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Journal Article: How polarized is the global income distribution?

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution.

Policy Brief: The business environment of Mozambican manufacturing firms

The 2017 Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms builds on data collected in 2012 from surviving firms to trace how changing economic conditions have affected the development of firms over five years.

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.

Journal Special Issue: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

This journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place. The journal, as the studies in this collection, gives special emphasis to the role natural endowments, p

United Nations University Annual Report 2017

UNU Annual Report 2017

Explore the “who” and “what” of UNU’s work in 2017 and learn how our ideas generate solutions to improve the lives of people everywhere

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.

Sustainable Development Explorer

UNU has launched its Sustainable Development Explorer, a new campaign highlighting ongoing work to support each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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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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Journal Article: How polarized is the global income distribution?

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution.

Policy Brief: The business environment of Mozambican manufacturing firms

The 2017 Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms builds on data collected in 2012 from surviving firms to trace how changing economic conditions have affected the development of firms over five years.

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.

Journal Special Issue: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

This journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place. The journal, as the studies in this collection, gives special emphasis to the role natural endowments, p

UNU Annual Report 2017

Explore the “who” and “what” of UNU’s work in 2017 and learn how our ideas generate solutions to improve the lives of people everywhere

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.

Sustainable Development Explorer

UNU has launched its Sustainable Development Explorer, a new campaign highlighting ongoing work to support each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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.

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

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