CIAO DATE: 10/01

WIDER Angle
World Institute for Development Economics Research

Number 2/2000
December 2000

World Institute for Development Economics Research

1. Tony Shorrocks, New WIDER Director
   
   
2. Professor Jagdish N. Bhagwati Delivers WIDER 2000 Annual Lecture
   Globalization and Appropriate Governance
   
   
   • The Policy Scene
     
   • Governance of the Globalization Process
     
   
   
3. Child Well-Being in an Expanding EU
   by John Micklewright and Kitty Stewart
   
   
4. Globalization, Marginalization and Development
   by S. Mansooh Murshed
   
   
   • The Challenges
     
   
   
5. New WIDER Project on Conflict and its Causes
   'Why Some Countries Avoid Conflict while Others Fail'
   
   
6. New Patterns of Social Provision: Towards Welfare Pluralism
   by Germano Mwabu, Cecilia Ugaz and Gordon White
   
   
   • Ensuring Access to Social Provision
     
   • Towards New Partnerships
     
   
   
7. Current WIDER Research Projects
   
   
   • 1. Transition
     
   • 1.1 Privatisation, Unemployment and Welfare in China
     
   • 1.2 Micro-simulation of Tax-Benefit Reforms in Russia
     
   • 2. Sub-Saharan Africa
     
   • 2.2 Institutional Capabilities, Reform Ownership and Development in SSA
     
   • 3. Institutional, Poverty and Distributive Issues
     
   • 3.1 The Social Impact of Privatisation and Regulation of Utilities and Social Services in Latin America
     
   • 3.2 Insurance against Poverty
     
   • 3.4 New Fiscal Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
     
   • 4. International Financial and Growth Issues
     
   • 4.1 Capital Flows to Developing Countries since the Asian Crisis: How to Manage their Volatility?
     
   • 4.2 Production, Employment and income Distribution in the Global Digital Economy
     
   • 4.3 Property Rights Regimes, Microeconomic Incentives, and Development
     
   • 5. National and Global Governance
     
   • 5.1 Globalisation and the Obstacles to the Successful Integration of Small Vulnerable Economics
     
   • 5.2 Why Some Countries Avaoid Conflict while Others Fail
     
   
   
8. WIDER Development Conference on Growth and Poverty
   
   
9. WIDER Conference on Debt Relief
   
   
10. News and Events
    
    
    • Conferences 2001
      
    • Project Meetings 2001
      
    • Lecture Series
      
    • Forthcoming Courses
      
    • Staff Movements
      
    • 2001 Board Meeting
      
    
    
11. WIDER Publications
    
    
    • Research for Action
      
    • Working Papers
      
    • Books
      
    • Forthcoming Books
      
    
    
12. WIDER Discussion Paper
    
    

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