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Video Interviews and Debates
b. Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and
Meetings (Videos)
c. Newspaper
Articles
d. Blog Posts
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Media Coverage
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Other
Articles
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a) Video Interviews and Debates
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b) Conferences, Seminars, Workshops
and Meetings
(Videos)
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‘COVID-19
and Development – Effects and New Realities for the
Global South. Special session | In memory of Benno
Ndulu’. UNU-WIDER.
Published on 17 September 2021. |
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‘Think Development - Think WIDER.
Plenary 5, Closing Remarks -
Finn Tarp’. UNU-WIDER.
Published on 10 October 2018. |
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‘WIDER Annual Lecture 21 -
Welcome by Director Finn Tarp’.
UNU-WIDER. Published on 30
October 2017. |
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‘Think Development - Think
WIDER. Plenary 1 - Finn Tarp’.
UNU-WIDER. Published on 1
October 2018. |
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‘Plenary:
Development Policy - Doing (and Teaching) Economics for
the Real World’.
Eighteenth IEA World Congress. Speaker:
Dani Rodrik, Chair: Finn Tarp and Discussant: Erik
Berglof. The video starts at minute 4:25. Published on 21 June 2017. |
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‘What is the Role of the International
Community?’
Responding to Crises Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
UNU-WIDER.
Publsihed on
16
October
2016. |
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‘WATCH: 'Made in Africa': Experts debate African
Industrialization and Structural Transformation’.
Africa in Focus. Brookings. Publsihed on 23 May 2016 by
Christina Golubski. |
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‘Inequality Conference - Opening’.
Conference: Inequality - measurement, trends, impacts,
and policies, Helsinki, Finland.
UNU-WIDER. Published on 10
October 2014. |
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‘Finn Tarp -
Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price
Spike in Vietnam'.
Conference: New Directons in the Fight Against Hunger
and Malnutrition.
Cornell Transnational Learning.
Published on
24
April
2014. |
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‘JICA-RI Seminar:
Aid, Growth, Poverty and the Changing Global Market'.
JICA Research Institute.
Published on
22 April
2014. |
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‘ReCom: Aid for
Gender Equality 7/7 - Conclusion'.
ReCom Research Results Meeting.
UNU-WIDER. Published on
15
January
2014. |
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‘How to make news
from foreign aid? - UNU-WIDER at WCSJ 2013 1/5'.
8th World Conference of Science Journalists.
UNU-WIDER
Published on 15
July 2013. |
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‘How to make news
from foreign aid? - UNU-WIDER at WCSJ 2013 2/5'.
8th World Conference of Science Journalists.
UNU-WIDER
Published on 15
July 2013. |
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‘ReCom: Aid and Our
Changing Environment 17/24 - Research Synthesis'.
ReCom Results Meeting: Aid and our changing Environment,
4 June 2013, Stockholm, Sweden.
UNU-WIDER. Published on
July 9
2013. |
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‘ReCom: Aid and the
Social Sector 2/8 - Finn Tarp'.
ReCom Results Meeting: Aid and the Social Sectors, 13
March 2013, Stockholm, Sweden.
UNU-WIDER. Published on
8 April
2013. |
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‘UNU-WIDER Sept
2012: Closing Remarks'.
Conference on Climate Change & Development Policy, 28-29
September 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
UNU-WIDER. Published on
29 November
2012. |
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‘UNU-WIDER Sept
2012: Opening Welcome and Conference Overview'.
Conference on Climate Change & Development Policy, 28-29
September 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
UNU-WIDER. Published on
29 November
2012. |
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‘ReCom: Jobs - Aid
at Work seminar 9/10 - Sam Jones, Finn Tarp and Martin
Rama'.
Jobs - Aid at Work, 8 October 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark.
UNU-WIDER. Published on
31
October
2012. |
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‘Welcome by Finn
Tarp, Director UNU-WIDER'.
Conference on Poverty and Behavioural Economics,
Helsinki, Finland.
