Development
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Working Paper
Current External Challenges to the Economic Expansion of Emerging Markets
Mar 2023
A Balance-of-Payments Constrained Growth Perspective
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The Two Global Consensuses That Defined the Development Paradigm in Ghana Are Under Threat
Feb 27, 2023
Honorary Vice President at IMANI Center for policy and education, Bright Simons, on the challenges Ghana is facing
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Global Value Chains and Income Distribution Profiles: A World Survey
Feb 6, 2023
How can we quantify the wage share implied by varying degrees and types of participation to Global Value Chains?
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Working Paper
Distributive Profiles Associated with Domestic Versus International Specialization in Global Value Chains
Feb 2023
If primary commodities and mid-to-high-tech manufacturing products are produced by industries with different wage shares, there are distributive implications of deepening trade integration with certain regions with respect to others.
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High-level Panel Discussion: Development Prospects in a Fractured World
Dec 15, 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.
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Il faut une analyse désagrégée des conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine sur les économies en Afrique de l’Ouest
Dec 13, 2022
Entretien avec Gilles Yabi, directeur exécutif du Think Tank ouest-africain WATHI, sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique
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The Impact of the War in Ukraine on West Africa Requires a Disaggregated Analysis
Dec 12, 2022
An interview with Gilles Yabi, executive director of the West African Think Tank WATHI, on food security in Africa
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Food Security in Africa: “This Crisis Has Shown the Limits to Africa’s Resilience”
Dec 1, 2022
“We risk a global decoupling in which East and West face off in a cold war, and Africans are caught in the middle,” says Professor Carlos Lopes in an interview with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin
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Sécurité alimentaire en Afrique: « Nous apportons des réponses de court terme à des problèmes de moyen-long terme »
Nov 10, 2022
Quels sont les problèmes à long terme qui doivent être résolus et quelles sont les solutions disponibles?
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Food Security in Africa: “We Are Bringing Short Term Responses to Long Term Problems”
Nov 10, 2022
What are the long-term problems that need to be addressed and what solutions are out there?
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Collateral Damage From Higher Interest Rates
Nov 5, 2022
Why to Be Wary of Another Volcker-Type Monetary Tightening
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Working Paper
Inflation in the Time of Corona and War: The Plight of the Developing Economies
Nov 2022
Fears of ‘stagflation’ have come back to haunt macroeconomic policy makers all over the globe
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China’s Development Path: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition
Aug 22, 2022
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
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Working Paper Series
China’s Development Path: Government, Business, and Globalization in an Innovating Economy
Aug 2022
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
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5th Annual UNCTAD-YSI Summer School
Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order
YSI
WorkshopAug 1–6, 2022
The 5th UNCTAD YSI Summer School provides an opportunity to explore the Challenges and Opportunities of a New International Economic Order. The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.