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201 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

Blog

Green Growth: A Win-Win Approach to Sustainable Development?

by Danielle Resnick, James Thurlow June 2012

Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow The concept of ‘green growth’ is one which has understandable political currency, highlighted by its prominence in...

Blog

From the Editor's Desk (March 2012)

by Tony Addison 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...

Blog

From the Editor's Desk (June-July 2012)

by Tony Addison June 2012

Tony Addison I started writing this ‘From the Editor’s Desk’ in Accra, to the sound of an African drum band, preparing for a ceremony to mark the...

Blog

Climate Change and Development Policy

by James Thurlow November 2012

James Thurlow UNU-WIDER recently hosted an international conference on ‘Climate Change and Development Policy’. We were motivated by the apparent...

Blog

Climate Change and Development Policy: Competing Aims?

by Yongfu Huang September 2012

Yongfu Huang The climate change crisis and development needs of the world's poor require us to acknowledge the necessity and urgency for both...

Blog

The Polarized post-2015 Development Puzzle: The Poorest still Fall Behind

by Marikki Stocchetti April 2013

23 April 2013 Marikki Stocchetti 2015 will mark a moment of truth for the international community as the era of the Millennium Development agenda...

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Positioning the Climate Finance in the post-2015 Development Agenda

by Aziz Karimov June 2013

24 June 2013 Aziz Karimov By the end of 2015, we will see a new global development agenda which will substitute the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...

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A New Agenda for a New World

by Gunilla Carlsson June 2013

24 June 2013 Minister Gunilla Carlson Like every political agenda, the post-2015 agenda must be firmly based in a reality check. The current...

Journal Article

The Political Economy of Green Growth

The concept of Green Growth implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic prosperity and poverty alleviation, can be easily reconciled with environmental sustainability. This article, however, argues that...

Working Paper

The Role of Issue Linkage in Managing the Mekong

The 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...

Blog

Mini-documentary: Viet Nam’s data revolution is well on its way

by Katrina Jurva July 2017

The international community rarely calls for a revolution. In this case, it has. A data revolution, says UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp. Viet Nam has...

Working Paper

Aid, education policy, and development

This paper discusses the recent history of education aid policy. It highlights an important shift in policy thinking in the international aid architecture that has dominated the global education aid agenda since the early 1990s. It argues that...

Journal Special Issue

Sustainable Development

The papers in this special issue represent the concluding stage of a 10-year research project, in the framework of UNU/WIDER, on economic stabilization and medium-term adjustment, directed by Professor Lance Taylor. This project has been one of the...

Journal Article

Optimum Fisheries Management under Climate Variability

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

Book Chapter

The Political Economy of Green Growth

Much of the debate on green growth and environmental governance tends to be general in nature, and is often conceptual or limited to single disciplines. Even though recent discussions on these topics have benefited from the accumulation of empirical...

Working Paper

Sustainable Ecosystem in Africa

Working Paper

Managing Renewable Natural Capital in Africa

There is a growing evidence suggesting that the ecological degradation in Africa is accelerating faster than the region's economic decline. More seriously, trees in Sub-Saharan Africa are being felled 30 times as fast as they are being replaced...

Working Paper

A Global Environmental Compact for Sustainable Development

The proposals in this paper derive from studies undertaken at WIDER on questions relating to sustainable development in developing countries. The paper attempts to quantify the resource transfer implications of supporting feasible environment...

Working Paper

The Polish Alternative

In 1994-97 Poland has recorded an outstanding economic performance in terms of GDP growth, simultaneous reduction of inflation and unemployment, fiscal balance, zloty real revaluation, capacity restructuring, private sector growth and institution...

Working Paper

The Potential of Development Contracts and Conditionality

Journal Special Issue

Aid, Education Policy, and Development

The studies of this Special Issue aim to address the general question of how aid can better support the collective actions that seek to improve education systems in developing countries. Overall, they provide an analysis of key policy strategies that...

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising...