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What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part I)
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...
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Surprises Ahead?
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...
Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
– Theory, Policies, and Performance
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...
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Animal Spirits
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...
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The CFA Franc Zone 10 Years After DevaluationMembers 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...
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Policy Arena: Small Island Developing States
– Development Challenges
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...
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Focus
– Achieving Growth in the Pacific
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...
Working Paper
The Provision of Global Liquidity
– The Global Reserve System
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...
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Russian Transition - Chinese Reforms
– A Comparative View
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...
Policy Brief
What Can the European Central Bank Learn from Africa?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...
Book Chapter
The provision of global liquidity: the global reserve systemPart of Book Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System
Policy Brief
Stranger than Fiction? Understanding Institutional Changes and Economic DevelopmentThe 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
World Economic Summits
– The Role of Representative Groups in the Governance of the World Economy
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The Euro's Impact on the Developing and Transition Economies
by Charles Wyplosz With all the hype in Europe and on financial markets worldwide, what does the birth of the euro mean for the developing and...
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Apres La Chute: The CFA Franc Zone 1994-2003
by David FieldingMonetary Union in AfricaIn the last ten years, there has been much debate about the economic impact of monetary union, in which...
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Responding to Aid-Induced Dutch DiseaseIn the WIDER Working Paper 'Aid and the Fiscal and Monetary Responses to Dutch Disease' Alan Roe looks at the ways in which aid-induced, and mineral export-induced Dutch Disease (DD) are similar, and the ways in which they differ. He argues that many...
Journal Article
The Macroeconomic Management of Increased Aid
– Policy Lessons from Recent Experience
Part of Journal Special Issue Development Aid
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Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Development Aid
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Introduction
– Development Aid—Theory, Policies, and Performance
Part of Journal Special Issue Development Aid
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From the Editor’s Desk (February 2015)
February found UNU-WIDER busy sending out Calls for Papers on topics ranging from social protection to clean energy to discrimination and affirmative...
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From the Editor's Desk (March 2015)
I’m writing this editorial from Dar es Salaam, while at the 20th anniversary workshop for Tanzania’s REPOA, one of our research partners. UNU-WIDER...
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From the Editor's Desk (April 2015)
So we have reached April. The year is starting to move fast. I’m writing this from New York, having just participated in an event on the sustainable...
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From the Editor’s Desk (June-August 2015)
And so we come to the summer Angle. We have just passed the longest day (midsummer) in Helsinki, with 19 or so hours of daylight. The seagulls nesting...
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Development Finance: The Role for Aid in Africa
Aid’s future, its history, and its impact were the topics of a policy workshop held by UNU-WIDER in co-operation with the Embassy of Denmark in Dar es...
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Institutional Change and Economic DevelopmentThe 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...
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The Macroeconomic Repercussions of Agricultural Shocks and their Implications for InsurancePart of Book Insurance Against Poverty
Book Chapter
Factor Shares and Resource Booms
– Accounting for the Evolution of Venezuelan Inequality
Part of Book Inequality, Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization
Journal Special Issue
Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of AidThis is an introduction to the UNU-WIDER special issue of World Development on aid policy and the macroeconomic management of aid. We provide an overview of the 10 studies, grouping them under three sub-themes: the aid–growth relationship; the supply...
Working Paper
Country Study 6
– Colombia
Three major phases of economic policy can be distinguished between 1980 and 1985: from 1980 to 1982, when the government reacted to deteriorating external conditions (the debt crisis and world recession) by liberalizing imports, relaxing fiscal...
Working Paper
Country Study 17
– Tanzania
Tanzania has not yet successfully had an IMF standby arrangement that ran its course, although several programmes have been implemented at various points in time. These programmes combined demand restraint and structural adjustment with the help of...
Working Paper
Country Study 13
– India
India's first two bouts of orthodox stabilization policy following independence were quite different. The first, prompted by a prolonged drought at home and the wars with China in 1962 and Pakistan in 1965, was relatively mild in form. The rupee was...
Working Paper
Country Study 12
– Argentina
Argentina has had successive stabs at stabilization since the mid-1970s. Throughout most of this time it has had to wrestle with acute problems of hyperinflation, capital flight, rising external debt, a stop-go pattern of output, and for a long time...
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Country Study 11
– Brazil
Brazil has undergone three stabilization programmes since 1980: without the IMF in 1981-82; with the IMF in 1983-84, and the Cruzado Plan of 1986. The first two could be said to have been more orthodox in character, given the political and social...
Working Paper
Aid and the Fiscal and Monetary Responses to Dutch DiseaseThis study assesses the fiscal and monetary management challenges that can be associated with large inflows of foreign aid. It provides a brief overview of the literature on Dutch Disease (DD) as applied to mineral wealth and then assesses the...
Journal Article
The Behavior of Interest Rate Differentials under Shifting Exchange Rate Regimes
– The Experience of Chile, Colombia and Israel
Part of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America
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El Tramo Corto de la Estructura a Plazo como Predictor de Expectativas de la Actividad Económica en ColombiaPart of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America
Book Chapter
Capital Flows to Developing Countries and the Reform of the International Financial SystemPart of Book Governing Globalization
Book Chapter
Are World Financial Markets More Open?
– If So, Why and With What Effects?
Part of Book Financial Openness and National Autonomy
Book Chapter
Exchange Controls and Policy Autonomy
– The Case of Australia, 1983-88
Part of Book Financial Openness and National Autonomy
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