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Poverty and Inequality – twins or just siblings?
Sitting in the large conference room where we are being invited to ‘Think WIDER’ at the WIDER Development Conference this September...
Poverty and inequality Poverty InequalityJournal Article
Poverty dynamics and graduation from conditional cash transfers: A transition model for Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programThe effects of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. However, there is limited knowledge on how a CCT should respond to the dynamics of poverty...
Panel analysis Poverty Measurement (Poverty)Working Paper
Revisiting the methodology of Myrdal in Asian Drama 50 years onThis paper reviews the main methodological innovations in Asian Drama ...
Gunnar Myrdal InstitutionsWorking Paper
Multidimensional poverty of children in MozambiqueWe analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be considered multidimensionally poor...
Multidimensional poverty Children Child wellbeingConference
Think development – Think WIDERFor more than 30 years, UNU-WIDER has been associated with some of the most advanced thinking in development economics. Since the Institute’s start in 1985, UNU-WIDER has undertaken research on all the principal themes of development economics. It...
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Earnings polarization, ethnicity, and regional perspective in IndonesiaRecently, quantitative methods have been increasingly used in ethnicity research, which traditionally has relied mainly on qualitative methods...
Ethnicity Earnings inequality Regional characteristicsResearch Brief
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Baseline survey on Mozambican university graduates’ school-to-work transitions – looking forward to the launch
Baseline Survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique will be launched on 4 September...
Higher education Mozambique labour marketsResearch Brief
Potential benefits and pitfalls of extractives in Mozambique: Lessons from international experienceMozambique has seen a significant expansion of interest and investment in its extractive industries...
Extractive industries Resource curse Policy coordinationWorking Paper
Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus threeSix Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand) defied Gunnar Myrdal’s pessimistic prognosis in his 1968 volume, Asian Drama, regarding their prospects for devel...
Agricultural productivity Investments, Foreign Industrial policyNews
UNU-WIDER shortlisted for the Prospect Think Tank Awards 2018UNU-WIDER has been shortlisted for the Prospect Magazine’s Think Tank Awards 2018 . The Institute is ranked in the category of international economic & financial think tanks based on the research on industrial policy, including the project...
Think tanks Industrial policyWorking Paper
China’s growth miracle in the context of Asian transformationMyrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he was about other Asian countries in his book...
Transitional economies Economic growth PovertyJournal Special Issue
Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityThe articles in the forthcoming special issue are already available online on full open access. The special issue will be officially published in March 2019, vol. 55, issue 3...
Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rightsAnnual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 22 - The political economy of structural transformation - has democracy failed African economies?The 2018 WIDER Annual Lecture which will be given by Professor Ernest Aryeetey. He will discuss the political economy of structural transformation in Africa. The lecture looks at how various political regimes and economic policies have shaped the...
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Industries without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa ReconsideredEarly view: When published this book will become Open Access. By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa...
industry Growth InvestmentJournal Article
A human rights-consistent approach to multidimensional welfare measurement applied to sub-Saharan AfricaThe rights-based approach to development targets progress towards the realization of 30 articles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In current practice, progress is frequently measured using the multidimensional poverty index...
first-order dominance Sub-Saharan Africa demographic and health surveyBlog
Mozambique: Improving our understanding of the potential of manufacturing
Mozambique’s manufacturing industry is facing many challenges. Nevertheless, we should not underestimate its linkages to the rest of the economy and its potential in terms of job creation and structural transformation...
Manufacturing firms Manufacturing Manufacturing industriesBook
Towards Gender Equity in DevelopmentEarly view: When published this book will become Open Access. As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination, women in the developing world often lack autonomy...
Gender Equality DiscriminationProject
Southern Africa – Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED)SA-TIED programme looks at ways to support policy-making for inclusive growth and economic transformation in the southern Africa region, through original research conceived and produced in collaboration between United Nations University World...
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Lessons from the resettlement of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Vietnamese forced migrants in Germany
Hiếu (pseudonym) embodies the ‘good refugee’ story. In 1979, he fled Vietnam by boat and eventually resettled in the Federal Republic of (West) Germany, as did many others ...
Integration International migration RefugeesBlog
Young Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the UK: Does more education mean better futures?
Education is my freedom ... if I have my education, everything is still possible for me in the future. Mohammed grinned, and looked down at his newly acquired university student card...
Migration Refugees YouthBlog
Successfully integrating refugee populations: What can we learn from the experience of Vietnamese Americans?
Policy makers should see integration and upward mobility, and not simply placement and survival, as goals of resettlement of refugees...
Migration Refugees IntegrationBlog
Obstacles for Mozambique’s manufacturing firms amplified by macroeconomic disturbances
Mozambique has been facing macroeconomic difficulties since 2015. This has amplified the obstacles for micro, small and medium-sized manufacturing firms, but the actual problems lie deeper ...
Manufacturing firms Structural transformation Macroeconomic policyPolicy Brief
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Request for research proposals
Regional growth and development for southern Africa’s prosperityUNU-WIDER, the National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa (NT), and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) invite proposals from qualified researchers for high quality economic and/or political economy analysis in any of the five focus...
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UNU-WIDER congratulates Professor Njuguna Ndung’u on his new appointmentProfessor Njuguna Ndung’u has been appointed as the next African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Executive Director effective September 1, 2018. Over the years Professor Ndung’u has held a number of top positions in the field of...
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WIID - World Income Inequality DatabaseWorld Income Inequality Database (WIID), collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. WIID provides the most comprehensive set of income inequality statistics available and can be...
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How polarized is the global income distribution?The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution...
Polarization Bipolarization Polarization measuresThe WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. At the weekly sessions, early-career and senior researchers present recent and ongoing work touching on structural transformation, inclusion, and...
WIDER Seminar SeriesJournal Article
The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from TanzaniaDo intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)?...
fiscal capacity intergovernmental grants Sub-Saharan Africa