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UNU-WIDER alum Nanak Kakwani releases a new book on poverty and inequalityProfessor Nanak Kakwani is one of UNU-WIDER's first research fellows. Joining the institute in 1986, he is the author of the second WIDER Working Paper ever published. The first is Food, Economics, and Entitlements by UNU-WIDER founder and Nobel...
Economics Poverty InequalityNews
Pathfinding new book on Social Mobility in Developing Countries out now
Economics social sciences Social mobility 
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Supply or demand? Exploring the mechanisms behind the rise of female labour force participation in MexicoAt the global level, gender gaps in labour force participation have narrowed and over half a billion women have joined the workforce in the last 30 years...
Women's work Female labour force participation EconomicsBlog
Is COVID-19 really an exogenous shock?"We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." – Albert Einstein Economists invariably divide shocks into two types: endogenous and exogenous...
COVID-19 Economics ShocksWorking Paper
Institutional differences across resource-based economiesTo predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies...
Economic growth Economics Political scienceAnnual Lecture
Development research and changing prioritiesIn 2015 WIDER Annual Lecture 19 was given by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. He discussed the overall challenge of sustainable and human-focused development including new and old challenges...
Democracy Economic development Economics
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How the World Works: Jobs and Structural Transformation as Keys to Development
27 August 2014 Roger Williamson The themes of the new UNU-WIDER work programme—transformation, inclusion, and sustainability—were the focus of the WIDER Development Conference held in Vietnam in June this year...
Economic development Economics Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Blog
Research Communication: Why Doesn’t Research Turn Into Policy?
30 October 2012 At the recent UNU-WIDER research conference on development and climate change, the communications team took the opportunity to ask participants visiting us here in Helsinki for their views on how research turns into policy...
Climate change Economic policy EconomicsBlog
Research Entering the Policy Domain
Carl-Gustav Lindén The research project ReCom-Research and Communication on foreign aid, which is co-ordinated by UNU-WIDER with funding from the development agencies Danida and Sida, is now midway through its life...
Economic development Economic policy EconomicsBlog
UNU-WIDER: More Needed Than Ever
24 September 2009 Finn Tarp, New Director at UN University-WIDER* ‘Some of us believe in analysing, some of us believe in humanising’ - Donovan, Children of the World from Slow Down World In my student days in the early-to-mid 1970s in De...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Economic development projectsBlog
Private Military Companies from Renaissance Italy to Modern Day Afghanistan
Jurgen Brauer Military contractors - condottiere - and their men were not welcome anywhere in Renaissance Europe. No one enjoyed the presence of these mercenary forces, and all were desperate to make them go away, fast and by whatever means...
Conflict management EconomicsReport
Development Agendas and Insights: 20 Years of UNU-WIDER ResearchThis publication reviews twenty years of WIDER research into economic development. Many of the issues – such as poverty, finance and conflict – are as relevant today as they were two decades ago...
Economic development Economics Regional economicsBook Chapter
Wider Thinking AheadFrom the book: Development Agendas and Insights
Economic development Economics