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35 years of knowledge for change: Bringing inequality to the fore (1998-2020)

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Journal Special Issue: Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration

Looking at Vietnamese and Afghan migrants in Canada, Germany, the US, this special issue explores such experiences with a focus on inequality between migrants and host populations in countries of settlement. Read more
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NEW: Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) programme

The aim of UNU-WIDER’s DRM programme is to help improve developing countries’ tax systems and to strengthen their domestic capacities for revenue collection. The DRM programme is financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). More

UN at 75: slow death or a new direction? | Annual Lecture 24

RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE The 2020 WIDER Annual Lecture by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown discusses whether the UN can reinvent itself, or whether it will sink into irrelevance? More
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Building State Capabilities
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Kunal Sen How (not) to build state capability in developing countries
20 January 2020
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals , Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, Barcelona, Spain
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Project
UN Photo_Isaac Billy The state and statebuilding in the Global South – international and local interactions

Theme: Transforming states

Building State Capabilities state capacity Aid effectiveness
Project
UN Photo_Kibae Park How do effective states emerge?

Theme: Transforming states

Building State Capabilities state capacity Inclusive growth
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Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications

Theme: Transforming states

fiscal capacity Taxation Building State Capabilities
Working Paper
Doing business in a deals world: The doubly false premise of rules reform

The World Bank’s Doing Business reports have evoked an intense policy debate about whether countries should simplify regulatory rules in order to stimulate investment and growth, or make them more stringent in order to achieve public policy obj...

Business Deals Rules
Blog
How (not) to build state capability

Effective and capable states are essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

SDGs SDG16 Building State Capabilities
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Press release - Professor Kunal Sen starts as the director of UNU-WIDER

‘Economic transformation needs to be accompanied by political and social transformations if we are to see drastic increases in human wellbeing’

SDGs Transformation Informality
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