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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.

Research and policy briefs

Evidence-based policymaking is crucial. Use our publications search to browse nearly 200 briefs which highlight the findings and policy implications of our research.

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Policy seminar

Tony Addison presents at a high-level policy dialogue in Maputo

27 March 2019 – 28 March 2019

The Bank of Mozambique , Maputo, Mozambique

Past event

Seminar

Public Forum on extractive industry and development

The Inclusive growth in Mozambique programme will host a public forum on 26 March 2019 on the topic of Extractive Industry and Development. The Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER Tony Addison will give a presentation based on a major...

26 March 2019

Complexo Pedagógico, Room 1501, Main Campus, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique

Past event

Blog

Can natural resources jump-start industrialization?

by John Page
January 2019

At the end of last year, I filmed a lecture that will be part of a massive open online course (MOOC) on industrialization in Africa...

Industrialization structural change Employment and Industry

Presentation

Tony Addison gives a presentation on extractives at the OECD Development Centre seminar

Chief Economist and Deputy Director of UNU-WIDER, Tony Addison , is giving a presentation on 14 December at the OECD Development Centre’s seminar series Development in Transition. The seminar focuses on natural resources and sustainable...

14 December 2018

OECD, Paris, France

Past event

Presentation

Tony Addison presents the extractives book at the OECD

13 December 2018

OECD, Paris, France

Past event

Working Paper

Uganda’s oil: How much, when, and how will it be governed?

We study Uganda’s journey to become a petroleum producer and provide estimates regarding the size and timing of the oil revenues to be expected...

Extractives Extractive industries structural change

Presentation

UNU-WIDER researchers present at a conference of IMD in Maputo

26 November 2018

Southern Sun Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique

Past event

This paper is a sequel to an earlier paper that looked in broad terms at many of the issues that Mozambique faces today in managing its new extractive resources...

Economic diversification Economic transformation Extractive industries

Working Paper

Optimal local content for extractive industries: How can policies best create benefits for Tanzania?

Tanzania is rich with natural resources, which have significant potential to contribute to the country’s economic development...

Extractive industries Local content Mining

Blog

New book from Oxford University Press looks at how to make extractive industries sustainable and inclusive

by Oxford Policy Management Limited
September 2018

Originally posted by Oxford Policy Management The extractives sector, and the way it works, continues to change rapidly and its importance to many lower-income economies continues to increase...

Extractive industries Resource curse Policy coordination