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Press Release: New UN study on tax and social protection policies in Africa during COVID-19

In the first study of its kind on Africa, researchers found that tax and benefit policies provided limited income protection to poorest households but failed to offset the increase in poverty. Read more

COP26: Are We Ready?

On 28 October 2021 at 16:00 (UTC+3), UNU-WIDER organizes an online panel discussion titled COP26: Are We Ready? An international panel of experts specialising in mining, oil and gas will discuss key issues. Read more

Think WIDER Webinar Series – New perspectives on development

Think WIDER – New perspectives on development webinar series features a line-up of eminent researchers and development specialists who present their work and discuss new perspectives to the topic of global development. Learn more

NEW POLICY GUIDEBOOK: Deals and development in fragile and conflict-affected states

The guidebook is designed to help economic advisers to analyse country context and design interventions with the goal of enabling positive growth that reduces fragility.

Industrial Policy in the 21st Century – the Challenge for Africa

Our MOOC on industrial policy is open! Join this free self-paced course, with an instructor and regular opportunities to interact. Learn more

Visit our YouTube channel

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Inequality, institutions, and their impacts on social cooperation with Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

21 September 2021

Online, Finland

Past event

The aim of this paper is to find which of two theories of capital structure—trade-off theory or pecking order theory—best explains the capital structure decision of non-state firms during the post-transition process in Vietnam...

Capital Structure Human capital Trade-off theory

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Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in Brazil

In this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years...

Brazil Group-based inequality Ethnic diversity

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Press Release: New UN study on tax and social protection policies in Africa during COVID-19

In the first study of its kind on Africa, researchers found that tax and benefit policies provided limited income protection to poorest households but failed to offset the increase in poverty. Read more

COP26: Are We Ready?

On 28 October 2021 at 16:00 (UTC+3), UNU-WIDER organizes an online panel discussion titled COP26: Are We Ready? An international panel of experts specialising in mining, oil and gas will discuss key issues. Read more

Think WIDER Webinar Series – New perspectives on development

Think WIDER – New perspectives on development webinar series features a line-up of eminent researchers and development specialists who present their work and discuss new perspectives to the topic of global development. Learn more

NEW POLICY GUIDEBOOK: Deals and development in fragile and conflict-affected states

The guidebook is designed to help economic advisers to analyse country context and design interventions with the goal of enabling positive growth that reduces fragility.

Industrial Policy in the 21st Century – the Challenge for Africa

Our MOOC on industrial policy is open! Join this free self-paced course, with an instructor and regular opportunities to interact. Learn more

Visit our YouTube channel

Want to catch up on our recent events? Find out what Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz think about the SDGs? Click here to visit us on YouTube.

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