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Science and Survival: Is an Agriculture-led Developmental Model the Way Forward for sub-Saharan Africa?
9 May 2013 Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen and Roger Williamson Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century, (edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim...
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China and India’s Development Strategies: Lessons for Developing Countries
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Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Guanghua Wan
October 2010
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan China and India have become global economic powers. Even at the market exchange rate, China overtook Japan...
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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Development: Lessons from Finland
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Otto Toivanen
October 2009
Otto Toivanen At least since the 1950s it has been recognized that innovation is central to economic growth. It has also been well understood that...
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Fintech and domestic savings: A perfect match coming true in sub-Saharan Africa
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Josphat Machagua
November 2022
Financial technology (FinTech) is a major force disrupting the structure of financial services in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and enabling access of...
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ICT and Economic Growth in Asia
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Sailesh K. Jha
2002
by Sailesh K. Jha Exports have been one of the key drivers of economic growth in several Asian DMCs in the 1990s. During this period the composition...
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Celebrating 30 years of research for development
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Roger Williamson
September 2015
The celebration of the 30th Anniversary of UNU-WIDER presented the ideal opportunity to look back, take stock, and plan ahead. Where else can a group...
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Productivity, IT, and the New Economy
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Kevin J. Stiroh
2002
by Kevin J Stiroh The strength of the U.S. economy in the second half of the 1990s has led many observers to assert that something fundamental had...
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Does the New Economy Need All the Old IPR Institutions?
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Paul A. David
2002
by Paul A David In the knowledge-driven economy the continuous search for new, reliable knowledge and the generation and absorbing of new information...
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The Weightless Developing Economy
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Danny Quah
2000
by Danny T. Quah For the last fifty years, economists and development practitioners have viewed the accumulation of physical capital-machines...
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The Entrepreneurship-Innovation Nexus in Development
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Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai
March 2011
Wim Naudé and Adam Szirmai Nobody can be left in any doubt as to the importance of innovation for prosperity on reading[i] that ‘People living in the...
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What can we Learn from Popular Representations of Development?
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Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock, David Lewis
October 2013
17 October 2013 David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock When asked why she wrote novels about poverty rather than gather what we would now...
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Telling the Truth about Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Development…: It just happens to be an Inconvenient Truth
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Han Ei Chew
August 2013
22 August 2013 Han Ei Chew I am compelled to let a rattling skeleton out of the closet of ICT and development. But when I am done telling the...
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From the Editor's Desk (April 2013)
30 April 2013 Tony Addison As April closes, our thoughts turn to UNU-WIDER’s spring/summer programme. And it’s a busy one. June sees us back in...
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WIDER Annual Lecture 18: Managing Structural Transformation
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Roger Williamson
December 2014
18 December 2014 Roger Williamson At the UN headquarters in New York on 18 November 2014, Peter Timmer, emeritus professor from Harvard, showed how...
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From the Editor's Desk (February 2013)
Tony Addison As the snow continues to lie deep across Helsinki, UNU-WIDER is putting the last touches to the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the...
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From the Editor's Desk (January 2013)
Tony Addison We start the new year at a fast pace, preparing for the ReCom results meeting on ‘Aid and the Social Sectors’ in Stockholm on 13th March...