Recently added articles from WIDER Angle:

Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it.

Dec 01, 2007; Collier, Paul ... A large group of smallish countries totalling about a billion people have sheered off from the rest of mankind. As the world becomes more socially integrated this giant pool of poverty will be both unacceptable and explosive. It is the world's biggest economic problem and we need to do ...

Applying behavioural economics to development policy.

Dec 01, 2007; Anderson, C. Leigh ... Behavioural economics combines the insights of psychology and economics to better understand and predict decision making by considering how, for example, emotions and attitudes (psychological tendencies) influence how preferences translate into choices. Applying behavioural ...

Globalization, growth, and poverty in Africa.

Dec 01, 2007; Nissanke, Machiko ... African countries have benefited relatively less from the positive effects of globalization than other parts of the world in terms of economic growth and development. Following largely an inward-oriented development strategy in the early decades of the post-independence period, the ...

Stranger than Fiction? Institutions and economic development.

Dec 01, 2007; Chang, Ha-Joon ... Mainstream economists used to treat institutions as mere 'details' that gets in the way of good economics. Then from the mid-1990s, everyone, including the IMF and the World Bank, suddenly started to emphasize the role of institutions in economic development. There are a few reasons behind ...

A fiscal state with its Royal Navy:institutions and the industrial revolution.

Dec 01, 2007; Karl O'Brien, Patrick ... 'Good' institutions have become a core ingredient of most modern day explanations of economic growth and development. The recently published WIDER book on Institutional Change and Economic Development (see the previous Angle article by Ha-Joon Chang) emphasizes that what is appropriate as ...

Fragile States--Fragile Groups: tackling economic and social vulnerability.(WIDER Conference)(Conference news)

Dec 01, 2007 ... WIDER hosted two major international conferences during 2007 in Helsinki, on themes that reflect the increasing diversity in development performance across the world. The first conference, on 'Fragile States - Fragile Groups' was held on 15-16 June 2007. Many of the world's poorest and ...

Southern Engines of Global Growth: China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.(WIDER Conference)(Brief article)

Dec 01, 2007 ... WIDER's second major development conference of 2007, on the theme of the 'Southern Engines of Global Growth', took place in Helsinki on 7-8 September 2007. The conference reflects the fact that China, India, Brazil and South Africa (CIBS) have an important impact on the global economy ...

WIDER special events and book launch.

Dec 01, 2007 ... The speakers of the first plenary session of the WIDER Conference on Fragile States - Fragile Groups: Tackling Economic and Social Vulnerability, organized in Helsinki on 15-16 June 2007. From left: Paul Collier, Rob Vos, and Patrick Guillaumont. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

WIDER annual lecture 10.(2006 WIDER Annual Lecture)(Report)(Brief article)

Dec 01, 2007 ... Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies by Angus Deaton [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is now widely agreed that comparisons of living standards across countries, or across households within countries, should ...

Measuring human well-being: key findings and policy lessons.(Policy Briefs)(Report)(Brief article)

Dec 01, 2007 ... David Clark and Mark McGillivray UNU-Policy Brief 3, 2007 An outcome of the WIDER research project Social Development Indicators that sought to provide insights into how human well-being might be better conceptualized and, in particular, measured, this Policy Brief outlines a ...

The significance of transport costs in Africa.(Policy Briefs)(Case study)(Brief article)

Dec 01, 2007 ... Wim Naude and Marianne Matthee UNU-Policy Brief 5, 2007 The success of Africa's exports, as well as its spatial development, depends on lowering transport costs. This Policy Brief addresses pertinent questions such as 'what are transport costs?', 'do transport costs matter for ...

Stranger than Fiction? Understanding institutionl change and economic development.(Policy Briefs)(Case study)(Brief article)

Dec 01, 2007 ... Ha-Joon Chang UNU-Policy Brief 6, 2007 The 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 ...

Institutional change and economic development.(Books)(Brief article)(Book review)

Dec 01, 2007; Chang, Ha-Joon ... Edited by Ha-Joon Chang UNU Press (paperback) 9789280811438 --North America / Geneva edition Anthem Press (paperback) 9781843312819 --UK / Europe / South Asian edition, October 2007 Recognizing the complexity of the issues involved, this book ...

New in paperback: linking the formal and informal economy: concepts and policies.(Books)(Brief article)(Book review)

Dec 01, 2007; Guha-Khasnobis, Basuded ... Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Ravi Kanbur, and Elinor Ostrom (paperback) 9780199237296 October 2007 UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics Oxford University Press Multidisciplinary in nature, ...

Food insecurity, vulnerability and human rights failure.(Books)(Brief article)(Book review)

Dec 01, 2007; Guha-Khasnobis, Basuded ... Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya and Benjamin Davis (hardback) 978023055376 October 2007 Studies in Development Economics and Policy Palgrave Macmillan [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Do we have a right to food? The ...

Food security: indicators, measurement, and the impact of trade openness.(Forthcoming Books)(Brief article)(Book review)

Dec 01, 2007; Guha-Khasnobis, Basuded ... Edited by Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya and Benjamin Davis (hardback) 9780199236558 December 2007 UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics Oxford University Press Hunger is addressed from a variety of perspectives that are new and ...

Understanding inequality and poverty in China.(Forthcoming Books)(Brief article)(Book review)

Dec 01, 2007; Wan, Guanghua ... Edited by Guanghua Wan (hardback) 9780230538047 January 2008 Studies in Development Economics and Policy, Palgrave Macmillan ...