Making Peace Work
The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction
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Lessons for Japanese Foreign Aid from Research on Aid’s Impact
Japan has provided foreign aid for some 60 years. Japan’s aid has grown and evolved as it became richer and as the develo** world changed too. Japan is a strong supporter of the Millennium Development Goals ...
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Violent Conflict and Chronic Poverty
Conflict prevails in all societies, at all levels of per capita income. Successful societies are those that build institutions, both formal and informal, capable of channelling conflict into mechanisms for its...
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Chronic Poverty in the Global Economy
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A Way Forward
By way of conclusion, we will discuss how to secure broad-based recovery in the post-conflict period. The state’s role, versus that of the market, in driving economic development is a question as old as develo...
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The Multi-Dimensional Challenge of Mass Violent Conflict
War has become central to the development policy debate in a way that the pioneers of development studies would have found inconceivable. Although struggles for independence were often bloody, there was at lea...
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Achieving Peace, Participation and Prosperity
One of the difficulties faced by everyone working with post-conflict countries is the multiplicity of ‘overarching’ goals. The first of these is ‘peace’: most ambitiously, a complete end to large-scale organiz...
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Development Finance in the Global Economy: The Road Ahead
Today, large volumes of global savings move through an increasingly integrated global capital market in search of investment opportunities. Capital is abundant. The develo** world is receiving an increasing ...
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Debt Relief: The Development and Poverty Impact
No development issue has quite captured the public imagination in the same way as debt relief. The juxtaposition of the billions of dollars owed and the grinding poverty of the countries concerned deliver an e...
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International Finance and the Develo** World: The Next 20 Years
In August 1986, the year after UNU-WIDER began its work, the Institute hosted a conference to honour the memory of Carlos Díaz-Alejandro. Nearly 20 years on it is instructive to look over the resulting confere...
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Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa: Some Analytical Issues
In contrast to much of the twentieth century, when warfare between rich states was the norm, contemporary conflict now occurs almost exclusively in poor develo** countries and is mainly internal in nature (a...
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Resolving the HIPC Problem: Is Good Policy Enough?
Unless we understand, and act upon, the causes of the present HIPC problem, its recurrence is almost certain.1 Poor countries, and poor people, will be condemned to live through repeated cycles of borrowing, defa...
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Introduction
The debt problem of poor countries has attracted considerable public attention, not least through the well-targeted campaigns of Jubilee 2000 and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as civil so...
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Mozambique: Economic Reform and Reconstruction
Mozambique today faces the enormous task of rebuilding its economy and society after a sixteen-year war which killed or maimed over one million people and destroyed much of the rural economy’s infrastructure. ...
