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Sustainable cities and structural transformation in Africa in the twenty-first century

On Thursday, 9 November, UNU-WIDER the ACRC welcome Dr. Arkebe Oqubay, former Senior Minister and Special Adviser to Ethiopia's Prime Minister and former mayor of Addis Ababa, to present this lecture at at Helsinki City Hall.
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Report: Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality

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

NEW BOOK - Available now on Open Access. Providing a nuanced view of informality across a range of developing economies using a common conceptual framework.
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    Vacancies
    Research Associate (PSA) - Tax and Conflict

    UNU-WIDER is hiring a Research Associate based in Helsinki, Finland. As Research Associate you would contribute to the implementation of the ‘Tax and Conflict’ project as part of our Domestic Revenue Mobilization Programme (DRM II UNU WIDER...

    Closing date: 8 December 2023
    UNU Careers
    Lecture
    Josue Isai Ramos Figueroa Sustainable cities and structural transformation in Africa in the twenty-first century
    9 November 2023 16:00 – 9 November 2023 17:30
    Event Square at Helsinki City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13, Sofiankatu 1, Helsinki, Finland
    Open for registration
    Vacancies
    Research Fellow (P-4) Climate Change

    UNU-WIDER is hiring a Research Fellow based in Helsinki, Finland. As Research Fellow you would establish, develop, and lead a research programme and associated projects, which links climate change, just transition and distributional outcomes in...

    Closing date: 5 December 2023
    UNU Careers
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    Research Associate (PSA)

    UNU-WIDER is hiring a Research Associate based in Helsinki, Finland. As Research Associate you would contribute to the research and management of our Domestic Revenue Mobilization Programme (DRM II UNU WIDER : Domestic Revenue Mobilization programme)...

    Closing date: 15 November 2023
    UNU Careers
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    Decent work and economic growth: Achieving SDG 8

    UNU-WIDER is excited to launch a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Decent work and economic growth: achieving SDG 8. This 6-week course provides an in-depth look at new UNU-WIDER research on structural transformation, the developer's dilemma, and transforming informal work and livelihoods, including findings on the effects of COVID-19.

    Blog
    Will growth be enough to end poverty? : New Projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
    by Arief Anshory Yusuf, Zuzy Anna, Ahmad Komarulzaman, Andy Sumner October 2023

    Today, October 17th is the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (you already knew that, right?). In new analysis for UNU-WIDER, we...

    • SDGs
    • Poverty analysis
    • Economic development
    Vacancies
    Associate Communications Officer (P-2)

    UNU-WIDER is hiring an Associate Communications Officer in Helsinki, Finland. As Associate Communications Officer you would be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of the Institute’s Knowledge Mobilization Strategy and...

    Closing date: 29 November 2023
    UNU Careers
    Blog
    Forging economic progress through a secure data facility lab in South Africa
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    by Aimable Nsabimana September 2023

    Data is the key to informed decision-making in today's rapidly changing world. As nations strive to address complex economic challenges, data-driven...

    • Economics
    • Data
    • Taxation
    Request for research proposals
    Enterprise development for job creation, public revenue mobilization structural transformation and inequality

    UNU-WIDER, together with the National Treasury of South Africa (NT), is requesting research proposals under the second phase of the SA-TIED programme. This call invites South Africa-based and international researchers to submit proposals to conduct...

    Closing date: 7 November 2023
    See full request for research proposals
    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
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    UNU Statement on the Israel–Gaza Crisis

    The United Nations University echoes calls for international humanitarian law and human rights law to be respected and upheld.

    Working Paper
    Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty?

    In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and...

    • Poverty
    • Growth
    • Nutrition
    Book
    Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades

    It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with sub-Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under...

    • Economic transformation
    • Income distribution
    • Economic growth
    Report
    Synthesis report: Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality
    Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality
    • Peacebuilding
    • Peace
    • Inequalities
    Journal Article
    Are the effects of terrorism short-lived?

    ARTICLE ON EARLY VIEW | Terrorism elicits strong public reactions immediately after the attack, with important implications for democratic institutions and individual well-being. Are these effects short-lived? We answer this question using a natural...

    • Terrorism
    • Risk
    • Risk attitudes
    Working Paper
    Aid and violence reduction

    Although the provision of security to all their citizens is a state’s fundamental duty, over 50 countries experienced armed conflict in 2021. The international development community has identified armed conflict as an impediment to development and...

    • Aid
    • Violence
    • Conflict
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    Stuck at the bottom of the job ladder in Africa: The stumbling block to resilient growth and prosperity
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    by Michael Danquah August 2023

    When the question of creating good jobs and decent work in Africa arises, policymakers and development partners often focus on formalization. For...

    • SDG8
    • job ladder
    • Job mobility
    Policy Brief
    WIDER Annual Lecture Brief | Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality
    • Annual lecture
    • Globalization
    • Trade
    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
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    Varieties of Structural Transformation
    • Structural transformation
    • Economic growth
    • Inequality
    Journal Article
    Acting like a state

    This article examines the complex local dynamics of armed violence in post-war Abkhazia. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the Abkhaz participants and non-participants in this violence and a range of secondary materials, it adapts the conceptual...

    • Violence
    • Political violence
    • Abkhazia
    Policy Brief
    How to support the emergence of effective tax systems

    There has been a revival of interest in the state’s role in economic development. Recent research argues that the most successful economies are those where effective states provide crucial public goods and services. The historical emergence of...

    • State capacity
    • Economic development
    • Taxation
    Working Paper
    Youth, violence, and sustaining peace

    Violent conflicts affect the lives and livelihoods of almost one quarter of the world’s population. But the effects of violent conflict are not uniform. This study assesses the differential effects of violent conflict on young people’s education, job...

    • Youth
    • Violent conflict
    • Peace
    Blog
    Oslo conference turns the spotlight on sustainable development financing
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    by Denise Wall September 2023

    With the deadline for achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals just seven years away, there is an increasing sense of urgency over the...

    • Domestic revenue mobilization
    • SDG17
    • SDG16
    Working Paper
    The legacy of Mexico’s Drug War on youth political attitudes

    We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico, where an entire generation of youths has been raised amid the country’s most violent conflict over the past century. We fielded an...

    • Crime
    • Political reservations
    • Mexico
    Blog
    Why the Aid Effectiveness Principles are important for development
    by Rachel M. Gisselquist, Patricia Justino, Andrea Vaccaro July 2023

    Demonstrating empirically the Aid Effectiveness Principles' global impact on development is a challenge. But according to Rachel M. Gisselquist...

    • Aid effectiveness
    • Development policy
    • Humanitarian assistance
    Blog
    Will a revenue boom support development in resource-rich economies?
    by Antonio Savoia, Tania Masi, Roberto Ricciuti, Kunal Sen August 2023

    The post-COVID-19 economic recovery and Russia’s war with Ukraine have caused some natural resource prices to reach new highs. Although forecasting...

    • Natural resources
    • Resource curse
    • Fiscal capacity
    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.

    Get started with the UNU WIDER website...
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