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UN at 75: slow death or a new direction | Annual Lecture 24

The 2020 WIDER Annual Lecture by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown will take place online on 26 October. As the UN celebrates its 75th anniversary this WIDER Annual Lecture discusses whether the UN can reinvent itself, or whether it will sink into irrelevance? More

Why all countries should contribute to ending global poverty

Trillions of dollars have already been spent on the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and no one knows what the final bill will be. Is it possible to respond to a much longer crisis – global poverty – with even a fraction of these resources? More

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COVID-19 intensifies global need to support informal workers in their struggle

The world is facing an existential crisis that poses challenging questions: whether to put people and nature before owners of capital and technology; whether to protect the rights of the disadvantaged or the interests of the elite. Read more

COVID-19 and employment: Insights from the sub-Saharan African experience

While the full socio-economic consequences remain uncertain, the pandemic’s impact on the labour market has become an issue of global concern. Read more

Journal Special Issue: Understanding agricultural development and change

Using the case of Vietnam, this special issue brings together a set of high-quality academic studies to answer key research questions of importance to understanding agricultural development and change in developing country settings. Read more

How is COVID-19 changing development? A WIDER Webinar Series

Catch up on recordings from the WIDER Webinar Series to hear from renowned researchers on the impact of COVID-19 on development, and the implications for the Global South. More webinars to be announced soon!

Support COVID-19 research - take the survey today

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Visit our YouTube channel

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Research and policy briefs

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Blog

What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part II)

by Tony Addison
November 2011

Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a product and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. Part 1 of this two-part article, which appeared in the October Angle, focused on Latin America and Europe...

Economic growth Foreign exchange Interest rate

Blog

What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part I)

by Tony Addison
October 2011

Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a symptom and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. In part 1 of this two-part article, we focus on Latin America and Europe...

Depressions Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Foreign exchange

Working Paper

Sensitivity of Loan Size to Lending Rates: Evidence from Ghana’s Microfinance Sector

This paper examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used to test the hypothesis of loan price inelasticity...

Econometric models (Finance) Interest rate Microfinance

Housing is the single most important component of personal wealth in most countries...

Consumption (Economics) Housing Interest rate

Working Paper

The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in Vietnam

This paper deals with loan contracting from a private bank in Vietnam. We focus on the main loan contract features that the bank uses in lending to business firms, namely loan maturity, collateral and loan interest rate...

Banks and banking Business enterprises Contracts

Journal Article

El Tramo Corto de la Estructura a Plazo como Predictor de Expectativas de la Actividad Económica en Colombia

Part of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America

Inflation (Finance) Interest rate Monetary policy

Journal Article

The Behavior of Interest Rate Differentials under Shifting Exchange Rate Regimes: The Experience of Chile, Colombia and Israel

Part of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America

Foreign exchange Interest rate Monetary policy

Working Paper

Output and Price Fluctuations in China's Reform Years: What Role did Money Play?

The Chinese economy underwent cyclical fluctuations in growth and inflation in the reform period. Contrasting views exist on the role of money in such fluctuations...

Business cycles Interest rate Econometric models (Macroeconomics)

Working Paper

Testing for a Significant Change in the Egyptian Economy Under the Economic Reform Programme Era

Late 1990, Egypt witnessed major and radical changes in all areas of its national life—political, legal, economic and social—as a reflection of implementing an economic reform programme in order to achieve progress in its economic indicat...

Economic development Finance, Public Foreign exchange

Book Chapter

Crises? What Crises?: Escudo from ECU to EMU

From the book: Short-Term Capital Flows and Economic Crises

Economic integration Financial crisis Foreign exchange

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UN at 75: slow death or a new direction | Annual Lecture 24

The 2020 WIDER Annual Lecture by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown will take place online on 26 October. As the UN celebrates its 75th anniversary this WIDER Annual Lecture discusses whether the UN can reinvent itself, or whether it will sink into irrelevance? More

Why all countries should contribute to ending global poverty

Trillions of dollars have already been spent on the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and no one knows what the final bill will be. Is it possible to respond to a much longer crisis – global poverty – with even a fraction of these resources? More

COVID-19 intensifies global need to support informal workers in their struggle

The world is facing an existential crisis that poses challenging questions: whether to put people and nature before owners of capital and technology; whether to protect the rights of the disadvantaged or the interests of the elite. Read more

COVID-19 and employment: Insights from the sub-Saharan African experience

While the full socio-economic consequences remain uncertain, the pandemic’s impact on the labour market has become an issue of global concern. Read more

Journal Special Issue: Understanding agricultural development and change

Using the case of Vietnam, this special issue brings together a set of high-quality academic studies to answer key research questions of importance to understanding agricultural development and change in developing country settings. Read more

How is COVID-19 changing development? A WIDER Webinar Series

Catch up on recordings from the WIDER Webinar Series to hear from renowned researchers on the impact of COVID-19 on development, and the implications for the Global South. More webinars to be announced soon!

Support COVID-19 research - take the survey today

UNU-WIDER has partnered up with a team of international researchers from across four institutes on an exciting and very timely research initiative to collect real time data on the coronavirus and its social and economic consequences.

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.

Research and policy briefs

Evidence-based policymaking is crucial. Use our publications search to browse nearly 200 briefs which highlight the findings and policy implications of our research.

12 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

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