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Dr Dirk Willem te Velde is the programme leader of the Investment and Growth Programme. He has extensive research experience including for DFID’s research window; the Research Programme Consortium on Institutions and Pro-Poor Growth, and has led teams providing policy advice in-country in sub-Saharan Africa (e.g. Malawi, Botswana) and the Caribbean, and has worked with and for business and NGOs. He has advised a wide variety of developing countries and UN agencies, the Wold Bank and the EC. He has written and edited four books, 15 journal articles and 20 book chapters related to growth, trade and investment issues. He has a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London.
Dirk's interests include include economic growth, foreign direct investment effects and policies; trade in services; the WTO, regional integration and impact assessments; public goods; Africa and the Caribbean.
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Authors: Dirk Willem te Velde (Overseas Development Institute) James Mackie (European Centre for Development Policy Management) and Imme Scholz (Deutsche Institut für Entwicklungspolitik)
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The third edition of the European Report on Development focuses on water, energy and land. It examines the constraints on each, the interrelationships between them and then considers how they can be managed together to promote growth in developing countries that is both socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable.
- 208 pages
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Published by
European Commission
This resources was an output of the following ODI project: ERD 2011/2012: European Report on Development
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Download from erd-report.eu
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Authors: Detlef van Vuuren, Marcel Kok (eds) et al with Claire Melamed, Andrew Scott, Dirk Willem te Velde and Steve Wiggins (ODI)
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This report analyses how combinations of technological measures and changes in consumption patterns could contribute to achieving a set of sustainability objectives, taking into account the interlinkages between them.
- 50 pages
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ISBN: 978-90-78645-98-6
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Published by
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
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Authors: Mahvash Saeed Qureshi, Dirk Willem te Velde
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This paper examines whether an effective state-business relationship, facilitated by an organised private sector, improves firm performance in seven sub-Saharan African countries: Benin, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa and Zambia. The findings reveal that, on average, state-business relationships enhance firm productivity by about 25–35 per cent in sub-Saharan African firms. This effect appears to set in through an improved investment climate—including reduced corruption, better provision of public utilities and information technology development—and higher labour productivity. These gains are not confined to small and medium sized firms but have a similar positive impact on large firms. Further, both domestic and foreign-owned firms appear to benefit from joining business associations, although the impact is somewhat larger for the latter.
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Published by
Development Studies Association
as part of the
Journal of International Development
series.
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Authors: Kunal Sen and Dirk Willem te Velde
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This is a chapter in 'Good Growth and Governance in Africa Rethinking Development Strategies (eds. Akbar Noman, Kwesi Botchwey, Howard Stein, and Joseph E. Stiglitz.C). The book focuses on why economic growth performance of Sub-Saharan Africa has been disappointing on balance over the past 50 years.
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Published by
Oxford University Press
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Authors: Dirk Willem te Velde
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This paper explores economic policies in G-20 and African countries during the global financial crisis and argues that developed G-20 countries are currently not always regarded as the right master, and African countries may have outgrown apprentice status on some issues, so it may be inappropriate to think only in terms of lessons from G-20 countries for Africa.
- 26 pages
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Published by
Wiley-Blackwell
as part of the
Africa Development Review
series.
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Download from onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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