Development Economics Research Group (DERG)

Research output

Research output per year 1981 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019

• 254 Journal article
• 202 Working paper
• 83 Book chapter
• 50 Report
• 126 More
  • 21 Ph.D. thesis
  • 18 Anthology
  • 17 Encyclopedia chapter
  • 15 Book
  • 13 Literature review
  • 8 Paper
  • 8 Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
  • 8 Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article
  • 3 Contribution to newspaper - Comment/debate
  • 3 Editorial
  • 3 Review
  • 3 Memorandum
  • 2 Other contribution
  • 1 Comment/debate
  • 1 Contribution to newspaper - Review
  • 1 Letter
  • 1 Net publication - Internet publication

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2017

  Growth and Poverty: A Pragmatic Assessment and Future Prospects

  Arndt, C., Leyaro, V., Mahrt, K. & Tarp, F., 2017, Tanzania: The Path to Prosperity. Adam, C. S., Collier, P. & Ndulu, B. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 190-213

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Poverty Reduction 100%
  • Poverty 74%
  • Income Distribution 48%
  • Simulation 43%
  • Terms of Trade 34%
  31 Citations (Scopus)

• Inequality: Measurement, Trends, Impacts, and Policies

  Addison, T., Pirttilä, J. & Tarp, F., Dec 2017, In: Review of Income and Wealth. 63, 4, p. 603-607

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Inequality Measurement 100%
  • Fragility 25%
  • Economic Growth 23%
  • Poverty Reduction 22%
  66 Downloads (Pure)

• Information and Communication Technology

  Kaila, H. K., 2017, Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam : A Rising Dragon on the Move. Tarp, F. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 158-180

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Information and Communication Technology 100%
  • Technology Adoption 68%
  • Telephone 55%
  • Ownership 50%
  • World Wide Web 36%

• Introduction and Synthesis

  Arendt, D., Arndt, T. C., Miller, M., Tarp, F. & Zinaman, O., 2017, The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions. Arendt, D., Arndt, C., Miller, M., Tarp, F. & Zinaman, O. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 3-15 (WIDER Studies in Development Economics).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • twenty-first century 100%
  • climate change 47%
  • climate 43%
  • society 37%

• Learning by Exporting: The Case of Mozambican Manufacturing

  Cruz, A., Newman, C., Rand, J. & Tarp, F., 2017, In: Journal of African Economies. 26, 1, p. 93-118

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Learning by Exporting 100%
  • Manufacturing 62%
  • manufacturing 60%
  • Exporters 60%
  • learning 54%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  52 Downloads (Pure)

• Lessons Learnt and Policy Implications

  Tarp, F., 2017, Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move. Oxford University Press, p. 279-294 (UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • market 100%
  • constitutional state 87%
  • transaction 82%
  • economic growth 77%
  • low income 70%

• Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries: Motivation and Overview

  Arndt, C. & Tarp, F., 2017, Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries. Arndt, C. & Tarp, F. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 3-9

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • poverty 100%
  • developing world 83%
  • measuring 65%
  • household 40%
  • labor force 33%

• Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries

  Arndt, C. (ed.) & Tarp, F. (ed.), 2017, Oxford University Press. 384 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

  • poverty 100%
  • developing world 83%
  • measuring 65%
  • household survey 34%
  • code 32%

• Measuring quality of health-care services: What is known and where are the gaps?

