UNU-WIDER : UNU-WIDER

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

Juan Arredondo Getty Images Images of Empowerment

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.

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

Journal Article

Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance?

ARTICLE ON EARLY VIEW: This paper uses a global dataset with information about 210,000 corporations in 142 countries to investigate whether tax avoidance by multinational firms is more prevalent in less-developed countries...

International business enterprises Tax evasion Taxation

Blog

Multinational Tax Avoidance in Developing Countries

by Niels Johannesen, Thomas Tørsløv, Ludvig Wier
April 2016

In recent years many global firms—including Starbucks, Google, and Amazon—have come under fire for avoiding paying taxes in one country by shifting their profits to a country with lower tax rates...

International business enterprises Tax evasion Taxation

Working Paper

Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance?: Method and evidence from micro-data

NOTE | Revised version May 2017 available. View and download the revised version...

International business enterprises Tax evasion Taxation

Book Chapter

Determinants of Industrial Embeddedness :: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in an African Economy

Recent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa...

Business networks Industrial organization (Economic theory) Industrial relations

China has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide variety of raw materials in increasing amounts in order to manufacture all kinds of products...

Business networks Industrialization International business enterprises

Working Paper

Indonesian Industrialization: A Latecomer Adjusting to Crises

This paper examines Indonesia’s industrialization performance and policies, including its latecomer status, its generally rapid growth since the mid-1960s, its pronounced policy and performance episodes, and its ambivalent embrace of globalizat...

Economic development Economic policy Industrialization

Journal Article

Entrepreneurship and human development: A capability approach

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA)...

Economic development Mathematical models (Economic development) Entrepreneurship

Journal Article

The impact of transport costs on new venture internationalisation

This paper investigates the importance of transport costs in new venture internationalisation, i.e. of firms that start exporting before they are 3 years of age...

International business enterprises International trade Transportation

Working Paper

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Developing Countries’ Terms of Trade

This paper first shows that important economic arguments in favor of the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis of falling terms of trade of developing countries have implicitly relied on the role of multinational corporations and foreign direct investment...

International business enterprises International trade Investments, Foreign

Working Paper

Determinants of Industrial Embeddedness: Evidence from African Manufacturing Firms

Recent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa...

Business networks Industrial organization (Economic theory) Industrial relations

Journal Article

Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in Brazil

Part of Journal Special Issue Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America

Commercial policy Globalization International business enterprises

Working Paper

Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA)...

Economic development Mathematical models (Economic development) Entrepreneurship

Journal Special Issue

Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States

In recent years there is a growing concern within the international donor community regarding the plight of a special group of countries labeled as 'Fragile States'...

Conflict management Economic assistance and foreign aid International business enterprises

Displaying 16 of 45 results.

Get started with the UNU WIDER website...

Recent events Projects Climate Change The Journal of Development Studies

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.

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

Filter by...

Type

Journal Article

Blog

Working Paper

Book Chapter

Book Chapter

Book Chapter

Book Chapter

Working Paper

Working Paper

Journal Article

Journal Article

Working Paper

Working Paper

Journal Article

Working Paper

Journal Special Issue