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Conference session at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association conferenceThe changing nature of work and inequality project at UNU-WIDER will present recent research in a session at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA-LAMES) Annual Meeting Bogotá 2021 . About the session: The Changing...
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UNU-WIDER at International Economic Association World CongressUNU-WIDER’s research project 'The changing nature of work and inequality' will have a special live session at the IEA World Congress Indonesia 2021. Finn Tarp and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa will also present on ‘The Role of Redistribution in the Inequality...
Project workshop
Virtual workshop on the changing nature of work and inequalityThe changing nature of work and inequality project will hold a workshop online to discuss research in progress on 24-26 March via Zoom. The original workshop to be convened in Tunis, Tunisia has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Country-...
Working Paper
Globotics and development: When manufacturing is jobless and services are tradableGlobalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace since they are driven by digital technology that is advancing in phenomenal increments...
Globalization Robotics Service-led developmentBook Chapter
Asia and the World Economy in Historical PerspectiveFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Malthus-Ricardo model Dynastic cycle GlobalizationPlenary session
The globotics transformation and developmentWatch the live stream recording Digital technology is transforming globalization and robotics (‘globotics’) at a furious pace, and thus changing the opportunities and challenges facing developing and developed economies. This talk argues...
Technology Robotics AutomationWorking Paper
Asia and the world economy in historical perspectiveThis paper studies the political and economic evolution of trade and international relations of the nations and regions of Asia between themselves and the rest of the world over the past millennium, paying particular attention to: the Pax Mongolica a...
Malthus-Ricardo model Dynastic cycle GlobalizationWorking Paper
Variation in structural change around the world, 1985–2015: Patterns, causes and implicationsDuring 1985–2015, globalization intensified the factor-endowment-related pattern of sectoral specialization. In skill-abundant developed countries, manufacturing became more skill-intensive...
Structural change Industrialization GlobalizationPolicy Brief
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Structural transformation in the world economy: On the significance of developing countriesThis paper outlines the contours of global economic development, since 1980, to analyse underlying factors and consider future implications...
Economic development Economic growth GlobalizationAbout
Presentation - AL9The title of the lecture is ‘The World is not Flat: Inequality and Injustice in our Global Economy’. The reference to ‘flatness’ alludes to the more level playing field due to globalization that has enabled China, India, and...
Inequality Justice GlobalizationBook
Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging AsiaThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Competition Econometrics GlobalizationBook
Made in Africa: Learning to Compete in IndustryOver the past forty years, industry and business interests have moved increasingly from the developed to the developing world, yet Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about 3 percent in 1970 to less than 2 percent in 2014...
Competition Econometrics GlobalizationWorking Paper
Global economic governance and economic policy: A personal perspectiveThe policy advice given by economists in international institutions is influenced by their prior academic work...
Aeronautics Globalization International economic relationsBook Chapter
Aid to Africa :: The Changing ContextFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2...
Economic development Globalization International economic relationsJournal Article
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations: Lessons Learned from the Greater Zambeze River Valley and BeyondPart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and the Zambezi River Valley
Climate change Environmental policy Globalization