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Journal Article: How polarized is the global income distribution?

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution.

Policy Brief: The business environment of Mozambican manufacturing firms

The 2017 Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms builds on data collected in 2012 from surviving firms to trace how changing economic conditions have affected the development of firms over five years.

Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

The central goal of the project is to support inclusive growth, growth that substantially improves the living standards of the Mozambican population.

Journal Special Issue: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

This journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place. The journal, as the studies in this collection, gives special emphasis to the role natural endowments, p

United Nations University Annual Report 2017

UNU Annual Report 2017

Explore the “who” and “what” of UNU’s work in 2017 and learn how our ideas generate solutions to improve the lives of people everywhere

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.

Sustainable Development Explorer

UNU has launched its Sustainable Development Explorer, a new campaign highlighting ongoing work to support each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Visit our YouTube channel

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

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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

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

Research Brief

Oil in Ghana: How inflated expectations of oil revenues led to a deterioration in macroeconomic management Oil Ghana extractives industry

Blog

Bringing together macroeconomic policy actors in Mozambique to reflect on current challenges and future scenarios

by Ricardo Santos
November 2016

On 25 October 2016, the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique project brought together key actors in macroeconomic policy management from the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Mozambique, and Mozambican academia...

Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Macroeconomics

Video

WIDER Annual Lecture by Antonio Ocampo

View the WIDER Annual Lecture on Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture.

Public goods International finance Financial stability

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Journal Article: How polarized is the global income distribution?

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution.

Policy Brief: The business environment of Mozambican manufacturing firms

The 2017 Survey of Mozambican Manufacturing Firms builds on data collected in 2012 from surviving firms to trace how changing economic conditions have affected the development of firms over five years.

Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

The central goal of the project is to support inclusive growth, growth that substantially improves the living standards of the Mozambican population.

Journal Special Issue: Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

This journal presents a synopsis of the contextual conditions, factors and challenges under which the recent evolution of tax systems has taken place. The journal, as the studies in this collection, gives special emphasis to the role natural endowments, p

UNU Annual Report 2017

Explore the “who” and “what” of UNU’s work in 2017 and learn how our ideas generate solutions to improve the lives of people everywhere

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.

Sustainable Development Explorer

UNU has launched its Sustainable Development Explorer, a new campaign highlighting ongoing work to support each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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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