Photo: UN Photo / Christopher Herwig

NEW POLICY GUIDEBOOK: Deals and development in fragile and conflict-affected states

The guidebook is designed to help economic advisers to analyse country context and design interventions with the goal of enabling positive growth that reduces fragility.

NEW PROJECT: Institutional legacies of violent conflict

This project seeks to increase understanding among policymakers, academics and practitioners of how institutional dynamics that develop during violent conflicts shape state-building and economic development trajectories in the long run. More
UNDP-Bangladesh-COVID19

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

Check out the upcoming WIDER Webinar Series events to hear from renowned researchers on the impact of COVID-19 on development, and the implications for the Global South. Recordings of past events available too. Click here for more details
Shanghai, China - Unsplash / Chritie Kim

NEW OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Inequality in the Developing World

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. This book contributes to this important discussion by presenting assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars. Read more
Blue lights over a city

Have you heard about the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database?

The new database provides crucial information on changes in the economic structure of economies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Preliminary findings suggest a trend reversal in many developing countries towards industrialization. Read more
Photo: Alexander Zach / UNU-WIDER

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.
Photo: Alexander Zach / UNU-WIDER

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.

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

Filter by...

Reset all
Type
Show results
Good governance
Blog
A world of protest

That we are living in an era of popular protest is undeniable. A quick survey of headlines from around the world — or better yet, your social media feed — reveals countless uprisings unfolding in real time...

Social conflict Good governance Social movement
Blog
The Nordic Model — lessons for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, like the Nordic countries, is a social democratic nation with a strong welfare state...

Social protection Economic growth Labour market
Book Chapter
The World Bank’s Health Projects in Timor-Leste: The Political Economy of Effective Aid

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
Education from the Bottom Up: UNICEF’s Education Programme in Somalia

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
Liberia’s Gender-Sensitive Police Reform: Improving Representation and Responsiveness in a Post-Conflict Setting

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
‘Embedded’ Assistance: Finn Church Aid’s Secondment in Somalia

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
The Yemen Social Fund for Development: An Effective Community-Based Approach amid Political Instability

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
The National Solidarity Programme: Assessing the Effects of Community-Driven Development in Afghanistan

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book Chapter
Good Aid in Hard Places: Learning from ‘Successful’ Interventions in Fragile Situations

From the book: Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Book
Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at www.tandfebooks.com and offered as a free PDF download from Taylor & Francis Group and selected open access locations...

Peacebuilding Conflict Foreign aid
Blog
WDR 2017 does not disappoint: Four implications for work in development

As a political scientist specializing in the comparative politics of development, including particular attention to issues of governance and democracy, I have followed this year’s World Development Report with special interest...

World Development Report Good governance Group-based inequality
Project
Photo: UN Photo/Tim McKulka Foreign aid and democracy in Africa

Theme: 2010-11

Foreign aid Development Economics Good governance
Displaying 12 of 12 results.
Get started with the UNU WIDER website...
Recent eventsProjectsClimate ChangeThe Journal of Development Studies