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The Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

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    Blog
    91% of sub-Saharan African workers don’t save for old age: Why that’s a problem and how to fix it
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    by Owen Nyang'oro May 2023

    Less than 10% of the workers in sub-Saharan Africa save for old age, the lowest rate for any region in the world. That implies most of the...

    • Domestic revenue mobilization
    Blog
    Partnerships with Global South governments improve development policy and support achieving the Global Goals
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    by Timothy Shipp May 2023

    In Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, and elsewhere, UNU-WIDER is on the ground to support national development plans, collect and create...

    • Partnerships for Development
    • Tax administration data
    • Microsimulation modelling
    Working Paper
    Affirmative action around the world: insights from a new dataset

    Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach for addressing group-based inequalities along ethnic, religious, and racial lines (e.g. horizontal inequalities). It is adopted...

    • Affirmative action
    • Horizontal inequality
    • Ethnic group
    Research Brief
    Perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique
    • Inequality
    • Distributional preferences
    • Axioms
    News
    The first-ever bundle of microsimulation models for the Global South released

    The SOUTHMOD bundle compiles tax-benefit microsimulation models for 12 developing countries into a single platform, drawing inspiration from the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union, EUROMOD. UNU-WIDER’s SOUTHMOD project aims to...

    • SOUTHMOD
    • Tax-benefit microsimulation
    • SDG17
    TAZMOD model retreat 2022
    Conference
    Revving up revenue for development – the role of domestic resource mobilization

    The WIDER Development Conference on the role of domestic revenue mobilization in development takes place in Oslo, Norway, September 6–8, 2023.

    6 September 2023 08:30 – 8 September 2023 17:30
    Oslo, Norway
    Blog
    Working together on the puzzle of peace: The role of partnerships
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    by Patricia Justino May 2023

    When the theme for the first WIDER Development Conference of 2022—peace, security, and conflict—was chosen some years ago, no one could have predicted...

    • Partnerships for Development
    • Peacebuilding
    • SDG17
    Blog
    The Great Gatsby Curve and the Global South: Time for a more ambitious redistribution and reparations agenda
    by Diding Sakri, Andy Sumner, Arief Anshory Yusuf April 2023

    The famous 1920s book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the classic analogy for the American dream of meritocracy —that any person can...

    • Social mobility
    • Inequality of opportunities
    • Inequality
    News
    UNU-WIDER 2022 Annual Report is released
    In the media
    UNU-WIDER research on global profit shifting gains media attention

    The Working Paper Global profit shifting, 1975–2019 revealing a remarkable increase in profit shifting during the last five decades. The study has been highlighted by several media outlets.

    Journal Article
    The gendered crisis

    THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This article studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. First, the study finds that men’s employment...

    • COVID-19
    • Informal sector
    • Employment
    Blog
    Partnering for development
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    by Dominik Etienne May 2023

    At UNU-WIDER, all our work is implemented through partnerships, collaboration, and co-creation. Through those connections, we make a meaningful...

    • Partnerships for Development
    • SDG17
    Blog
    The richer your neighbours, the more you borrow – the case of South Africa
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    by Shakeba Foster April 2023

    Research on how income inequality affects borrowing behaviour reignited after the 2008 global recession. One prevailing theory is that rising income...

    • Inequalities
    • Inequality
    • Debt
    Policy Brief
    Climbing the job ladder

    Most workers in developing countries work in the informal labour market Lower-tier informal work leads to a dead end in the countries in this study, with little opportunity to move up the job ladder While those in upper-tier informal work are the...

    • Informal work
    • Work status
    • Global south
    Working Paper
    Welfare losses, preferences for redistribution, and political participation

    This paper studies the effect of austerity on forms of political participation—including voting, appealing for reform, and peaceful protesting—and the role of preferences for redistribution in shaping the relationship between individual exposure to...

    • Austerity
    • Political participation
    • Redistribution
    Working Paper
    Armed group opportunism in the face of recent crises

    Terrorist and other types of armed groups often exploit natural and human-made disasters and emergencies to advance their causes. This paper studies how some armed groups have responded to two recent global emergencies—climate change and the COVID-19...

    • Armed conflict
    • Decision making
    • COVID-19
    Blog
    Four global problems that will be aggravated by the UK’s recent cuts to international aid
    by Patricia Justino, Kit Rickard April 2023

    UK economic forecasts have improved markedly since the September 2022 mini-budget. The economic recession may now be more shallow and public borrowing...

    • Conflict
    • Refugees
    • Inequality
    Blog
    The developing world is facing a new debt crisis: What can we do about it?
    by Iikka Korhonen, Kunal Sen March 2023

    The recently concluded COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh had one important outcome for developing countries: the announcement of a loss and damage fund. This...

    • Developing countries (Debt relief)
    • Debt crisis
    • Climate change
    Video
    Unravelling the puzzle of peace: Short videos on key issues in peace and conflict research

    A new series of nine short videos produced by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) has just been released. The Puzzle of peace video series features leading economists, political scientists...

    Book
    Great Gatsby and the Global South
    • Global south
    • Mobility
    • Inequality
    Research Brief
    New estimates on the share of tax evasion in Zambia
    • Tax gap
    • Value-added tax
    • Bottom-up approach
    Working Paper
    Sanction-busting through tax havens

    Financial sanctions, which aim to economically hurt a target by restricting its access to financial assets and markets, require the ability to identify who owns an asset. Although experts have long claimed that offshore financial centres that offer...

    • Sanctions
    • Financial assets
    • Tax havens
    Working Paper
    Fiscal dependence on extractive revenues

    The aims of this paper are twofold. It firstly identifies and discusses the extent to which public revenues from natural resources are adequately captured in existing cross-country revenue databases, before exploring the extent to which such data can...

    • Extractives
    • Government revenue
    • Taxation
    News
    UNU-WIDER launches new series: Cambridge Elements in Development Economics

    UNU-WIDER is excited to publish the first titles in a new series of peer-reviewed, original, authoritative, and succinct publications combining the best features of books and journals, made especially for digital access.

    Journal Article
    Educational expansion and shifting private returns to education

    THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | We examine how returns to education have evolved in the context of post-conflict reconstruction and economic growth in Mozambique over the period 1996–2015. We show that private rates of return to education have...

    • Returns to education
    • Workforce
    • Employment
    Working Paper
    The institutions and policies of aid-recipient countries and aid effectiveness

    The aid effectiveness principles have limits if the recipient is fragile. The problem of relevance exists if the recipient has an authoritarian or totalitarian regime. In situations of weak statehood and fragility, a large portion of aid would likely...

    • Aid effectiveness
    • State fragility
    • Regime type
    Blog
    Is there a silver lining to COVID-19? The effects of government responses on financial inclusion
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    by Gindo Tampubolon February 2023

    The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is still being assessed. Meanwhile, new variants continue to threaten as the reservoir of infected people remains...

    Journal Article
    Improving parenting practices for early child development

    THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This study investigates the short- and medium-term impact of a randomized group-based early child development program targeting parents of children aged 6–24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. This low...

    • Child education
    • Child development
    • Parenting programme
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