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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 )...
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Social mobility in the Global South – beyond poverty and inequality reductionA new book, Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, produced by UNU-WIDER and edited by Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna, and Kunal Sen and published by Oxford University Press offers students, researchers, and...
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Poverty, inequality, and growth: trends, policies, and controversiesReducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Much has changed in the global economy in recent decades and perspectives on progress made vary widely...
Poverty Inequality GrowthJournal Article
The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in MozambiqueTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This 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 InequalityJournal Article
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
The indirect costs of corporate tax avoidance exacerbate cross-country inequalityCorporate tax avoidance hampers domestic revenue mobilization and, with it, the development of lower- and middle-income countries...
Profit shifting Tax avoidance Tax havensJournal Article
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–beneft policies during the COVID‑19 pandemic: Evidence from EcuadorTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | By combining household survey data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with detailed tax-benefit simulations, this paper quantifies the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax-benefit poli...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyBlog
Advancing social mobility research: Where to start
Innovation in academic investigation and policy response is critical to addressing global challenges...
Social mobility labour market economics InequalityWorking Paper
Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilizationThe main aim of this paper is to explore theoretically important mechanisms through which economic inequalities may affect the emergence of political violence given the forms of social mobilization they (may) generate...
Inequality Political violence Social mobilizationIn the media
SOUTHMOD study on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa gains attention in media and different outlets
COVID-19 Africa Inequality Blog
Corona pandemic revealed gaps in African social security systems
Millions of Africans lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but state social security systems were of little help to people who lost their income...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyWorking Paper
Income distribution in Uganda based on tax registers: what do top incomes say?We use income data from tax registers at the Uganda Revenue Authority from 2011 to 2017 to estimate top income inequality, focusing on the very top—the top 1, 0.1, and 0.01 per cent of the income distribution...
Top incomes Inequality Tax dataWorking Paper
Inequality and growth: a review on a great open debate in economicsWhat is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for more than a century...
Economic growth Inequality RedistributionNews
Pathfinding new book on Social Mobility in Developing Countries out now
Economics social sciences Social mobility Project workshop
Addressing group-based inequalities work in progress workshopThe UNU-WIDER project Addressing group-based inequalities holds a virtual workshop to discuss research on 'Experiences of Reform', the component of the project which offers a comparative assessment of worldwide efforts to reduce group-based...
Journal Article
Income distribution and the potential of redistributive systems in Africa: A decomposition approachTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are expanding in order to finance increasing public spending...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policy Microsimulation