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Reflections on thinking development, thinking WIDER
13 September through 15 September 2018, UNU-WIDER hosted the Think development - Think WIDER conference in Helsinki, Finland...
WIDER Development Conference Development Economics Economic policyBlog
What is the future of industrial policy in Africa: Views from Experts
13 September through 15 September 2018, UNU-WIDER hosted the Think development - Think WIDER conference in Helsinki, Finland...
WIDER Development Conference Development Economics Economic policyBlog
Development policy in an era of robots: Views from the experts
From 13 September to 15 September the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) hosted the Think development - Think WIDER conference in Helsinki, Finland...
WIDER Development Conference Development Economics Economic policyWorking Paper
Viet Nam: The dragon that rose from the ashesThis study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations , published in 1968...
Growth Poverty InequalityJournal Article
Poverty dynamics and graduation from conditional cash transfers: A transition model for Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera programThe effects of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. However, there is limited knowledge on how a CCT should respond to the dynamics of poverty...
Panel analysis Poverty Measurement (Poverty)Blog
Poverty and Inequality – twins or just siblings?
Sitting in the large conference room where we are being invited to ‘Think WIDER’ at the WIDER Development Conference this September...
Poverty and inequality Poverty InequalityWorking Paper
Socio-economic development in South Asia: The past 50 yearsThe story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one...
Growth Poverty InequalityWorking Paper
Pro-poor growth in Indonesia: Challenging the pessimism of Myrdal’s Asian DramaThis chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia’s development prospects...
Governance Poverty Pro-poorWorking Paper
China’s growth miracle in the context of Asian transformationMyrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he was about other Asian countries in his book...
Transitional economies Economic growth PovertyWorking Paper
Simulating the effect on households’ real consumption and poverty of the increase in prices that followed the 2015–16 economic crisis in MozambiquePoverty declined substantially in Mozambique between 1996/97 and 2014/15. However, the recent economic crisis, characterized by a significant increase in domestic prices, may have dragged several households into poverty...
price increase Economic crisis PovertyJournal Article
Does Horizontal Inequality Matter in Vietnam?This paper examines the issue of horizontal inequalities in Vietnam over the past 20 years...
Viet Nam Horizontal inequality Ethnic relationsJournal Article
Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reductionThe existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries...
Income tax Poverty Public goodsWorking Paper
A role for universal pension? Simulating universal pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South AfricaWe use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa to evaluate ex ante the expansion of a universal old-age pension in a static setting...
Old-age benefit Poverty SOUTHMODJournal Article
Vertical and Horizontal Inequality in Ecuador: The Lack of SustainabilityWe analyse the evolution of vertical and horizontal inequality in Ecuador in the long-run (1990–2016), as well as during and after the recent commodities boom (2005–2014)...
Equality and inequality Poverty Sustainable developmentPolicy Brief
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Welfare dynamics measurement: Two definitions of a vulnerability line and their empirical applicationPart of Journal Special Issue Inequality
Welfare dynamics Poverty Vulnerability