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April 1, 2009
IDS: Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) undertook a set of rapid research projects concerning the global financial crisis and its consequences on developing countries.
In-Focus issue 7 features the conclusions on those projects as 2-page policy briefs available for download.

Topics:
- The Global Financial Crisis, Developing Countries and Policy Responses by Neil McCulloch, Anna Schmidt and Andy Summer
- What are the Likely Poverty Impacts of the Current Crises? by Andy Sumner and Sarah Wolcott
- Voices of the Poor in the Current Crises by Naomi Hossain
- Social Protection Responses to the Financial Crisis: What do we Know? by Mark Davies and Allister McGregor
- Macroeconomic Policy, Stimuli, Aid, and Budgeting: What Options? by Ricardo Gottschalk
- China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for Low-income Countries by Sarah Cook and Jing Gu
- The Impact on Developing Countries of an OECD Recession by Sherman Robinson and Dirk Willenbockel
- Trade Credit by John Humphrey
- From Crisis Management to Institutional Reform by Anna Schmidt
- Will the Global Financial Crisis Change the Development Paradigm? by Neil McCulloch, Anna Schmidt and Andy Sumner

Details and download: http://www.ids.ac.uk