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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.

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

How is COVID-19 changing development? A WIDER Webinar Series

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!

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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UNU-WIDER has partnered up with a team of international researchers from across four institutes on an exciting and very timely research initiative to collect real time data on the coronavirus and its social and economic consequences.

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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51 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2. Marriage is the single most important contractual arrangement youth in North Africa undertake as they navigate their transition to adulthood...

Economic aspects (Families) Game theory Power (Economics)

Working Paper

The Role of Issue Linkage in Managing the Mekong

The Mekong River is the major water source in Southeast Asia and shared by six countries...

Environment Game theory International relations

Working Paper

Consumption Bundle Aggregation in Poverty Measurement: Implications for Poverty and its Dynamics in Uganda

Official poverty figures in Uganda are flawed by the fact that the underlying poverty lines are based on a single national food basket that was constructed in the early 1990s...

Econometric models (Economic development) Game theory Health

Working Paper

Multi-dimensional Poverty Analysis for Tanzania: First Order Dominance Approach with Discrete Indicators

As in much of sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania has attained rapid economic growth accompanied by only marginal reductions in poverty...

Economic growth Game theory Measurement (Poverty)

Working Paper

Multidimensional Poverty in Nigeria: First Order Dominance Approach

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. (2012)...

Game theory Microeconomics Poverty

Working Paper

Multidimensional Welfare in Districts of Zambia: A First Order Dominance Approach

In this paper we make welfare comparisons among districts of Zambia using multidimensional well-being indicators observed at the household level using the first order dominance approach developed by Arndt et al. in 2012...

Game theory Poverty Welfare economics

Working Paper

The Economics of Marriage in North Africa

Marriage is the single most important economic transaction and social transition in the lives of young people. Yet little is known about the economics of marriage in much of the developing world...

Economic aspects (Families) Game theory Power (Economics)

Journal Article

Do Non-Enforceable Contracts Matter?: Evidence from an International Lab Experiment

Part of Journal Special Issue Poverty, Development, and Behavioral Economics

Contracts Game theory

Working Paper

Intra-Household Efficiency: an Experimental Study from Ethiopia

An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models...

Econometric models (Economic development) Game theory Women

Journal Article

Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development and Welfare: An Intertemporal Analysis

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Aid

Capital investments Economic assistance and foreign aid Game theory

Journal Article

Foreign Aid as Prize: Incentives for a Pro-Poor Policy

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Aid

Economic assistance and foreign aid Game theory Public welfare

Working Paper

Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development, and Welfare: An Intertemporal Analysis

This paper examines the welfare implications of foreign aid within the framework of a two-period, two-country model of international trade...

Capital investments Economic assistance and foreign aid Game theory

Working Paper

Foreign Aid as Prize: Incentives for a Pro-Poor Policy

We develop a theoretical model of foreign aid to analyse a method of disbursement of aid which induces the recipient government to follow a more pro-poor policy than it otherwise would do...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Game theory Public welfare

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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.

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

How is COVID-19 changing development? A WIDER Webinar Series

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!

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.

Support new COVID-19 research - take the survey today

UNU-WIDER has partnered up with a team of international researchers from across four institutes on an exciting and very timely research initiative to collect real time data on the coronavirus and its social and economic consequences.

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.

Visit our YouTube channel

Want to catch up on our recent events? Find out what Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz think about the SDGs? Click here to visit us on YouTube.

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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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