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Bootcamp for better tax policies in Africa
‘I intend to see a world in which tax policy research is based on evidence, and policy decisions are data-driven.’ This is an aspiration expressed by a participant of the WIDER Winter School 2022 ...
Tax compliance Capacity building DataBlog
Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than incomeWhat does it mean to be poor? On the face of it, this may not sound like a very difficult question. In developed countries, almost all official and everyday definitions refer to poverty in income terms...
Poverty Quantitative research AnthropologyLearning
UNU-WIDER Summer SchoolUNU-WIDER, in collaboration with the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) at University of Cape Town (UCT), is holding the 2-week intensive UNU-WIDER Summer School on applied labour economics in Cape Town 18-29 November 2019.
Database Labour market Quantitative researchJournal Article
What does it mean to be poor?: Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in MozambiqueMotivated by the siloed nature of much poverty research, as well as the challenge of finding inclusive operational definitions of poverty, this study reflects on the merits of seeking to reconcile economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitat...
Poverty analysis Poverty measurement Anthropology
Working Paper
Renewable energy in the Brazilian Amazon: The drivers of political economy and climateUnderstanding the political economic drivers of energy planning in the Brazilian Amazon is critical since the forest is increasingly vulnerable to destruction and related, increased poverty...
Quantitative research Renewable energy Sustainable developmentBlog
Inequality in Latin America and the Importance of Data - An Interview with Nora Lustig
In this interview Professor Nora Lustig , Samuel Z...
Education Equality and inequality Fiscal policyBlog
From the Editor's Desk (March 2015)
I’m writing this editorial from Dar es Salaam, while at the 20 th anniversary workshop for Tanzania’s REPOA , one of our research partners...
Capitalism Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policyBlog
An Interview with David Malone 17 October 2013 In this video we interview the Rector of the United Nations University (UNU), David Malone from Canada, who has held both diplomatic and academic research positions, and who locates the UNU within the UN system as being on the interfa...
Economic development Qualitative research Quantitative researchBlog
Identifying 'What Works' in Foreign Aid: Experimental and Non-experimental Approaches24 September 2013 Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa UNU-WIDER's ReCom programme is centred around four core questions: what works, what could work, what is scalable, and what is transferrable in foreign aid?...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic surveys Quantitative researchJournal Article
Some Forward Looking Thoughts on Studying Climate Adaptation for an Uncertain Future: A Postscript Editorial CommentPart of Journal Special Issue Climate Change and Economic Development
Climate change Decision making Global warmingWorkshop
Introduction to data analysis using STATAPresentation
Working Paper
Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and TrendsThis paper examines data on urbanization. We review the most commonly used data sources, and highlight the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations...
Economic development Quantitative research Regional economics