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Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial studyIn this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether asking Vietnamese men to reflect on gender equality can reduce their gender bias...
Gender Inequality Male perceptionPanel discussion
Addressing group-based inequalities presents at the APSA 2022 annual meetingOn 17 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Addressing ethnic inequality: Experiences of reform. The panel, chaired by UNU-...
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Electoral politics and Mexico’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-outGovernment responsiveness is an integral feature of representative democracy. Its importance could be amplified in times of crisis, especially if citizens cannot rely on market actors for help...
COVID-19 COVID-19 policy response COVID-19 vaccineWorking Paper
Growth and inequality convergence: the role of environmentally related impacts on human capitalWe examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries...
Inequality Convergence environmental impactWorking Paper
Who was impacted and how? COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in IndiaWe investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate aftermath and during the uneven recovery until December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityWorking Paper
Inequality and human development: The role of different parts of the income distributionIn this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution...
Human development Inequality InstitutionsNews
UNU-WIDER alum Nanak Kakwani releases a new book on poverty and inequalityProfessor Nanak Kakwani is one of UNU-WIDER's first research fellows. Joining the institute in 1986, he is the author of the second WIDER Working Paper ever published. The first is Food, Economics, and Entitlements by UNU-WIDER founder and Nobel...
Economics Poverty InequalityJournal Article
Income distribution and the potential of redistributive systems in Africa: A decomposition approachRedistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are expanding in order to finance increasing public spending...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policy MicrosimulationProject workshop
World Income Inequality Database (WIID) authors' workshopUNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database research project holds a virtual workshop that brings together researchers selected under the project's open call for research proposals. The selected papers fulfill a project aim to improve understanding...
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Want to catch up on UNU-WIDER research? Here are 10 of the most interesting papers published over the last year
In this blog, the managing editor of the WIDER Angle shares his personal view on some of the most important —and potentially overlooked— work recently released in the WIDER Working Paper Series...
Inequality Macroeconomics IndonesiaWorking Paper
On data and trends in horizontal inequalityEconomic, social, and political inequalities are at the forefront of today’s public debate...
Inequality Group-based inequality Horizontal inequalityWorking Paper
Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet NamViet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority do not benefit equally from the national economic progress...
Poverty reduction Inequality Ethnic minoritiesPresentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policySocial mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
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The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in MozambiqueThis study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty, we rely on existing estimated macroeconomic impacts...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityPresentation
Social mobility in developing countries: Pathways for research and policy at Shiv Nadar UniversitySocial mobility is critical to major global goals, those enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals and to the broader goals of development. Yet, little attention has been given to a serious study of social mobility in developing countries to...
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Carlos Gradín shares project findings at JICA-IPD Employment Task Force meeting at Columbia UniversityUNU-WIDER Research Fellow Carlos Gradín is invited to speak at the JICA-IPD Employment Task Force meeting convened by the Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ) and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University ( IPD )...