UNU-WIDER. Published on
14 September
2011. |
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c) Newspaper Articles
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‘Forskere:
En Universel Basisindkomst Kan Have Langvarige Positive
Effekter’. Udvikling,
4 April
2022. With
S. Jones (in Danish). |
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‘Forskere:
Langsigtet Udviklingsbistand Skaber Positive Effekter
for den Enkelte’. Udvikling,
1 June
2021. With
S. Jones (in Danish). |
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‘Vi
har brug for en ny type bistand’. Børsen,
15 January 2016. With
S. Jones (in Danish). |
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‘We
Know that Aid Works’. Børsen,
26 October 2015. With
S. Jones (in Danish). |
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‘Knowledge
via fellowships’ (‘Viden
tur-retur via stipendiater’). Jyllands-Posten, 10
January 2013. With N.E. Koch, M. Broberg, E. Fihl,
S.E.B. Jensen, and A. de Neergaard (in Danish). |
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‘Denmark and Vietnam in a Promising Partnership’. Politiken,
feature article, 17 September 2013, Copenhagen. With S.
Davidsen, H.
Hansen and J.
Rand (in
Danish). |
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‘A
New Vision for the Poorest Farmers’. Politikken,
feature article, 8 October 2003, p. 5. Copenhagen. With
C. F. Bach, N. Kaergaard, A. Larsen and P.
Pinstrup-Andersen (in Danish). |
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‘The
World Bank has it Wrong’. Kristeligt
Dagblad, p. 5, feature article, 27 July 2001. With O.
Winckler Andersen (in
Danish). |
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‘Myths
and Realities Behind Development Aid’. Universitetsavisen,
no. 3, pp. 10-1, feature article, Videnskabet,
University of Copenhagen, 15 February 2001. With
P. Hjertholm (in Danish). |
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‘Limits to Market Competition’. Politiken,
feature article, 9 March 1994, Section 2, p. 5.
Copenhagen. With
H. Aage (in Danish). |
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d) Blog Posts
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‘Overcoming
the challenge of illicit financial flows - Four pieces
of advice for policymakers’. WIDERAngle,
October 2023. |
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‘How
institutions matter in Mozambique’. WIDERAngle,
October 2023. |
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‘From
Monterrey to Addis Ababa, and What
Has Happened
Since?’. WIDERAngle,
March 2023. |
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‘In
Memory of Martin Ravallion - A
Global Leader
in Development
Economics (19 March 1952 – 24
December 2022)’. WIDERAngle,
January 2023.
With
T. Addison and
K. Sen. |
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‘Poverty
and Vulnerability Dynamics in Myanmar’. London
School
of Economics,
18
February 2022.
With
I. Ferreira and
V. Salvucci. |
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‘Understanding
How the Pandemic is Shaping Extreme Poverty: Can Big
Data Help?’ Oxford
Policy Management Institute, Data & Evidence to End
Extreme Poverty (DEEP) project,
16
October 2021.
With
N. Tzavidis,
P. Lanjouw and
L. Scott. |
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‘Global
Inequality May Be Falling, But the Gap Between Haves and
Have-Nots is Growing’. The
Conversation,
2
September 2021.
With
C. Gradin
and
M. Leibbrandt. |
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‘Mozambique's
Difficult Decade: Three Lessons to Inform Next Steps’. The
Conversation,
31
May 2021.
With
S. Jones. |
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‘Mozambique's
Difficult Decade: Three Lessons to Inform Next Steps’. WIDERAngle,
June 2021.
With
S. Jones. |
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‘Adding
Insult to Injury – The Impacts of COVID-19 on Urban
Youth in Mozambique’. WIDERAngle,
April 2021.
With
E-M. Egger and I. Manhique. |
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‘Building Resilience to
Climate Change in Ethiopia - What Do We Know So
Far?’ DERG, The
Story Beneath. Published on 23 October 2019. |
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‘Comprehensive
Policy Change needed in Myanmar to Support Structural
Transformation: Insights from the Myanmar Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprise Survey 2017’. WIDERAngle,
September 2018. |
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‘Income
Inequality in a Globalising World’. Ideas
for India, 17 February 2017. With
L. Roope and
M. Nino-Zarazua. |
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‘Made
in Africa - the future of production on the continent’. World
Economic Forum, 20 January 2017. With
C.
