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The end of poverty postponed?

Over a billion people living in poverty and a $500 million per day loss of income for the poorest people in the world could soon be reality. Blog by Andy Sumner, Chris Hoy, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez discusses their new research.

Africa’s lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust

There is growing unease that blindly replicating the COVID-19 policy responses of high-income countries might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in developing countries. 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!

COVID-19: macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis. The task for economic policy is to help keep people alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty.

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Journal Article: Tax-motivated transfer mispricing in South Africa - direct evidence using transaction data

This new Open Access article provides the first direct systematic evidence of profit shifting through transfer mispricing in a developing country.

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A significant natural resource discovery creates excited popular expectations of imminent wealth. But the size of a boom is usually overestimated and the delay in receiving revenues is underestimated...

Developing countries Institutions Macroeconomics

Working Paper

Understanding the boom: Country study—Tanzania

There are large volumes of gas offshore Tanzania, which has raised hopes of a boom. But those hopes look set to be disappointed. A boom would depend on there being a sizeable flow of revenue to government from producing and exporting gas...

Developing countries Institutions Natural resources

Working Paper

Stock-and-flow-consistent macroeconomic model for South Africa

We develop a stock-and-flow-consistent model for South Africa with four financial instruments and detailed balance sheets for the household, government, financial, non-financial, and foreign sectors and the Reserve Bank...

Stock and flow Macroeconomics Computable general equilibrium

Policy Brief

Aid is not dead: The latest evidence on the effectiveness of ODA Foreign aid Macroeconomics Tax revenue

Book Chapter

Global monetary co-operation and the exchange rate system

From the book: Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

Financial institutions International Foreign exchange

Book

Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...

Macroeconomics Financial institutions, International Foreign exchange

Journal Article

Aid, the Real Exchange Rate and Why Policy Matters: The Cases of Morocco and Tunisia

Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Macroeconomics Foreign aid

Journal Article

The Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Aid and Macroeconomic Transmission Mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana

Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Macroeconomics Foreign aid

Journal Article

Does Conditionality Mitigate the Potential Negative Effect of Aid on Revenues?

Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Macroeconomics Foreign aid

Journal Article

The Fiscal Effects of Aid in Ethiopia: Evidence from CVAR Applications

Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Macroeconomics Foreign aid

Journal Article

Fiscal Reforms and the Fiscal Effects of Aid in Uganda

Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Macroeconomics Foreign aid

Journal Article

The Return to Foreign Aid

Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Macroeconomics Foreign aid

Journal Article

The Macroeconomics of Aid: Overview

Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Macroeconomics Foreign aid

Journal Special Issue

Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Much criticism of aid rests on no evidence at all, on out-of-date studies (many of which are methodologically weak) or on a misunderstanding of causation and country context...

Macroeconomics Foreign aid

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The end of poverty postponed?

Over a billion people living in poverty and a $500 million per day loss of income for the poorest people in the world could soon be reality. Blog by Andy Sumner, Chris Hoy, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez discusses their new research.

Africa’s lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trust

There is growing unease that blindly replicating the COVID-19 policy responses of high-income countries might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in developing countries. 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!

COVID-19: macroeconomic dimensions in the developing world

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis. The task for economic policy is to help keep people alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty.

Support new 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.

Journal Article: Tax-motivated transfer mispricing in South Africa - direct evidence using transaction data

This new Open Access article provides the first direct systematic evidence of profit shifting through transfer mispricing in a developing country.

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

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