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The end of poverty postponed?

Over a billion people living in poverty and a $500 million per day loss of income for the poorest people in the world could soon be reality. Blog by Andy Sumner, Chris Hoy, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez discusses their new research.
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Africa’s lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust

There is growing unease that blindly replicating the COVID-19 policy responses of high-income countries might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in developing countries. Read more
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Catch up on recordings from the WIDER Webinar Series to hear from renowned researchers on the impact of COVID-19 on development, and the implications for the Global South. More webinars to be announced soon!
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COVID-19: macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis. The task for economic policy is to help keep people alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty.
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Journal Article: Tax-motivated transfer mispricing in South Africa - direct evidence using transaction data

This new Open Access article provides the first direct systematic evidence of profit shifting through transfer mispricing in a developing country.
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How Africa can fight the pandemic

The response to Africa’s COVID-19 plight must be swift and at scale rather than too little, too late...

COVID-19 pandemic Economic Policy and Good Governance
Working Paper
Linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya

In recent decades, the impact of South African foreign direct investment in Africa has been captured by research and policy. This paper investigates linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya...

Foreign Direct Investment Economic linkages Spillover effects
Journal Article
Can Business Rights Alleviate Group-Based Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa?: Understanding the Limits to Reform

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

Group-based inequality Minorities Business
Policy Brief
 Experiments in government performance experiments Economic Policy and Good Governance
Presentation
Symposium on the Interface of Academic Research and Government Policy

6 December 2013 – 11 December 2013
Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Project
The Middle East, North Africa, and climate change

Theme: 2010-11

Sustaining development in developing countries has never been as complicated a task as it is today in the face of a world characterized by tremendous competition over resources that are becoming scarcer. Climate change and its impact on water...

Economic Policy and Good Governance General equilibrium Climate change
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Falling inequality in Latin America – evidence from the last decade and prospects for the future

Theme: 2010-11

Economic Policy and Good Governance Economic crisis Poverty
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Land inequality and decentralized governance in LDCs

Theme: 2010-11

Economic Policy and Good Governance Land inequality Land rights
Annual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 4 - Globalization and Appropriate Governance

Globalization has come in for indiscriminate attack from critics who do not distinguish between different types of globalization (e.g. freer trade, freer capital flows, freer direct investment, and freer immigration) or between very different but...

27 November 2000
Assembly House of the Estates (Säätytalo), Snellmaninkatu 9-11, Helsinki, Finland
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