  Kruk, M. E., Kelley, E., Syed, S. B., Tarp, F., Addison, T. & Akachi, Y., 2017, In: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 95, 6, p. 389-389A

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  31 Citations (Scopus)

• Measuring state fragility: a review of the theoretical groundings of existing approaches

  Ferreira, I., 3 Jun 2017, In: Third World Quarterly. 38, 6, p. 1291-1309

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • failed state 100%
  • Fragility 85%
  • Fragile States 75%
  • ranking 67%
  • development discourse 62%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Moving Forward

  Arendt, D., Arndt, C., Miller, M., Tarp, F. & Zinaman, O., 2017, The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions. Arendt, D., Arndt, C., Miller, M., Tarp, F. & Zinaman, O. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 569-576 (WIDER Studies in Development Economics).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • climate change mitigation 100%
  • emission reduction 86%
  • fossil fuel 80%
  • greenhouse gas emissions 78%
  • decision making 65%

• Multidimensional Assessment of Child Welfare for Tanzania

  Arndt, C., Leyaro, V., Mahrt, K. & Tarp, F., 2017, Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries. Oxford University Press, p. 215-241

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Child Welfare 100%
  • Tanzania 79%
  • Poverty 50%
  • Household 32%
  • Inflation 23%

• Network ties and survival: A study of small commercial poultry farms in Ghana

  Acheampong, G., Narteh, B. & Rand, J., Feb 2017, In: International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 18, 1, p. 14-24 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Poultry 100%
  • Ghana 68%
  • Farms 66%
  • Farm 58%
  • Human Capital 14%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Nobelprisen i økonomi 2015: Angus Deaton

  Hansen, H., Sept 2017, In: Samfundsoekonomen. 2, p. 35-39

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Overview and Insights

  Page, J. & Tarp, F., 2017, The Practice of Industrial Policy: Government-Business Coordination in Africa and East Asia. Page, J. & Tarp, F. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 1-20 (WIDER Studies in Development Economics).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • industrial policy 100%
  • private sector 65%
  • government policy 35%
  • public sector 31%
  • low income 30%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Sibling Gender Composition and Preferences for STEM Education

  Brenøe, A. A., 29 Jun 2017, p. 1-52.

  Research output: Working paper › Research

  • mathematics 100%
  • engineering 88%
  • gender 72%
  • education 45%
  • Compulsory schooling 22%
  149 Downloads (Pure)

• Small area estimation of child undernutrition in Ethiopian woredas

  Sohnesen, T. P., Ambel, A. A., Fisker, P. K., Andrews, C. & Khan, Q., 2017, In: PLOS ONE. 12, 4, 17 p., e0175445.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Small Area Estimation 100%
  • malnutrition 79%
  • Children 78%
  • Malnutrition 68%
  • underweight 52%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  102 Downloads (Pure)

• Special Issue of Journal of Development Studies: Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

  Addison, T. (ed.), Morrissey, O. (ed.) & Tarp, F. (ed.), 2017, 7. ed. Taylor & Francis. (Journal of Development Studies).

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

• Special Issue of Review of Development Economics: Aid, Environment and Climate Change

  Arndt, C. (ed.) & Tarp, F. (ed.), 2017, Wiley. 211 p. (Review of Development Economics).

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

• Special Issue of Review of Income and Wealth: Inequality: Measurement, Trends, Impacts, and Policies

  Addison, T. (ed.), Pirttilä, J. (ed.) & Tarp, F. (ed.), 2017, 4. ed. Wiley. 317 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research

• Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change, and Employment in Vietnam

  Abbott, P., Tarp, F. & Wu, C., 1 Jan 2017, In: European Journal of Development Research. 29, 1, p. 54-72

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Biased Technological Change 100%
  • technological change 78%
  • Structural Transformation 74%
  • Gross Domestic Product 65%
  • Technical Change 64%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Synthesis

  Arndt, C., Mahrt, K. & Tarp, F., 2017, Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries. Arndt, C. & Tarp, F. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 269-273

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • poverty 100%
  • living standard 55%
  • vulnerability 38%

• The Happy Farmer: Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being in Rural Vietnam

  Markussen, T., Fibæk, M., Tarp, F. & Tuan, N. D. A., 2017, In: Journal of Happiness Studies. 19, 6, p. 1613-36

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • self-employment 100%
  • Vietnam 79%
  • farmer 70%
  • well-being 53%
  • income 35%
  70 Downloads (Pure)

• The Macroeconomics of Aid: Overview

  Addison, T., Morrissey, O. & Tarp, F., 3 Jul 2017, In: Journal of Development Studies. 53, 7, p. 987-997

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • macroeconomics 100%
  • Macroeconomic Impacts 87%
  • Blends 76%
  • aid 74%
  • Macroeconomics 59%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  55 Downloads (Pure)

• The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions

  Arendt, D. (ed.), Arndt, C. (ed.), Miller, M. (ed.), Tarp, F. (ed.) & Zinaman, O. (ed.), 2017, Oxford University Press. 594 p. (WIDER Studies in Development Economics).

