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Executive Associate (GS-6)UNU-WIDER is hiring an Executive Associate in Helsinki, Finland. As Executive Associate you would provide critical support to our Director and Deputy Director in effectively managing the Institute.
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Women’s Work: Routes to social and economic empowermentFORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE/COLLECTION IN WORLD DEVELOPMENT (journal), INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES ON OPEN ACCESS | In recent decades, trends in female labour force participation rates have been very heterogeneous across developing countries, despite widesprea...
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Unravelling the puzzle of peace: Short videos on key issues in peace and conflict researchA 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,...
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The loser’s long curse: electoral consequences of a class conflictThis paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years...
Civil conflict Class ElectionsWorking Paper
Don’t rock the boat? Fears of conflict and support for protest in Iraq and beyondWhy do people support—or refrain from supporting—nonviolent protests for political change?...
protest Nonviolene ConflictWorking Paper
States of disorder: An ecosystems approach to state-building in conflict-affected countriesWhy is the recent track record of state-building so poor?...
Statebuilding Peacebuilding GovernanceWorking Paper
Trust the hand that protects you—Does UN peacekeeping harm post-conflict governments’ legitimacy?Rebuilding state legitimacy is a thorny challenge in the aftermath of civil wars. The international community has stepped in to support post-conflict states in rebuilding state capacity, sometimes replacing governments in providing public goods...
State legitimacy Post-conflict TrustSeminar
Marinella Leone on What drives parental investments in early childhood
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Marine mining and its potential implications for low- and middle-income countriesAfter 50 years of optimistic predictions that marine mining will soon take off, it still remains to be seen if and when this will happen...
Marine resources Mining Fiscal regimeWorking Paper
The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in BrazilThis paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market...
Education Wages AgricultureBlog
Climate resilience and sustainable sovereign debt
2022 is already a record-breaker in the number of climate change-related events , and developing countries must now pay for the repairs and remediation needed to combat the consequences...
Debt sustainability Fiscal sustainability SustainabilityNews
UNU-WIDER launches new series: Cambridge Elements in Development EconomicsUNU-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.
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Not too long and not too short: Introducing the new UNU-WIDER and Cambridge University Press series in Development EconomicsSimon Kuznets’ pipe dream was to have economic inequality data that rarely existed when he was writing. What are the pipe dreams of today’s development economists?...
Social mobility COVID-19 Academic excellenceBook
The 1918–20 influenza pandemic: A retrospective in the time of COVID-19The pandemic of 1918–20 — commonly known as the Spanish flu — infected over a quarter of the world's population and killed over fifty million people...
Pandemic COVID-19 socioeconomic consequencesBlog
Global tax reforms, net-zero, and domestic revenue: Food for thought from the DRM programme
Domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) and taxation have gained prominence lately on the global agenda, most recently with the resolution for the United Nations (UN) to lead the global discourse on tax rules ...
Domestic revenue mobilization Net Zero Illicit financial flowsWorking Paper
The link between public debt and public investment in TanzaniaIn a bid to realize its development aspirations, Tanzania has made concerted efforts to increase public investment, particularly in the last decade...
Public investments Tanzania Public debtBlog
Teamwork and capacity strengthening to promote development: The case of MozambiqueDesigning and implementing public policies requires caution to guarantee the best use of scarce resources, especially in middle- and lower-income countries...
Social protection Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policyWorking Paper
Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban MozambiqueIn this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles...
Gender gap Employment DecompositionWorking Paper
Global profit shifting, 1975–2019This paper constructs time series of global profit shifting covering the 2015–19 period, during which major international efforts were implemented to curb profit shifting...
Profit shifting Multinational firms TaxationBlog
Inequality, fiscal space, and crisis response — A matter of priority, affordability, or both?
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments financed more than 5000 fiscal support policies worldwide in 2020–21...
Fiscal policy Fiscal capacity InequalityNews
Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino appointed as Deputy Director of UNU-WIDERThe United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) appoints Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino as Deputy Director on 1 August 2022.
Conflict Trust Governance
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Urban poverty: cities, slums, and the need for policy actionDeveloping countries will be predominantly urban by 2030...
Social mobility India UrbanizationWorking Paper
Trust as state capacity: The political economy of complianceThis paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific channel whereby citizens who are convinced that a policy is worthwhile are more motivated to comply with it...
State capacity Trust ComplianceWorking Paper
Elite incomes around the world: Command over tradables, non-tradables, and peopleThis paper analyses elite incomes around the world, and how international comparisons of elite incomes vary depending on the exchange rate and income concept used...
Elites Income inequality Exchange rateBlog
Fintech and domestic savings: A perfect match coming true in sub-Saharan Africa
Financial technology (FinTech) is a major force disrupting the structure of financial services in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and enabling access of unbanked people to financial services...
Technological innovations Domestic savings Technology