DEV Working Paper No. 312: South-South Migration in West Africa: Addressing the Challenge of Immigrant Integration

04-May-2012

By Jason Gagnon and David Khoudour-Castéras

Although South-South migrants face much of the same discrimination and integration challenges as their South-North counterparts, South-South flows need to be analysed from a different standpoint.

DEV Working Paper No. 311: The Product Space and the Middle-Income Trap: Comparing Asian and Latin American Experiences

03-May-2012

By Anna Jankowska, Arne Nagengast and José Ramón Perea

Rapid and sustained economic growth in the emerging world has brought new members into the group of middle-income countries. Reaching this level of income has historically presented countries with new challenges, resulting in slowing growth and an entrapment in 'the middle-income trap'.

DEV Working Paper No. 310: Korea's Low-Carbon Green Growth Strategy

21-Mar-2012

This paper examines Korea’s low-carbon green growth strategy with a focus on three pillars: regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, incentive mechanisms for businesses to develop green technologies, and public information tools to increase awareness and demand for green products.

DEV Working Paper No. 309: Making Reform Happen in Colombia: The process of Regional Transfer Reform

31-Jan-2012

Sebastián Nieto-Parra and Mauricio Olivera

This paper studies the interaction between different actors in the policy-making process of fiscal transfer reform in Colombia, analysing this reform and showing that economic context and institutional factors were fundamental in achieving the reform.

DEV Working Paper No. 308: Technological Upgrading in China and India: What do we know?

31-Jan-2012

Jaejoon WOO

This paper studies technological upgrades in China and India, which export products associated with productivity levels higher than their income level. China is the world's largest exporter of high-tech products. India has been more successful in business and IT services exports.

DEV Working Paper No. 307: Labour Market Changes, Labour Disputes and Social Cohesion in China

05-Jan-2012

This paper documents the increase in labour disputes in China and seeks to understand their determinants. It was written as a background document for the Perspectives on Global Development 2012: Social cohesion in a shifting world along with case studies on Chile and India.

DEV Working Paper No. 306: Revisiting MDG Cost Estimates from a Domestic Resource Mobilisation Perspective

20-Dec-2011

Vararat Atisophon, Jesus Bueren, Gregory De Paepe, Christopher Garroway and Jean-Philippe Stijns

Updated estimates of the additional financial resources needed in developing countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are presented in this paper. The international community needs to broaden its notion of development co-operation to reach the MDGs by the 2015 deadline.

DEV Working Paper No. 305: Being "Middle-Class" in Latin America

25-Oct-2011

By Francesca Castellani and Gwenn Parent

This paper joins the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, analysing its structure and characteristics. The paper investigates inter-class mobility potential and its evolution over time.

DEV Working Paper No. 304: The Process of Reform in Latin America: A Review Essay

20-Oct-2011

By Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Juliana Londoño and Sebastián Nieto-Parra

In this paper, we study political economy aspects and the policy making process of reforms in what we identify as the five critical steps through the “life cycle” of a policy reform: the Planning, Dialogue, Adoption, Implementation and Sustainability stages.

DEV Working Paper No. 303: Sovereign Wealth Funds as Investors in Africa: Opportunities and Barriers

23-Sep-2011

Based on historical databases on SWFs’ transactions, this paper shows that SWFs can facilitate up to 50% of the investment needs in infrastructure in Africa over the next decade. However, there are specific barriers to SWF investments, both in the short and longer term.