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WWW includes: full text of recent working papers, Research for Action series, and Policy Briefs; details of other publications (with short abstracts); WIDER Angle Newsletter, review of its current research and staff.
2000-2001 research themes are:
Transition
- Privatisation, Unemployment and Welfare in China
- Micro-simulation of Tax-Benefit Reforms in Russia
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Long-term Development in the CFA-zone Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Institutional Capabilities, Reform Ownership and Development in SSA
Institutional, Poverty and Distributive Issues
- The Social Impact of Privatization and Regulation of Utilities and Social Services in Latin America
- Insurance against Poverty
- Refugees, International Illegal Migration and Poverty
- New Fiscal Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
International Financial and Growth Issues
- Capital Flows to Developing Countries since the Asian Crisis: How to Manage their Volatility?
- Production, employment and income distribution in the global digital economy
- Property Rights Regimes, Microeconomic Incentives, and Development
National and Global Governance
- Globalisation and the Obstacles to the Successful Integration of Small Vulnerable Economies
- Why Some Countries Avoid Conflicts while Others Fail