Blog

by Tony Addison October 2011

Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a symptom and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. In part 1 of this two...

• Depressions
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Foreign exchange

Blog

by Tony Addison June-July 2011

Tony Addison With six months remaining till the end of 2011, it’s time to take a peek into the near future. What can we expect? John Kenneth Galbraith...

• Agriculture
• Climate change
• Public debt

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 Tony Addison August 2011

Tony Addison 'Birds of a feather flock together', the old saying goes. So too do investors. Today, those investment birds are a depressed lot. The...

• Depressions
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
• Industrial policy

Journal Special Issue

Members of the CFA-zone enjoy currency convertibility, fiscal and monetary policies which are more prudent than SSA as a whole, and a large amount of financial and technical assistance. These advantages do not appear, however, to have resulted in...

• Fiscal policy
• CFA Franc
• French franc area

Journal Special Issue

This Policy Arena examines some of the development challenges faced by SIDS. It brings together a collection of papers arising from the UNU-WIDER project Fragility and Development. These investigations were presented at the UNU-WIDER project meeting...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Journal Special Issue

This Focus is devoted to small islands' development challenges, specifically relating to the achievement of economic growth, and draws on five papers arising from the UNU-WIDER 'Fragility and Development' research project meeting held in Fiji in...

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

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 paper compares the Russian transition with the Chinese reforms. The concept and implications of 'transition' differ from those of 'reform'. Transition in its systemic understanding is considered as a change of the system, a shift to a new one...

• Economic policy
• Monetary policy
• Post-communism

Working Paper

• Economic policy
• Financial institutions
• Monetary policy

Policy Brief

The 14-member Franc Zone in West and Central Africa represents the largest monetary union in the southern hemisphere, predating the European Monetary Union by decades. With monetary unions planned for other parts of Africa in the near future...

• Central banking
• Institutional economics
• Macroeconomics

Working Paper

• Free trade
• Globalization
• International finance

Working Paper

• Economic development
• Fiscal policy
• Monetary policy

Working Paper

• Economic development
• Financial crisis
• Fiscal policy

Book Chapter

Part of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

• Financial institutions
• International
• International agencies

Working Paper

• Budget deficits
• Economic development
• Economic integration