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Conference: Better Jobs for DevelopmentThe 3rd Jobs and Development conference will be held in Warsaw on 21-22 May 2020. Deadline for submissions is 20 January 2020.
Seminar
Erwin Bulte on participatory resource management, elite capture and local livelihoodsAbstract - Participatory resource management, elite capture and local livelihoods: experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia Evidence on the effectiveness of participatory development approaches in low-income countries is mixed. We use an experiment...
Annual Lecture
Conference
Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries – Towards LDC-VThe United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) is organizing an academic Conference in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the...
Book
Mining for Change: Natural Resources and Industry in AfricaThis book is not yet published, expected in January 2020. When published this book will be available open access...
Mining Industrial policy Extractive industriesCall for posters
WIDER Development Conference: Global Partnerships for Sustainable DevelopmentThe deadline for submissions is 15 January 2020 23:59 UTC+2.
Book
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in VietnamThis book is not yet published, expected in January 2020. When published this book will be available open access...
SMEs Microeconomics Private sectorJournal Article
Improving Financial Inclusion through the Delivery of Cash Transfer Programmes: The Case of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera ProgrammeThis paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme...
Cash transfers Financial inclusionAnnual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 23 - Informality: addressing the Achilles heel of social protection in Latin AmericaThe 2019 WIDER Annual Lecture by Santiago Levy is to be held on Wednesday 30 October 2019 at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. The event is organized in collaboration with the Graduate Institute’s Centre for...
Seminar
Mariapia Mendola on agricultural transformation and farmers' expectationsAbstract - Agricultural transformation and farmers' expectations: randomized experimental evidence from Uganda (with Jacopo Bonan and Harounan Kazianga) Adoption rate of profitable agricultural technologies in Africa is still low and knowledge...
Blog
Reflections on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
The award of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University, has led to a flurry of blogs and op-ed pieces ...
Nobel Prize Development Economics Structural transformationResearch Brief
Revenue losses from tax-motivated mispricing in South AfricaNew research provides the first direct evidence of tax-motivated transfer mispricing in a developing country...
Tax International taxation Profit shiftingBlog
Randomized control trials – why they deserve the Nobel and what should happen next
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach — randomized control trials (RCTs) — to alleviating global poverty...
Development Economics Nobel PrizeLearning
Industrial Policy in the 21st Century – the Challenge for AfricaIn September 2019, UNU-WIDER is launching its inaugural Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Industrial Policy in the 21st Century – the Challenge for Africa . This course is based on a decade of research by UNU-WIDER, in partnership with the...
Learning Industrialization Africa's Economic Development
Call for papers
Conference: Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries – Towards LDC-VThe deadline for submissions is 18 December 2019.
News
Editor’s Choice Articles celebrating the EER 50th Anniversary includes UNU-WIDER researchThis year marks the 50th Anniversary of the European Economics Review (EER), making it one of the oldest general-interest economics journals in Europe. As part of the celebrations, the journal has announced two Editor’s Choice Articles and a...
Report
SOUTHMOD country report Uganda - UGAMOD v1.1This report documents UGAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Uganda. This work was carried out by Uganda Revenue Authority ( URA ) and Makerere University in collaboration with the project partners...
SOUTHMOD UGAMOD TaxThe 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 related to UNU-WIDER’s current work programme. In...
WIDER Seminar Series
Policy Brief
Aid effectiveness: Growth and beyondThe questions of whether aid has impact and is effective have been the subject of considerable attention...
Aid effectiveness aid and growth Development aidWorking Paper
The corruption–growth relationship: Do political institutions matter?Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth...
Corruption Democracy Economic growthConference
Transforming economies - for better jobs
Policy Brief
Social protection, government revenue and microsimulation in developing countriesSocial protection has attracted increasing interest in developing countries in recent decades and policies have been initiated in all developing regions...
SOUTHMOD Microsimulation modelling Tax-benefit microsimulationBlog
Industrial policy in the 21st century: The challenge for Africa
Why is there so little industry in Africa? Does it matter? What can be done about it?...
Policy Brief
Can legal empowerment help to address ethnic exclusion?‘Legal empowerment’ is defined as a process of systemic change through which the poor and excluded become able to use the law to protect and advance their rights and interests as citizens and economic actors...
Legal empowerment Group-based inequality Property rightsBlog
How (not) to build state capabilityEffective and capable states are essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
SDGs SDG16 Building State CapabilitiesJournal Special Issue
Public economics and development actionTax, and public-sector matters more generally, is high on the agenda of international development. This is clearly reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by the United Nations General Assembly in September of 2015...
Public economics Public finance International taxationCreating, strengthening, and sharing knowledge for development Over the period 2019–23 UNU-WIDER research will focus on the interlinked development challenges of transforming economies, states, and societies. These transformations are central...
