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On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governanceInequality is a major international development challenge. This is so from an ethical perspective and because greater inequality is perceived to be detrimental to key socioeconomic and political outcomes...
Inequality Growth HealthWorking Paper
Two decades of Tanzanian health policy: Examining policy developments and opportunities through a gender lensTanzania has undertaken important health sector reforms in the new millennium, and the most recent Health Sector Strategic Plan (2021–26) lays out ambitious targets to achieve universal health coverage...
Tanzania Women HealthBook Chapter
Social mobility and human capital in low- and middle-income countriesFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Human capital Cognitive ability
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Child labour during pandemic - UNU-WIDER expert interviewed for a Finnish development news portalUNU-WIDER Research Associate Milla Nyyssölä was interviewed for an article discussing the increase of child labour during corona pandemia. The article is published on a Finnish development news portal Maailma.net.
COVID-19 Child labour ChildrenWorking Paper
On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governanceCountering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major development challenge...
Inequality Growth HealthWorking Paper
Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: solutions and actionsThis second paper on hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting builds on our first, which evaluated the economic and social cost (SCAR) of wasted natural gas...
Energy transition Gas HealthWorking Paper
Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring: evaluation of the issuesAtmospheric emissions urgently need to reduce for natural gas to fulfill its potential role in the energy transition to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change...
Energy transition Gas HealthBlog
Changing the lives of very young children: Evidence from RwandaGlobally, around 250 million children under the age of five do not meet key development milestones, which reduces their ability to reach their full potential...
Social mobility Human capital Cognitive abilityWorking Paper
Health, development, and institutional factors: The Mozambique caseThe central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in Mozambique...
State Traditional medicine MozambiqueJournal Article
Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workersWe implement a lab-in-the-field experiment among childcare workers in Chandigarh, India, to evaluate discriminatory attitudes of the Hindu workers toward Muslim children...
Discrimination in employment Field experiments Health
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Inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan: Across-region studyThis study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of age, using the Sudanese 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey...
Health Children Inequality of opportunitiesWorking Paper
Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countriesParental human capital and endowments may affect children’s human capital, which in turn may affect children’s earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility...
Social mobility Human capital Cognitive abilityJournal Article
Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malariaCan agricultural development programs improve health-related outcomes? We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the coverage of a large-scale agricultural extensionprogram in Uganda to causally identify its effects on malaria...
Administrative law Agriculture Economic developmentBook Chapter
Excess female mortality in AfricaFrom the book: Towards Gender Equity in Development
Missing women Mortality Gender