is becoming increasingly focused on two goals; increasing aid supply and improving aid effectiveness. These two goals are clearly interdependent as in order for aid to be increased both politicians and the public must be convinced...
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Can the Coordination of Aid Cut Costs for Donors?A common theme in the literature on aid effectiveness is that the character of the relationship between donors and recipients is a crucial determinant of how effective the provided aid is. One important dimension of this relationship is the extent to...
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How to Achieve Economics of Peace?The natural resource sector in Liberia has failed to produce links to other important sectors of the economy, and in particular has failed to create jobs for the large majority of the population. Creating new and productive jobs is key to national...
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How Can Food Aid Be More Effective?If food aid is to be more effective donors need to consider both the goals of the aid, and its economic implications. In May 2012, shortly before the annual G8 summit, the Obama administration announced the ‘New Alliance for Food Security’. The...
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