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New industrial policy and the extractive industriesIndustrial policy is back. Advocates for industrial policy argue that the important question is not whether such policies should be applied at all, but how to design and implement them...
Natural resources extractives industry GovernanceWorking Paper
Do fences make good neighbours?: Evidence from an insurgency in IndiaIndia has employed a variety of military, political, and economic measures to combat the long running insurgency in Kashmir with little evidence on what contributes to stability in the region...
Conflict Violence GovernanceWorking Paper
Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance: Lessons from Nigeria and GhanaDonor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country’s development prospects...
Oil Gas Natural resourcesWorking Paper
Political economy and governanceThis paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda...
Natural resources Extractives Political economyPresentation
Fragile Development 2015-2030: Understanding how insecurity and poor governance will affect sustainable developmentOn 19th June UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Research Fellow Roger Williamson, participated in a panel entitled “Fragile Development 2015-2030: Understanding how insecurity and poor governance will affect sustainable development”. The panel was...
News
Aid in a Post-2015 WorldNow out the ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid programme summary which outlines 15 key findings relevant to the post-2015 agenda.
Foreign aid Social sectors Gender equalityProject meeting
Good aid in hard places: Learning from what has worked in fragile contextsGovernance & Fragility Governance has become a major concern for both donors and aid recipient countries since the late 1980s. Very poor quality governance is also one of the defining characteristics of state fragility, and social unrest and...
Project meeting
Aid and institution-building in fragile states: Lessons from comparative casesGovernance & Fragility Governance has become a major concern for both donors and aid recipient countries since the late 1980s. Very poor quality governance is also one of the defining characteristics of state fragility, and social unrest and...
Results Meeting
Challenges in Fragility and GovernanceSince the mid-1990s foreign aid has become increasingly concerned with fragility and governance. Given the acknowledgement of the role of the state in providing the conditions for peace, progress and prosperity, foreign aid has concentrated much...
Panel discussion
Development success: Strategies and lessons from more advanced countries and the developing worldVideo: panel discussion which took place on Monday 18 March 2013 in Oxford: http://fsmevents.com/csae/session6/ What lessons can be learnt from developed countries that might be useful for developing and emerging economies? With an emphasis on long-...
Project
Experimental and non-experimental methods to study government performance: contributions and limitsTheme: Development finance
In recent years, field experiments using randomized trials have gained increasing popularity in the field of development economics. In particular, scholars have argued strongly for their use as the best means of identifying ‘what works’...
Field experiments Non-experimental methods GovernanceProject
Building state capability through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)Theme: Development finance
As a sub-component of the Research and Communication on Foreign Aid (ReCom) programme, the PDIA project feeds into the themes: governance and fragility & social sectors. An integral part of development is the expansion of capability of the state...
Foreign aid Development Social sectorsProject
Fragility and developmentTheme: 2006-07
In recent years there is a growing concern within the international donor community regarding the plight of a special group of countries labeled as 'Fragile States'. These states, which according to current donor lists currently numbers more...
Development and Finance Fragility Fragile statesProject
Southern engines of global growthTheme: 2006-07
The project centers on the inter-linkages between the major developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s growth on smaller economies and the rest...
Globalization and Trade Growth TradeAnnual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 4 - Globalization and Appropriate GovernanceGlobalization has come in for indiscriminate attack from critics who do not distinguish between different types of globalization (e.g. freer trade, freer capital flows, freer direct investment, and freer immigration) or between very different but...