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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

Latest publications: Journal articles or issues

Development Policy Review

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 May 2011
various authors
The latest issue includes a new DPR Debate entitled ‘Growth Identification and Facilitation: The Role of the State in the Dynamics of Structural Change’, plus other articles on commodity-based trade, poverty research, and technological change in developing countries.

DPR debate - Growth identification and facilitation: the role of the state in the dynamics of structural change

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 May 2011
Justin Lin and Célestin Monga, introduced by Dirk Willem te Velde and with commentaries by Suresh D. Tendulkar, Alice Amsden, K. Y. Amoako, Howard Pack and Wonhyuk Lim
This DPR Debate includes a timely and important contribution by Justin Lin and Célestin Monga on the role of the state in facilitating growth, plus comments from five distinguished specialists in this area.

Distributional aspects of emissions in climate change integrated assessment models

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 May 2011
Energy Policy vol. 39, iss. 5
Nicola Cantore
In this paper two popular climate change integrated assessment models are used to investigate the path and decompose components and sources of future inequality in the emissions distribution. Results prove to be consistent with previous empirical studies and robust enough to model comparison and show that gaps in GDP across world regions will still play a crucial role in explaining different countries contributions to global warming.

Disasters

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 April 2011
Disasters vol. 35, iss. 2
various authors
Articles in the latest issue explore private flood insurance and the epidemiology of tornado destruction in Bangladesh, conflict, human rights and humanitarianism following tsunamis, and managing crises through organisational development. For the full table of contents, or to subscribe or submit an article, please visit wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/disa.

Measuring state-­business relations within developing countries: An application to Indian states

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 April 2011
Massimiliano Calì, Siddhartha Mitra, Purnima Purohit
Effective relations between states and business have been increasingly identified as an important institution for sustaining economic development. This paper constructs quantitative indices measuring the quality of state–business relations (SBRs) across Indian states in the 1985–2008 period.

Working with the Grain? Rethinking African Governance

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 14 March 2011
Richard C. Crook and David Booth (eds.)
At the heart of current policy thinking about Africa there is a significant knowledge gap concerning governance and development. This IDS Bulletin is concerned with what can be done about that, drawing on new findings from the research consortium, Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP). APPP is committed to discovering forms of governance that work better for development than those prescribed by the current ‘good governance’ orthodoxy. It aims to do so chiefly by examining the range of post-colonial experience in sub-Saharan Africa focusing especially on under-appreciated patterns of difference in institutions and outcomes.

Do effective state business relations matter for economic growth? Evidence from Indian states

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 9 March 2011
World Development volume 38, issue 9
Massimilliano Cali
This paper examines the impact of effective state–business relations on economic growth across Indian states over the period 1985–2006. This paper proposes a measure that captures the various dimensions of effective state–business relations at the sub-national level, and estimate standard growth regressions using dynamic panel data methods. Results show that effective state–business relations contribute significantly to economic growth and appear to be driven by the intensity of the interactions between the state and the private sector.

Call for papers - special issue of Disasters journal on 'Humanitarian action in urban areas'

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 4 March 2011
Sara Pantuliano and Vicki Metcalfe
We welcome submissions of abstracts by 4 April 2011, sent to hpgresearch@odi.org.uk. The deadline for full articles is 27 June 2011 (max. 8,000 words). Given space limitations in the Special Issue, we reserve the right to make a selection of the most interesting submissions. To request further information, please use the email above.

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