Blog
Who Captures Value in Global Supply Chains?: The Case of Nokia's N95 Smartphone
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Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Petri Rouvinen, Timo Seppälä, Pekka Ylä-Anttila
May 2011
Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Petri Rouvinen, Timo Seppälä, Pekka Ylä-Anttila Available statistics biases the true picture of the current stage of globalization...
Blog
Urbanization and Development in Asia: Linkages with Globalization and Migration
Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, was the venue for the launch on 16 June 2012 of the just...
Blog
Good Governance: Is it about Appearance or Action?
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Matt Andrews
May 2013
27 May 2013 Matt Andrews, Harvard Kennedy School A growing governance agenda and post-2015 ambitions The governance agenda has grown rapidly in the...
Blog
Aligning Elites with Development
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Alice H. Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, James Robinson
August 2009
Alice Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, and James Robinson To understand what role elites play in the process of economic development, we need to establish...
Blog
Foreign Aid: Down but Not Out
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Peter J. Burnell
January 2009
Peter Burnell The UN Doha Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development, held late in 2008, reminds us of how far foreign aid has...
Blog
Migration Matters
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Christina Boswell, Jeff Crisp, George J. Borjas
2002
by Christina Boswell, Jeff Crisp and George Borjas The globalization of the world economic and social structure - in terms of increased volumes of...
Blog
Small Open Economies and Vagaries of Globalization
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Jukka Pekkarinen
2003
by Jukka Pekkarinen Empirical investigations of the growth of nations give some support to the hypothesis that smallness as such is a factor that...
Blog
The Impact of Globalization on the World’s Poor
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Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke
2004
by Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke The process of globalization provides a golden opportunity for mankind to contribute to a major reduction of...
Blog
Globalization, Poverty and Inequality
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Kaushik Basu
2004
by Kaushik Basu 1. Forbes Online, 27 February 2003 (1), offers some information about the world’s ten richest people. Much of the information would...
Blog
Human Rights and Globalization
by Tony Addison Economic Development underpins Democracy and Human Rights Democracies have now replaced authoritarian regimes in many parts of the...
Blog
Managing Globalization: Development Questions and Challenges for Africa
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Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
2005
by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino Trade and financial liberalisation have been a feature of the world economy in recent decades. Multilateral tariffs...
Blog
Global Production Networks: Risks and Opportunities
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Henryk Kierzkowski
2001
by Henryk Kierzkowski Globalization, a term that has entered everyday usage, means more than the intensification of trade relations. Improvements in...
Presentation
Urbanization and development in Asia: Multidimensional perspectives
Presenter: Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, UNDP Nepal, formerly UNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow. Over the last few decades, globalization has had a visible effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration patterns...
Sat, 16 June 2012
Central European University,
Budapest,
Hungary
Past event
Seminar
Maailma Kylässä - World Village Festival
For complete information on this event, please refer to the official homepage (Finnish) http://www.maailmakylassa.fi/english/home (English) The event offers new perspectives on tolerant multiculturalism, development cooperation, global issues and...
Sat, 26 May 2012
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Sun, 27 May 2012
Kaisaniemi Park & Railway Square,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Seminar
Maailma Kylässä - World Village Festival
For complete information on this event, please refer to the official homepage (Finnish) http://www.maailmakylassa.fi/english/home (English) The event offers new perspectives on tolerant multiculturalism, development cooperation, global issues and...
Sat, 25 May 2013
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Sun, 26 May 2013
Kaisaniemi Park & Railway Square,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Lecture
Real business cycle theory
Invited Guest Lecturer, Yongfu Huang, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER on 'Real Business Cycle Theory'. The lecture is on real business cycle model covering the effects of global shocks on economic fluctuations and business cycle in the context of...
Thu, 11 October 2012
University of Jyväskylä,
Jyväskylä,
Finland
Past event