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Video of the event, contributors bios and papers, programme and much more info still available at www.wider.unu.edu/recomjobs. 28—29 September 2012, Helsinki, Finland  Edited by Augustin K. Fosu  Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries What lessons can be learnt from 'developed' countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term growth and development, this book provides historical accounts of the development strategies of a select set of advanced countries. Each case study typically presents the country's 'successes' and the root causes of those successes. Organized into three parts, it covers four of the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden), other industrially advanced countries (Japan, Ireland, and Switzerland), and transition economies (Czech, Hungary, and Poland). Although the book stresses that development strategies are, by and large, country and context-specific, the historical accounts are full of recurrent themes, which should provide useful lessons for developing countries and emerging economies. Editorial by Nordic Africa Institute on Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries Publications search
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| DECEMBER 2012 From the Editor's DeskTony Addison This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it's been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the end of December, up from 96 in 2011 (go here for the latest list). Recent working papers cover the topics of intergenerational mobility in India, food price policy in Zambia, training and enterprise development, vulnerability in the Latin American middle class, aid and investment in statistics in Africa and many more. Full articleGender Mainstreaming in Nordic Development Agencies: Seventeen Years after the Beijing ConferenceMalokele Nanivazo and Lucy Scott In the last 50 years there has been a growing awareness and consensus on the intrinsic significance of gender equality in a just and well-working society. Gender equality is foremost a human right—it matters in its own right. It is unethical to discriminate against a large portion of the population based on social, behavioural, or cultural attributes. This creates a culture of subordination and perpetuates social norms, which constrain women enjoyment of their human rights. Moreover, gender equality is a critical channel for achieving others social, political, and economic goals. Full article GUESTAngle What's in a Name? Human Rights, Human Development, and Human DignityDavid Richards As we get ready to welcome the year 2013, the 2015 'finishing line' for the Millennium Development Goals looms visibly on the calendar. In preparation, the UN some time ago began an involved process intended to set the 'post-2015 UN Development Agenda'. One of the many aspects of this process is that it begs the classic question: what's in a name? Plenty, it turns out. Full article RESEARCHAngle Gender and Transitional JusticeHow can gender be better taken into account in the transitional justice processes?
In the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, women were at the forefront of the protests. However, once the struggle was over, women were generally expected to return to their normal roles. Very few were present at the negotiations about new political orders, and it now seems likely that women will make few gains under the new regimes. In the WIDER Working Paper 'Transitional Justice and Aid' Sirkku Hellsten discusses the various dimensions of transitional justice arguing that due to the unique experience of women, both during conflict and in the period of reconciliation, gender issues need to be given special emphasis during the transitional process. Full article Aid Volatility Across SectorsJohn Hudson argues that when looking at volatility the devil lies in the (sector level) detail.
A key pledge of the Paris Deceleration of 2005 was that aid flows would be made more predictable. This is a key goal as aid shortfalls can cause a government to disproportionately cut their investments, while sudden spikes in aid can lead to a dramatic boost in government consumption. The majority of the work done on the issue of aid volatility focuses on the effect these reactions to variation in total levels of aid has had on key macro variables such as growth and government expenditure. In the WIDER Working Paper 'Consequences of Aid Volatility for Macroeconomic Management and Aid Effectiveness' John Hudson gives a more detailed analysis of the issue by focusing on the impact of the aid volatility of different aid sectors, and on the effect such volatility has on specific targets such as healthcare and education. Full article Foreign aid and democracy in Africa - an interview with Danielle ResnickThis month we talk to Danielle Resnick discusses the logic behind and findings of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Foreign aid and democracy in Africa'. In this interview we hear what the sometimes very different and contradictory effects of development aid and democracy assistance are on democratic transitions, and what lies behind these outcomes. We also learn what impact the different aid modalities of development aid and democracy assistance, for example budget support or projects aiming at parliamentary strenghtening, have on democratic consolidation. Go to video
ANNOUNCEMENT
Project meeting: Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP). Second authors' meeting. Helsinki, Finland 28 January 2013 UNU-WIDER Conference on Learning to Compete: Industrial Development and Policy in Africa. Helsinki, Finland 24 June 2013 RECENT EVENTSUNU-WIDER Seminar: Global Crisis and the Impact on Emerging Economies by Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics of the World Bank. Held in Helsinki, Finland 26 November 2012 Workshop: Report launch of 'Characteristics of the Vietnamese Business Environment: Evidence from a Small and Medium Enterprise Survey in 2011'. Hanoi, Vietnam 21 November 2012 Lecture: Food Security and Global Environmental Change, by Aziz Karimov. Jyväskylä, Finland 15 November 2012 Workshop: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland/UNU-WIDER Workshop on The New Global Development Agenda 12 November 2012 Presentation: Does Foreign Aid Help, by Finn Tarp. Copenhagen, Denmark 3 November 2012 Presentation: Aid, Growth and Development, by Finn Tarp. Copenhagen, Denmark 2 November 2012 Aid Distribution and Co-operation in Unequal Communities
Ben D'Exelle, and Marrit van den Berg WP/111 Do People in Income Poverty Use Their Income Efficiently?: A subjective well-being approach