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

  • political economy 100%
  • transition 44%
  • policy 43%
  • energy 34%
  • world 24%

• The Practice of Industrial Policy: Government-Business Coordination in Africa and East Asia

  Page, J. (ed.) & Tarp, F. (ed.), 2017, Oxford University Press. 368 p. (UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics).

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

  • industrial policy 100%
  • private sector 65%
  • public sector 42%
  • job creation 33%
  • industrial development 32%

• The Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Aid and Macroeconomic Transmission Mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana

  Juselius, K., Reshid, A. A. & Tarp, F., 3 Jul 2017, In: Journal of Development Studies. 53, 7, p. 1075-1103 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • real exchange rate 100%
  • Foreign Aid 69%
  • macroeconomics 62%
  • Tanzania 58%
  • Transmission Mechanism 56%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  67 Downloads (Pure)

• The Return to Foreign Aid

  Dalgaard, C-J. L. & Hansen, H., 3 Jul 2017, In: Journal of Development Studies. 53, 7, p. 998-1018 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Foreign Aid 100%
  • Rate of Return 85%
  • aid 67%
  • Random Coefficient Models 25%
  • Gross Domestic Product 24%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  73 Downloads (Pure)

• Viet Nam: Setting the Scene

  Tarp, F., 2017, Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move. Tarp, F. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 1-25 (UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • economy 100%
  • planned economy 68%
  • political history 65%
  • reform 63%
  • foreign investment 58%

• Welfare Dynamics: 2006-14

  McKay, A. & Tarp, F., 2017, Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the Move. Tarp, F. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 205-221

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Household 100%
  • Asset Indexes 76%
  • Household Welfare 65%
  • Ethnic Minorities 64%
  • Food Consumption 56%
• 2016

  A 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Viet Nam

  Thu Hoai, D. T., van Seventer, D., Tarp, F., Ho, H. C. & Hieu, T. T., 2016, Hanoi, Viet Nam: Finance Publishing House. 55 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research

• Absolute poverty lines

  Arndt, C., Mahrt, K. & Tarp, F., 2016, Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER, 14 p. (UNU WIDER Working Paper Series; No. 8).

  Research output: Working paper › Research

  • Poverty Line 100%
  • Private Consumption 51%
  • Standard of Living 48%
  • Specificity 41%
  • Costs 16%

• Africa’s Lions: Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies

  Bhorat, H. (ed.) & Tarp, F. (ed.), Nov 2016, Brookings Institution Press. 270 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

• Agropop Policy Brief: Food Standards are good -- for middle class farmers

  Hansen, H. & Trifkovic, N., Aug 2016, 3 p.

  Research output: Other contribution › Communication

  54 Downloads (Pure)

• Aid for Gender Equality and Development: Lessons and Challenges

  Grown, C., Addison, T. & Tarp, F., 1 Apr 2016, In: Journal of International Development. 28, 3, p. 311-319

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Gender Equality 100%
  • gender 80%
  • Gender equality 77%
  • aid 75%
  • Aid Effectiveness 55%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  58 Downloads (Pure)

• Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance? Method and evidence from micro-data

  Johannesen, N., Tørsløv, T. R. & Wier, L., 2016, Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER, 22 p. (UNU WIDER Working Paper Series; No. 10).

