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Public revenue mobilization for inclusive development and Turning the tide on inequality in South AfricaWe are seeking qualified proposals to advance economic research, capacity-building, and policy dialogue in South Africa and the southern Africa region. Submission deadline 30 November 2018 23:59 UTC+2.
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‘Industrial’ policy in the 21st century
During the past week, I participated in two international conferences. The first was the WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki: Think development - Think WIDER ...
Industrialization structural change Employment and IndustryWorking Paper
Ethnicity and risk sharing network formation: Evidence from rural Viet NamEthnic inequality remains a persistent challenge for Viet Nam. This paper aims at better understanding this ethnic gap through exploring the formation of risk sharing networks in rural areas...
Risk-sharing network Homophily Ethnic inequalityBlog
Development policy in an era of robots: Views from the experts
Labour-saving technology in the form of robotic systems, artificial intelligence, and advanced computer networks may cause a rapid decline in global employment...
WIDER Development Conference Development Economics Economic policyConference
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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Tax havens - What is the nature of the beast?
International development organizations largely agree that illicit capital flight from developing countries is an obstacle for development. And transparency is commonly seen as the best way to tackle the issue. But is it enough?...
corporate income tax Taxation Law and legislation (Taxation)Working Paper
Asian development after the Asian DramaInspired by Gunnar Myrdal’s core concepts discussed in his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations , published in 1968, this paper analyses the opening-up experiences of three Asian countries (China, India, and Malaysi...
Economic openness Operational controls Strategic integrationBlog
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)News
UNU-WIDER welcomes new board membersUNU-WIDER is pleased to announce that Professors Ann E. Harrison , Justin Yifu Lin , and Benno Ndulu will join the WIDER Board in January 2019. All three new board members are prominent development economists who have worked closely with UNU-WIDER...
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UNU-WIDER congratulates the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics on its inaugurationThe Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (GSE) was inaugurated on 24 October at an opening ceremony that took place at the University of Helsinki. The goal of the new school is to strengthen and broaden the field of economic research in Finland. As...
research Think tanksWorking Paper
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
Annual 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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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 policyProject
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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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 rightsBook
Industries without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa ReconsideredThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
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 DevelopmentThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Gender Equality DiscriminationBlog
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 YouthProject
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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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
The 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 Series