Mariano Rojas WP/110 Economic Governance: Improving the economic and regulatory environment for supporting private sector activityColin Kirkpatrick WP/108 Development Aid and EmploymentRolph van der Hoeven WP/107 Predicting Violence within Genocides: Meso-level evidence from Rwanda
Omar Shahabudin McDoom WP/106 Infrastructure and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptations for South Africa Paul S. Chinowsky; Amy E. Schweikert; Niko L. Strzepek; Kenneth R. Strzepek; and Kyle P. Kwiatkowski WP/105It's All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ('e') to Crawl the Design Space
Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer WP/104 International Organizations in Development and Global Inequality: The example of the World Bank's pension policy
Martin Koch WP/103 The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in South AfricaJohann F. Kirsten WP/102 How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree? Some Evidence on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility from IndiaSripad Motiram and Ashish Singh WP/101 The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: The Case of ZambiaAntony Chapoto WP/100 The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka WP/099 Stability and Vulnerability of the Latin American Middle Class
Florencia Torche and Luis F. Lopez-Calv WP/098 Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India
Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee WP/097 The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in EgyptAhmed Farouk Ghoneim WP/096 The Impact of the 2007–08 Food Price Crisis in a Major Commodity Exporter: Food Prices, Inflation, and Inclusion in BrazilBernardo Mueller and Charles Mueller WP/095 Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in AfricaJohn Page and Måns Söderbom WP/094 Aid and Investment in Statistics for Africa
Jeffery I. Round WP/093 Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa: Policies, politics and inter-governmental relations
Winnie V. Mitullah WP/092 Gender Mainstreaming in Nordic Development Agencies: Seventeen years after the Beijing Conference
Malokele Nanivazo and Lucy Scott WP/091 Civil Service Reform: A review
Sarah Repucci WP/090 WIDERAngle newsletter
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Watch video: WIDER Annual Lecture 16—Folk and the Formula—Pathways to Capable States, by Professor Lant Pritchett
27 September 2012, Helsinki, Finland
ReCom Results meeting: Jobs—Aid at Work was held 8 October 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Video of the event, contributors bios and papers, programme and much more info still available at www.wider.unu.edu/recomjobs.
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VIDEOS: Conference on Climate Change and Development Policy
28—29 September 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries
Edited by Augustin K. Fosu
Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries
What lessons can be learnt from 'developed' countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-term growth and development, this book provides historical accounts of the development strategies of a select set of advanced countries. Each case study typically presents the country's 'successes' and the root causes of those successes. Organized into three parts, it covers four of the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden), other industrially advanced countries (Japan, Ireland, and Switzerland), and transition economies (Czech, Hungary, and Poland). Although the book stresses that development strategies are, by and large, country and context-specific, the historical accounts are full of recurrent themes, which should provide useful lessons for developing countries and emerging economies.
Editorial by Nordic Africa Institute onDevelopment Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries
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DECEMBER 2012
From the Editor's Desk
Tony Addison
This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it's been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the end of December, up from 96 in 2011 (go here for the latest list). Recent working papers cover the topics of intergenerational mobility in India, food price policy in Zambia, training and enterprise development, vulnerability in the Latin American middle class, aid and investment in statistics in Africa and many more. Full article
Gender Mainstreaming in Nordic Development Agencies: Seventeen Years after the Beijing Conference
Malokele Nanivazo and Lucy Scott
In the last 50 years there has been a growing awareness and consensus on the intrinsic significance of gender equality in a just and well-working society. Gender equality is foremost a human right—it matters in its own right. It is unethical to discriminate against a large portion of the population based on social, behavioural, or cultural attributes. This creates a culture of subordination and perpetuates social norms, which constrain women enjoyment of their human rights. Moreover, gender equality is a critical channel for achieving others social, political, and economic goals. Full article
GUESTAngle
What's in a Name? Human Rights, Human Development, and Human Dignity
David Richards
As we get ready to welcome the year 2013, the 2015 'finishing line' for the Millennium Development Goals looms visibly on the calendar. In preparation, the UN some time ago began an involved process intended to set the 'post-2015 UN Development Agenda'. One of the many aspects of this process is that it begs the classic question: what's in a name? Plenty, it turns out.
Full article
RESEARCHAngle
Gender and Transitional Justice
How can gender be better taken into account in the transitional justice processes?
In the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, women were at the forefront of the protests. However, once the struggle was over, women were generally expected to return to their normal roles. Very few were present at the negotiations about new political orders, and it now seems likely that women will make few gains under the new regimes. In the WIDER Working Paper 'Transitional Justice and Aid' Sirkku Hellsten discusses the various dimensions of transitional justice arguing that due to the unique experience of women, both during conflict and in the period of reconciliation, gender issues need to be given special emphasis during the transitional process. Full article
Aid Volatility Across Sectors
John Hudson argues that when looking at volatility the devil lies in the (sector level) detail.
