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UNU-WIDER's LDC5 Conference Exhibition

Visit the virtual booth featuring materials shared at the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Doha, Qatar. Check out photos, videos, and infographics on our research results from LDCs.

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Capacity development in action: UNU-WIDER Winter School

In collaboration with Stellenbosch University, we organised an intensive winter school course on tax policy research, delivering training to 27 African researchers from 13 countries. Read more

Think WIDER Webinar Series – New perspectives on domestic revenue mobilization

This webinar series aims to facilitate a discussion on how domestic revenue mobilization can be supported in the Global South. Read more

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Introducing the WIDER Alumni

WIDER Alumni connects former UNU-WIDER PhD Fellows, Visiting scholars, research collaborators and personnel who share a unique and rich experience of learning and working together as the people behind the institute's research and operations. Read more

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

Working Paper

PROCEDE: a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in Mexico

This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme)...

Land tenure Poverty Inequalities

Journal Article

Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation

Part of Journal Special Issue Understanding agricultural development and change

Deforestation Agricultural productivity Land tenure

Working Paper

Land tenure security and internal migration in Tanzania

In this paper we study the impact of tenure security on rural to urban migration of household members over the age of 15...

Migration Land tenure Tenure security

Working Paper

Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Vietnam

This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Vietnam. We combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data...

Deforestation Agricultural productivity Land tenure

Journal Article

Land Governance, Gender Equality and Development: Past Achievements and Remaining Challenges

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid for Gender Equality and Development

Equality and inequality Land tenure Women

Blog

Extreme poverty - the poorest are being left behind

by James Stewart
March 2016

At our 30 th Anniversary Conference we took the chance to interview Martin Ravallion of Georgetown University—we asked him to discuss his recent work on extreme poverty, and to highlight what he believes the major challenges in this area will b...

Consumption Equality and inequality Land tenure

Working Paper

Inter- and intra-farm land fragmentation in Vietnam

This paper uses panel data at commune, household, and plot levels to study the causes and effects of agricultural land fragmentation in rural Vietnam...

Agriculture Farm produce Land tenure

Journal Article

Tenure Insecurity, Climate Variability and Renting out Decisions among Female Small-Holder Farmers in Ethiopia

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

Agriculture Econometric models (Economic development) Land tenure

Working Paper

Land issues in Vietnam 2006–14: Markets, property rights, and investment

This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Vietnam from a number of different angles...

Household survey Households Land tenure

Working Paper

Social and political capital in rural Vietnam

This paper exploits five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to investigate issues of social and political capital in rural Vietnam...

Economic development Families Household survey

Book Chapter

Land Tenure and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa

From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2...

Agriculture Environmental economics Land tenure

Journal Article

Weather Shocks and Cropland Decisions in Rural Mozambique

Economic development in low income settings is often associated with an expansion of higher-value agricultural activities...

Agriculture Climate change Economic development

Working Paper

Tenure Insecurity, Climate Variability, and Renting-Out Decisions Among Female Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia

Land tenure arrangements in Africa are generally skewed in favour of males. Compared to males, female plot owners face complex sets of constraints and systemic high tenure insecurity which culminate in low yields...

Agriculture Econometric models (Economic development) Land tenure