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From summits to solutions: what success means at COP26
At the 76 th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, world leaders discussed the need to scale-up ambition to address key global challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, political extremism, and widening inequality...
COP26 Developing countries Climate changeBook Chapter
Social mobility in developing countries: Directions for research practice, knowledge gaps and policy supportFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Inequality; Income inequalityBook Chapter
Economic approach to intergenerational mobility: Measures, methods, and challenges in developing countriesFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Intergenerational elasticity Developing countriesBook Chapter
Educational mobility in the developing worldFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Educational mobility Developing countries Educational expansionBook Chapter
Income mobility in the developing world: Recent approaches and evidenceFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Intragenerational mobility Intergenerational Mobility Welfare dynamicsBook Chapter
Social mobility in developing countries: Measurement and downward mobility pitfallsFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Intergenerational Mobility Measurement Developing countriesBook Chapter
The state of knowledge about social mobility in the developing worldFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Inequality IncomeWorking Paper
Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdataThis paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working conditions...
Vulnerable employment Gender gap Developing countriesPresentation
UNU-WIDER at International Economic Association World CongressUNU-WIDER’s research project 'The changing nature of work and inequality' will have a special live session at the IEA World Congress Indonesia 2021. Finn Tarp and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa will also present on ‘The Role of Redistribution in the Inequality...
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Arkebe Oqubay on the economic implications of COVID-19 crisis for developing countries
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Setting the sceneFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Inequality Developing countries Middle-income countriesBook
Inequality in the Developing WorldInequality has emerged as a key development challenge...
Inequality; Developing countries Middle-income countriesWorking Paper
Heterogeneous informality in Costa Rica and NicaraguaInformal work is often considered a place of employment for marginalized and vulnerable workers who have been rationed out of preferred formal work...
Informality Developing countries Costa RicaWorking Paper
Motherhood and flexible jobs: Evidence from Latin American countriesWe study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay...
child penalty event study female labour supplyPolicy Brief
Migration governance in the Global SouthBuilding knowledge about migration governance and policy in the Global South is a priority for research and policy. Migration is a defining feature of our time and one closely linked with processes of economic and political development...
International migration Emigration and immigration Economic Policy and Good GovernanceBlog
The debate around intellectual property rights and the COVID-19 vaccine
The most effective way to fight COVID-19 is by vaccinating against infection. But once the vaccine is developed, how can it be distributed across the world’s population?...
COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine Intellectual property rights