A key pledge of the Paris Deceleration of 2005 was that aid flows would be made more predictable. This is a key goal as aid shortfalls can cause a government to disproportionately cut their investments, while sudden spikes in aid can lead to a dramatic boost in government consumption. The majority of the work done on the issue of aid volatility focuses on the effect these reactions to variation in total levels of aid has had on key macro variables such as growth and government expenditure. In the WIDER Working Paper 'Consequences of Aid Volatility for Macroeconomic Management and Aid Effectiveness' John Hudson gives a more detailed analysis of the issue by focusing on the impact of the aid volatility of different aid sectors, and on the effect such volatility has on specific targets such as healthcare and education. Full article
VIDEOAngle
Foreign aid and democracy in Africa - an interview with Danielle Resnick
This month we talk to Danielle Resnick discusses the logic behind and findings of the UNU-WIDER research project 'Foreign aid and democracy in Africa'. In this interview we hear what the sometimes very different and contradictory effects of development aid and democracy assistance are on democratic transitions, and what lies behind these outcomes. We also learn what impact the different aid modalities of development aid and democracy assistance, for example budget support or projects aiming at parliamentary strenghtening, have on democratic consolidation. Go to video
ANNOUNCEMENT
Call for Papers: UNU-WIDER Conference - Learning to Compete: Industrial Development and Policy in Africa, Helsinki, Finland 24-25 June 2013
Online application submission form is open until 31 January 2013.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Project meeting: Growth and Poverty Project (GAPP). Second authors' meeting. Helsinki, Finland 28 January 2013
UNU-WIDER Conference on Learning to Compete: Industrial Development and Policy in Africa.
Helsinki, Finland 24 June 2013
RECENT EVENTS
UNU-WIDER Seminar: Global Crisis and the Impact on Emerging Economies by Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics of the World Bank. Held in Helsinki, Finland 26 November 2012
Lecture: Trade and Gender Inequality. Jyväskylä, Finland
26 November 2012
Workshop: Report launch of 'Characteristics of the Vietnamese Business Environment: Evidence from a Small and Medium Enterprise Survey in 2011'.
Hanoi, Vietnam 21 November 2012
Workshop: Relationship between Development Policy and Research19 November 2012
Lecture: Food Security and Global Environmental Change, by Aziz Karimov. Jyväskylä, Finland 15 November 2012
Workshop: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland/UNU-WIDER Workshop on The New Global Development Agenda
12 November 2012
Presentation: Does Foreign Aid Help, by Finn Tarp. Copenhagen, Denmark 3 November 2012
Presentation: Aid, Growth and Development, by Finn Tarp. Copenhagen, Denmark 2 November 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Book:Forthcoming: Achieving Development Success: Strategies and Lessons from the Developing World
Edited by Augustin K. Fosu
Book: Forthcoming: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms
Edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Ludovico Alcorta
Book: Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries
Edited by Augustin K. Fosu
Journal: Review of Development Economics Special Issue: Climate Change and Economic Development
Guest Editors: Channing Arndt, Paul Chinowsky, Ken Strzepek, Finn Tarp, and James Thurlow
Book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Edited by the late Alice H. Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, and James A. Robinson
Article:The Political Economy of Green Growth: Cases from Southern Africa
Danielle Resnick, Finn Tarp, James Thurlow
WIDER Working Papers 2012
Aid Distribution and Co-operation in Unequal Communities
Ben D'Exelle, and Marrit van den Berg WP/111
Do People in Income Poverty Use Their Income Efficiently?: A subjective well-being approach
Mariano Rojas WP/110
Economic Governance: Improving the economic and regulatory environment for supporting private sector activity
Colin Kirkpatrick WP/108
Development Aid and Employment
Rolph van der Hoeven WP/107
Predicting Violence within Genocides: Meso-level evidence from Rwanda
Omar Shahabudin McDoom WP/106
Infrastructure and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptations for South Africa
Paul S. Chinowsky; Amy E. Schweikert; Niko L. Strzepek; Kenneth R. Strzepek; and Kyle P. Kwiatkowski WP/105
It's All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ('e') to Crawl the Design Space
Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer WP/104
International Organizations in Development and Global Inequality: The example of the World Bank's pension policy
Martin Koch WP/103
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in South Africa
Johann F. Kirsten WP/102
How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree? Some Evidence on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility from India
Sripad Motiram and Ashish SinghWP/101
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: The Case of Zambia
Antony Chapoto WP/100
The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development
Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka WP/099
Stability and Vulnerability of the Latin American Middle Class
Florencia Torche and Luis F. Lopez-Calv WP/098
Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India
Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee WP/097
The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Egypt
Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim WP/096
The Impact of the 2007–08 Food Price Crisis in a Major Commodity Exporter: Food Prices, Inflation, and Inclusion in Brazil
Bernardo Mueller and Charles Mueller WP/095
Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in Africa
John Page and Måns Söderbom WP/094
Aid and Investment in Statistics for Africa
Jeffery I. Round WP/093
Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa: Policies, politics and inter-governmental relations
Winnie V. Mitullah WP/092
Gender Mainstreaming in Nordic Development Agencies: Seventeen years after the Beijing Conference
Malokele Nanivazo and Lucy Scott WP/091
Civil Service Reform: A review
Sarah Repucci WP/090
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