Join the network
53 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...
Filter by...
Blog
The ins and outs of African industrialization: UNU-WIDER provides open access to a wealth of information
The question ‘why is there so little industrialization in Africa?’ has been a key focus of UNU-WIDER researchers and research partners for the last decade...
Industrialization Poverty JobsWorking Paper
Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in IndiaProductivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine...
Intergenerational Mobility Inequality GrowthBook Chapter
Trade in services: Opening markets to create opportunitiesFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Services Productivity GrowthBook Chapter
Telecommunication and ICT-based services tradeFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Telecommunication Growth InvestmentBook Chapter
Industries without smokestacks and structural transformation in Africa: OverviewFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
industry Growth InvestmentBook
Industries without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa ReconsideredThis 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...
industry Growth InvestmentWorking Paper
What might explain today’s conflicting narratives on global inequality?How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one often hears? This paper reviews the arguments and evidence...
Global inequality Measurement Household surveysPolicy Brief
Industries without smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa reconsideredOur research shows that structural change in Africa is relying on a new set of economic activities, called ‘industries without smokestacks’, created by recent technological changes and a changing global market place...
industry Growth InvestmentWorking Paper
Viet Nam: The dragon that rose from the ashesThis study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations , published in 1968...
Growth Poverty InequalityWorking Paper
A short history of India's economy: A chapter in the Asian dramaThis paper is a short history of the Indian economy since 1968. India today is a changed country from what it was half a century ago, when Myrdal published his Asian Drama...
Growth Political economy CorruptionWorking Paper
Socio-economic development in South Asia: The past 50 yearsThe story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one...
Growth Poverty InequalityWorking Paper
Pro-poor growth in Indonesia: Challenging the pessimism of Myrdal’s Asian DramaThis chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia’s development prospects...
Governance Poverty Pro-poorWorking Paper
Escaping the periphery: The East Asian ‘mystery’ solvedFew non-western countries have reached the general prosperity of Western Europe and North America in the past two centuries...
state capacity GrowthJournal Article
Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunitiesPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
South Africa Growth TransformationJournal Special Issue
Regional Growth OpportunitiesThis issue contains seven articles addressing the major changes underway in the integration of economies in southern Africa. This special issue is based on the UNU-WIDER project 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa'...
Growth Industrialization Natural resourcesWorking Paper
New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesisThe Republic of South Africa faces the imperative of escaping economic stagnation...
South Africa Growth Productivity