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Blog: Research insights, new friends and meeting Stiglitz

In this blog Shreya Bhattacharya, PhD candidate at University of Houston, talks about her research, future aspirations, and her experience as a PhD Fellow at UNU-WIDER.

Journal Article: What does it mean to be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique

Open access | This article reflects on the merits of seeking to reconcile economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) analytical approaches.

Women selling vegetables in a market in Pyapon. Myanmar Photo: Markus Kostner / World Bank

Blog: Transforming economies, states, and societies – building evidence for achieving the SDGs

Presenting the new work programme

Book: Extractive Industries

Open access | New initiatives recognize that resource wealth can provide a means, when properly used, for poorer nations to decisively break with poverty by diversifying economies and funding development spending.

Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

The central goal of the project is to support inclusive growth, growth that substantially improves the living standards of the Mozambican population.

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In the media

SA-TIED research on South Africa's energy future in the news Climate change climate mitigation climate adaptation

Working Paper

Foreign aid and climate change policy: What can(’t) the data tell us?

Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries...

Adaptation Climate change Climate change mitigation

Book Chapter

Conclusions

From the book: Extractive Industries

Mining Extractive industries Climate change

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...

Resource revenues Climate change Mining

Working Paper

Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households

This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam...

Climate change Migration Food industry and trade

Working Paper

Climate change and the extractives sector

The extractives industries must adjust their operations to shifting patterns of demand for oil, natural gas, and coal together with metals and minerals – as policies and new technologies encourage progress along low-carbon pathways in energy, t...

Extractives Oil Natural gas