Newman and
J. Page. |
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‘Some
good news from Mozambique: poverty levels have been
reduced’. The
Conversation, 8 November 2016. With
C. Arndt. |
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‘Absolute
versus relative inequality: This is why both matters’. World
Economic Forum,
23 September 2016. With
M. Nino-Zarazua and
L. Roope. |
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‘Income
inequality in a globalising world’. Vox,
20 September 2016. With
M. Nino-Zarazua and
L. Roope. |
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‘How
should the international community respond to migration
and refugees?’. WIDERAngle,
September 2016. With
S. Parviainen. |
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‘An
economist's view on migration and refugees’. WIDERAngle,
September 2016. With
S. Parviainen. |
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‘Done
sensibly, agricultural development can reduce poverty in
Africa’. The
Conversation,
20 April 2016.
With
C. Arndt and
A. Mckay. |
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‘Aid
and Gender - making foreign aid count’. WIDERAngle,
March 2016. |
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‘Aid
and Gender - making foreign aid count’. Wiley
Gender Equality Blog, 16 March 2016. |
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‘Development
Aid Works Over Time, But Must Adapt to 21st-Century
Needs’. The
Conversation,
3 February 2016. With
C. Arndt and
S. Jones. |
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‘Building on Success in Development Aid?’
WIDERAngle, UNU-WIDER,
December 2015. With
C. Arndt. |
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‘Does
Foreign Aid Undermine Political Institutions?’
AidData, 12 November 2015. With
S. Jones. |
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‘Environmental
Change and Economic Development in Africa’.
WIDERAngle, UNU-WIDER, November 2015. |
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‘Does
Aid Make Economic Sense?’
WIDERAngle, UNU-WIDER, 26
March 2014. |
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‘The
Present Development Debate and Beyond’.
WIDERAngle, UNU-WIDER,
February 2013. |
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‘Poverty
Reduction and Economic Structure’.
WIDERAngle, UNU-WIDER,
December 2011. With
C. Arndt,
A. Garcia and
J. Thurlow. |
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‘On
Aid and Growth’.
WIDERAngle, UNU-WIDER,
October 2011. |
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‘UNU-WIDER:
More Needed Than Ever’.
WIDERAngle, UUNU-WIDER, 24
September 2009. |
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Media Coverage
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‘Mozambique:
Growing Inequality Confirmed, Fuelled by Policy
Benefitting Better Off’.
All Africa,
12 July 2019. By Joseph Hanlon. |
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‘Insurance,
not Loan Waivers, Can Pull the Poor out of Debt’.
Livemint,
10 February 2018. By
Ragini Bhuyan. |
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‘Hør
Podcast: Myter om Milliarder’.
Politiken,
15 December 2017. By
Sille Westphal Rasmussen (in Danish). |
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‘University
of the United Nations Warns of Risk of Inequalities in
Mozambique’.
Club of Mozambique,
29
November 2017. |
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‘Number
of Super-Rich People Boom, Poor Households on the Rise’.
VietNamNet, 15
November 2017. |
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‘Few
Rural Families are Able to Access Credit: Report’.
Viet Nam News, 9
November 2017. |
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‘Report
Updates Characteristics of Vietnam's Rural Economy’.
VietNamNet, 8
November 2017. |
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‘Vice
President Bawumia Reveals Migration, Mobility High on
Government Agenda’.
Modern Ghana, 6 October 2017. |
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‘Bawumia
Calls for Broader Research on Migration’.
Ghana Business News, 6 October 2017. |
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‘Vice
President Urges World Leaders to Tackle Migration and
Mobility Issues’.
Ghana News Agency, 5 October 2017. |
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‘Conference
on Migration Begins at University of Ghana’.
Graphic Online, 5 October 2017. |
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‘Team
AfDB at the 'Olympics of Economics'’.
Groupe de la Banque Africaine
de developpement, 14 July 2017. |
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‘Expert
Debunks Myth: No, Development Aid Does Not Increase
Population Growth’.
DR Nyheder, 1 February 2017. |
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‘If Nigeria Truly Wants to Industrialize, It Must Be
Export-Oriented’.
Business Online, 16 August 2016. |
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‘Internet Access - a human right?’ Svenska
Yle,
08 February 2016. By
L. Lindstrom (in
Swedish). |
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‘Development
Aid Works Over Time - But Must Adapt to 21st-Century
Needs’. The
Sierra Leone Telegraph,
4 February 2016. |
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‘Africa:
Development Aid Works Over Time, but Must Adapt to 21
st-Century Needs’. All
Africa,
2 February 2016. |
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‘Dronningen tog imod’.
Berlingske, 14
December
2015
(in Danish). |
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‘After
great promises come difficult choices’. Kristeligt
Dagblad, 24
September
2015. Interview by Birthe Pedersen (in Danish). |
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‘Danida-supported Nordic rural development
research study Vietnam’. ScanAsia, 13
August
2015.
