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How are rural households in Viet Nam doing?
Viet Nam has seen major economic shifts which started in the 1980s and continue today. Many strides have been made as the country goes through structural transformation, not least a significant reduction in poverty...
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Rural households in Viet NamDeadline for proposal submissions is 12 June 2017 23:59 EEST.
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Public economics for developmentDespite successes in poverty reduction and improvements in health and educational outcomes in many low-income countries, development challenges remain extensive. They cannot be addressed effectively without a well-functioning public sector. This...
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Microsimulation models for developing countries: An interview with Jukka Pirttilä
The University of Tampere is participating in an international project in which a microsimulation model is being drafted for the evaluation of the price effects of taxation and the transfer of income in developing countries...
Tax microsimulation Public financeWorking Paper
The taxation of extractive industries: MiningThe taxation of the mining industry varies considerably from nation to nation. This paper reflects on the evolving use of various taxation approaches applied by governments to the mining sector...
Mining Mining taxation RoyaltiesBlog
Estimating tax avoidance: New findings, new questions
There are now a range of estimates of the global scale of tax avoidance. These include: the $600 billion annual tax loss estimated by IMF researchers Crivelli et al...
tax avoidance Tax Multinational firmsWorking Paper
The missing middle: Growing and strengthening Viet Nam’s micro, small, and medium-sized enterprisesWe study the exporting and subcontracting decisions, mark-ups, market concentration, and growth of a panel of Vietnamese private micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Our main findings are as follows...
Viet Nam Exporting SubcontractingWorking Paper
Global distribution of revenue loss from tax avoidance: Re-estimation and country resultsInternational corporate tax is an important source of government revenue, especially in lower-income countries...
corporate income tax International taxation tax avoidanceNews
Finland’s Minister for Foreign Trade and Development visits UNU-WIDERDirector Finn Tarp today welcomed Finland’s Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkänen to the UNU-WIDER offices in Helsinki. Part of ongoing collaboration with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, it was the Minister’s...
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Evidence based policy making in Myanmar – New four-year programme in collaboration with the Central Statistical Organization launchedDirector-General of the Central Statistical Organization Dr Wah Wah Maung, Ambassador of Denmark to Myanmar H.E. Peter Lysholt Hansen, and UNU-WIDER Director Finn Tarp at the project launch event on 17 March 2017. UNU-WIDER and the Central...
Myanmar SMEsProject
Inclusive growth in Mozambique - scaling-up research and capacityThe central goal of the project is to support inclusive growth, growth that substantially improves the living standards of the Mozambican population. This will be pursued through a focused research and capacity-building effort, meant to increase...
Mozambique Employment generation Industrial policy
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Tackling gender inequality from all directions Improving the position of women continues to be an important concern in development...
Gender equality Development aid InterventionsCall for papers
WIDER Development Conference jointly organized with ARUA - Migration and mobilityThe deadline for submissions is closed.
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A two-way street: Regional integration in southern Africa through supermarkets Walk into any supermarket and you will find a mix of products to stock the kitchen. It’s easy to assume that many of the goods on offer are sourced locally and from nearby countries...
Regional growth Africa SupermarketsResearch Brief
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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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Leading economists agree: closing borders is not the answer to inequality
Building a great big wall will not close the gap. Jorge Duenes/Reuters US President Donald Trump wants to build a wall along the US-Mexican border. Britain wants to retreat into its shell to become an isolated island state ...
Inequality immigration RefugeesBlog
How big supermarket chains in southern Africa keep out small suppliers
A shopper prepares to pay at an informal shop in Soweto, South Africa. Smaller retailers are struggling to grow. Supermarkets are a key route to market for many suppliers of food and household consumable products...
Supermarkets Growth Economic developmentBlog
A brief history of the role of energy in the global economy: The last 25 years
Ever since the British Industrial Revolution, energy has been a key factor of production. Recent history has proved no exception. The pattern of primary commercial energy consumption since 1965 is presented in Figure 1...
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Industrial clusters: The case for Special Economic Zones in AfricaFirms tend to cluster in close geographic proximity to each other to benefit from reduced transport costs, shared inputs, and productivity spillovers due to learning and technology transfers...
Agglomeration Special Economic Zones Spatial industrial policyPolicy Brief
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Economic impacts of developing a biofuel industry in MozambiqueMozambique is one of the most promising African countries for producing biofuels and the national biofuel policy of 2009 identifies measures to incentivize biofuel production...
Biofuel Computable general equilibrium Food securityBlog
Made in Africa – the future of production on the continentThe international community has a new set of development goals. They reflect Africa’s aspirations much more closely than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) they replaced...
Production Manufacturing Industrial developmentWorking Paper
Tax revenues in transition countries: Structural changes and their policy implicationsChanges in the tax structure and category of taxes clearly matter when it comes to initiating tax policies. This paper employs data from a sample of 33 transitional countries over the period 1991–2014...
Tax revenue Economic growth Transitional economiesProject
Extractives for development (E4D)Natural resource wealth has often turned out to be a ‘curse’ rather than a ‘blessing’ for developing countries. Growth based exclusively on natural resources—such as oil, gas, and minerals—is often of a very...
Wealth Natural resources Management
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Towards gender equity in development
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New data on income inequality – WIID3.4 releasedThe UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database ― widely known by its acronym WIID ― collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. WIID provides the most comprehensive set of income...