  Research output: Working paper › Research

  • Profit Shifting 100%
  • Tax Avoidance 86%
  • Micro Data 72%
  • Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 68%
  • Multinationals 59%

• A Review of Consumption Poverty Estimation for Mozambique

  Arndt, C., Jones, E. S., Mahrt, K., Salvucci, V. & Tarp, F., 2016, Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER, 13 p. (UNU WIDER Working Paper Series; No. 35).

  Research output: Working paper › Research

• Bribes and Taxes: Spatially Concentrated or Randomly Distributed? Evidence from Three Sources of Firm Level Data in Vietnam

  Rand, J. & Tarp, F., 1 Jan 2016, Handbook on Corruption in Asia. Routledge, p. 129-143

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Can Africa Industrialize?

  Newman, C., Page, J., Rand, J., Shimeles, A., Söderbom, M. & Tarp, F., 2016, Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging Asia. Oxford University Press, p. 257-276

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Characteristics of the Vietnamese business environment: Evidence from a SME survey in 2015

  Brandt, K., Rand, J., Sharma, S., Tarp, F. & Trifkovic, N., 2016, Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER. 124 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research

• Coffee price volatility and intra-household labour supply

  Beck, U. R., Singhal, S. & Tarp, F., 2016, Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER, 27 p. (UNU WIDER Working Paper Series; No. 16).

  Research output: Working paper › Research

• Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environment

  Newman, C., Rand, J., Tarp, F. & Trifkovic, N., 2016, Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER, 24 p. (UNU WIDER Working Paper Series; No. 7).

  Research output: Working paper › Research

  • Business Environment 100%
  • Corporate Social Responsibility 96%
  • Firm Efficiency 54%
  • Corporate Value 50%
  • Stakeholder Engagement 50%

• Determinants and Trends of Socioeconomic Inequality in Child Malnutrition: The Case of Mozambique, 1996–2011

  Salvucci, V., 1 Aug 2016, In: Journal of International Development. 28, 6, p. 857-875 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Child Malnutrition 100%
  • Child malnutrition 92%
  • Socioeconomic Inequalities 89%
  • malnutrition 83%
  • Malnutrition 80%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Does Foreign Aid Harm Political Institutions?

  Jones, E. S. & Tarp, F., 1 Jan 2016, In: Journal of Development Economics. 118, p. 266- 281 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Foreign Aid 100%
  • Political Institutions 77%
  • political institution 72%
  • aid 67%
  • organization 51%
  70 Citations (Scopus)

• Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/2009

  Arndt, C., Hussain, M. A., Salvucci, V. & ∅sterdal, L. P., 1 Sept 2016, In: Economics and Human Biology. 22, p. 1-13 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Child Malnutrition 100%
  • Food Prices 68%
  • Mozambique 38%
  • Inflation Rate 29%
  • Child nutrition 23%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Entrepreneurship versus joblessness: Explaining the rise in self-employment

  Falco, P. & Haywood, L., 1 Jan 2016, In: Journal of Development Economics. 118, p. 245-265 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • self employment 100%
  • self-employment 71%
  • Entrepreneurship 69%
  • Self-employment 60%
  • entrepreneurship 55%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

• Essays in Development Economics: Inequality Measurement and Household Factor Allocations

  Beck, U. R., Jul 2016, Copenhagen: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. 156 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis

• Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?

  Brenøe, A. A. & Lundberg, S., Oct 2016, p. 1-44, (IZA Discussion Paper; No. 10313).

  Research output: Working paper › Research

• Gender matters: Private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs

  Trifkovic, N., Bjerge, B. A. & Torm, N., 2016, 149 ed., Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.

  Research output: Working paper › Research

  • Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) 100%
  • Private Sector 49%
  • On-the-job Training 33%
  • Gender Wage Gap 32%
  • Wages 26%

• Ghana: Poverty Reduction over Thirty Years

  McKay, A., Pirttilä, J. & Tarp, F., 2016, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Arndt, C., McKay, A. & Tarp, F. (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 69-88

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review