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Energy subsidies, international aid, and the politics of reformEnergy subsidy reform is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and tackling climate change. This paper sets out the evidence on the scale of subsidies and their impact...
Energy subsidies Fossil fuel subsidies aidWorking Paper
Worker retraining and transfer payments: The political economy of social protectionWe conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms...
Political economy Social protection Transfer paymentsWorking Paper
Political economy and governanceThis paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda...
Natural resources Extractives Political economyVideo
WIDER Annual Lecture by C. Peter TimmerView the WIDER Annual Lecture on Managing structural transformation post-2015.
Structural transformation Income distribution Millennium Development GoalsAbout
Presentation - AL18The WIDER Annual Lecture 18 was delivered on 18 November at the UN Headquarters in New York. The lecture, given by Professor Emeritus C. Peter Timmer of Harvard University, focused on the topic of structural transformation, especially within the...
Structural transformation Income distribution Millennium Development GoalsAbout
Photos - AL18Selection of images from the WIDER Annual Lecture 18.
Structural transformation Income distribution Millennium Development GoalsAbout
Contributors - AL18Short biographies of those who contributed to the event.
Structural transformation Income distribution Millennium Development GoalsIn the media
Vox article on the political hurdles facing a carbon tax — and how to overcome themBased partially on the WIDER Working Paper by Jesse Jenkins and Valerie Karplus, David Roberts from the news website Vox discusses the complex relationship between carbon pricing and binding political constraints.
Carbon tax Political economy Environmental economicsVideo
Climate Change and Human Conflict in Sub-Saharan AfricaConference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 6.1
Political economy Natural disasters Climate changeVideo
The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions project - an interview with Channing ArndtChanning Arndt , Senior Research Fellow of UNU-WIDER, presents the thinking behind this project and the study of implementation of clean energy policies. With the forthcoming Paris Conference of the Parties (CoP 21, December 2015) attention is...
Sustainable energy Climate change mitigation Political economyProject
The political economy of social protection systems
Theme: Inclusion
Taxation Social protection Income distributionProject
The politics of group-based inequalities - measurement, implications, and possibilities for change
Theme: Inclusion
Inclusion Inequality Horizontal inequalityProject
The political economy of clean energy transitions
Theme: Sustainability
Sustainable energy Climate change mitigation Political economyProject
The economics and politics of taxation and social protection
Theme: Inclusion
Tax Social protection Political economyAnnual Lecture
WIDER Annual Lecture 18 - Managing Structural Transformation Post-2015
Project meeting
Political economy of food price policyThis was the third and final meeting of participants in the Political Economy of Food Price Policy project , which is jointly led by UNU-WIDER, Cornell University, and the University of Copenhagen and partially supported by the Bill and Melinda...