By Joakim Persson. |
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‘Report
Highlights Structural Transformation, Growth in Rural
Areas’.
VietnamPlus,
6
August
2015. |
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‘The
Professor refutes the criticism on development, even if
the money goes sometimes wasted’. Helsingin
Sanomat, 21
February
2015
(in
Finnish). |
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‘Expensive for migrant workers to send
money home’. Svenska
Yle, 1
December
2014 (in Swedish). |
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‘‘Governance key to economic
development’’. The
Korea Herald, 2
September
2014. |
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‘Denmark-sponsored research paints grim
picture of Vietnam small, medium firms’. Tuoi
Tre News, 11
May
2014. |
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‘Mozambique: Growth Has Not Led to Economic
Transformation’. All
Africa, 24
January 2014. |
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‘Minimum wage in Mozambique's industrial
sector higher than productivity of companies’. Macau, 24
January 2014. |
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‘In Vietnam Marriage Makes People Happier:
Study’. VietnamNet, 1
December
2013. |
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‘Democracy
in Indonesia’. Information,
feature article,
10
December 2012. By
Catarina Nedertoft Jessen
(in Danish). |
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‘Research validates foreign aid’. Berlingske, 16
March
2012.
By Ole Damkjær
(in Danish). |
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‘Research validates foreign aid’. DR
Nyheder, 16
March
2012
(in Danish). |
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‘Crisis
Impacts on two-thirds of local SMEs’. Hanoitimes,
feature article,
20
September
2010. |
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‘Lack
of Credit Hampers SMEs’. Viet
Nam News,
18
September
2010. |
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‘Africa Taught Patience’. Helsingin
Sanomat, 4 January
2010.
By Riitta Saarinen (in Finnish). |
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‘Professor
Finn Tarp: Development Aid Must Be Provided even in
Economic Crisis’. Suomen
Kuvalehti, 20
September
2009.
By Kustaa Hulkko
(in
Finnish). |
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f) Other Articles
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‘Professor
Finn Tarp Knighted by Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark’. United
Nations University, 17 December 2015. |
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‘12
University of Copenhagen professors awarded the Knight's
cross’. Universitetsavisen,
University of Copenhagen, 25
November 2015
(in Danish). |
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‘Focus on Poverty: Big data is no shorcut
to equality’.
Sci Dev Net,
14
May 2014.
By
Roger Williamson. |
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‘Is Aid Really Dead?’.
The Povertist,
9 April 2014.
By
Ippel Tsuruga. |
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‘UNU-WIDER
Director Discuss the Roles of Foreign Aid in a Post-2015
Perspective’. Jica
Research Institute, 25 March 2014. |
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‘‘The
Donors' Dilemma’
- Aid and Growth in Africa’. Global
Policy, 6 February 2014. |
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‘The
Minister of Planning and Investment Bui Quang Vinh
presented Medals of Honour to H. E. Ambassador of
Denmark John Nielsen and the Director of UNU-WIDER, Finn
Tarp, Professor at the University of Copenhagen’. The
Central Institute for Economic Managment,
15
January
2014. |
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‘AidData
researchers join summit on aid, changing environment’. William
& Mary News,
12 June 2013.
By Priscilla Caldwell. |
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‘The
Millennium Development Goals come again’. Kepa,
featured
article,
3 May 2012
(in Finnish). |
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‘When the Honey Pot is Opened’. Kehitys
Utveckling,
featured
article,
March
2012,
pp. 36-7 (in Finnish). |
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‘The
Triple Crisis- Finance, Food and Climate Change’. Our
World,
United Nations University,
16 June
2016
with
T. Addison. |
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‘Global
Challenges Demand Rapid Action’. Ekofocus,
5 October 2009
(in
Finnish). |
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‘Appointment:
Finn Tarp’. Universitetsavisen,
University of Copenhagen, 22
September 2009
(in Danish). |
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‘UNU-WIDER
Director Finn Tarp: Global challenges demand rapid
action’. Kehitys
Utveckling,
featured
article,
10
June
2009 (in Finnish). |
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‘Finn
Tarp of Denmark to be next UNU-WIDER director’. United
Nations University,
featured
article,
10
June
2009. |
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‘Development
Economics’. Politen,
no.
2, pp.
4-5, feature article,
May
2007 (in Danish).
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