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Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality

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

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    Search image Rector of UNU and Under-Secretary-General of UN Tshilidzi Marwala, Norad’s Director General Bård Vegar Solhjell and UNU-WIDER’s director Kunal Sen in Oslo on 8 September 2023. UNU-WIDER and Norad continue collaboration on domestic revenue mobilization
    • Domestic revenue mobilization
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    Synthesis report: Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality
    Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality
    • Peacebuilding
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    UNU-WIDER’s new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) advances progress on SDG 8: Decent Work
    by Kunal Sen, Martha Chen August 2023

    UNU-WIDER’s 6-week online course on delivering Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG 8) brings together recent research on the linkages between economic...

    • SDG8
    • Informal work
    • Decent Work
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    Bangkok - Unsplash - Frida Aguilar Estrada Accelerating progress towards decent work and fairer societies – joint event with ESCAP
    26 September 2023 08:30 – 26 September 2023 11:30
    ESCAP, CR-4, UNCC, Rajadamnern Nok Avenue Khwaeng Bang Khun Phrom, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, Thailand
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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.

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    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
    Panel discussion
    UN HQ Accelerating progress towards fairer societies
    4 October 2023 12:00 – 4 October 2023 14:45
    United Nations Headquarters, Room CR 11, 405 E 45th St, New York, New York, United States
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    Cover image: Varieties of Structural Transformation
    Varieties of Structural Transformation
    • Structural transformation
    • Economic growth
    • Inequality
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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
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    TAZMOD model retreat 2022 The first-ever bundle of microsimulation models for the Global South released
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    • Tax-benefit microsimulation
    • SDG17
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    UNU-WIDER/ACRC keynote lecture by Dr Arkebe Oqubay 'Sustainable cities and structural transformation in Africa in the twenty-first century'

    On 9 November 2023, UNU-WIDER and the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) welcome Dr. Arkebe Oqubay, former Senior Minister and Special Adviser to Ethiopia's Prime Minister and former mayor of Addis Ababa, to present 'Sustainable cities and...

    9 November 2023 16:00 – 9 November 2023 18:30
    Event Square at Helsinki City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13, Sofiankatu 1, Helsinki, Finland
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    How to support the emergence of effective tax systems

    Cross-national or longitudinal evidence on which factors contribute to the development of effective tax systems in the Global South is lacking Global South countries still collect less than half the tax revenue of higher-income countries, when...

    • 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
    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
    Working Paper
    Social protection, the COVID-19 crisis, and the informal economy

    This paper considers the implications of COVID-19 relief measures for the building and extension of comprehensive and universal social protection systems. It highlights three key areas emerging from the crisis, which are likely to affect the shape of...

    • Informal work
    • Universalism
    • Social protection
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    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...

    Working Paper
    What drives parental investments in early childhood?

    This paper investigates the causal impact of a randomized video intervention designed to study the determinants of parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided information and...

    • Child development
    • parental investment
    • Subjective beliefs
    Working Paper
    Transforming rural economies through tertiary education

    This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for 2011, we find that skilled workers have had an important impact on rural prosperity. A 1 percentage point rise in the share of the...

    • Rural
    • Transformation
    • Education
    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
    Working Paper
    Temperature, climate change, and household financial behaviour

    We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that matches...

    • Temperature
    • Weather shock
    • Climate change
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    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
    Research Brief
    Perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique
    • Inequality
    • Distributional preferences
    • Axioms
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    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
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    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
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    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.

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