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Legal Empowerment and Group-Based InequalityPart of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequalityBlog
Reflections on thinking development, thinking WIDER
13 September through 15 September 2018, UNU-WIDER hosted the Think development - Think WIDER conference in Helsinki, Finland...
WIDER Development Conference Development Economics Economic policyBlog
Development policy in an era of robots: Views from the experts
From 13 September to 15 September the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) hosted the Think development - Think WIDER conference in Helsinki, Finland...
WIDER Development Conference Development Economics Economic policyWorking 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 InequalityBlog
Poverty and Inequality – twins or just siblings?
Sitting in the large conference room where we are being invited to ‘Think WIDER’ at the WIDER Development Conference this September...
Poverty and inequality Poverty InequalityJournal Article
Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in GuatemalaWith the second largest indigenous population by percentage in Latin America, Guatemala is an important case for understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics...
Inequality Ethnicity SchoolingWorking Paper
Socio-economic development in South Asia: The past 50 yearsThe story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one...
Growth Poverty InequalityWorking Paper
Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcareThis paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over 50 years...
Healthcare Education StateWorking Paper
Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: An application to MozambiqueIn this paper, I quantify the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality...
Inequality Decomposition RIFJournal Article
Taxation and Inequality in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Recent Experience of Latin AmericaPart of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
tax policy Inequality RedistributionWorking Paper
Legal empowerment and group-based inequalityLegal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion...
Legal empowerment Ethnicity Horizontal inequalityWorking Paper
Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investmentGovernments’ revenues are lower when multinational enterprises avoid paying corporate income tax by shifting their profits to tax havens...
Foreign Direct Investment corporate income tax tax avoidanceWorking Paper
Fiscal pressure of migration & horizontal fiscal inequality: Evidence from Indian experienceThis paper examines the patterns and trends in inter-state migration across Indian states and observes that migration is affected by demographic profile as well as the fiscal profile of states...
Migration Inequality DemographyJournal Article
Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000–2014Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality
Wealth Assets DebtsJournal Article
Global inequality: Relatively lower, absolutely higherPart of Journal Special Issue Inequality
Global interpersonal inequality Inequality Inequality measurementJournal Article
Inequality: Measurement, trends, impacts and policiesPart of Journal Special Issue Inequality
Developing countries Inequality Poverty