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Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries - LDC Future Forum
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The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspectiveThis article reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to key development outcomes...
Resource abundance Inequality InstitutionsNews
Kunal Sen at the high-level LDC regional review meetingUNU-WIDER director Kunal Sen has been invited to contribute as a panelist to the High-level Asia-Pacific Regional Review Meeting on the Istanbul Programme of Action in Preparation for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed...
Least Developed Countries Sustainable development COVID-19News
Rachel Gisselquist at Expert Group Meetings of the 2021 United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable DevelopmentRachel Gisselquist will attend Expert Group Meetings (EGMs) on 19–20 May 2021 in preparation for the 2021 United Nations High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development. Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow and expert on inequality who...
SDGs Equality and inequalitySeminar
Myles Wickstead on the changing face of aid and development
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Shaping our future together – UNU-WIDER celebrates United Nations' 75th anniversary
United Nations Anniversary SDGs Journal Article
COVID-19 and global poverty: Are LDCs being left behind?The study paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on global poverty in the light of IMF’s growth forecasts...
COVID-19 Global poverty Least Developed CountriesWorking Paper
The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspectiveThis paper reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health...
Resource abundance Inequality InstitutionsWorking Paper
Precarity and the pandemic: COVID-19 and poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countriesThis paper makes a set of estimates for the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries and on the distribution of global poverty...
COVID-19 Crisis Global povertyWorking Paper
COVID-19 and global poverty: Are LDCs being left behind?This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19’s impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF’s April 2020 growth forecasts...
COVID-19 Global poverty Least Developed CountriesWorking Paper
Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global povertyIn this paper we make estimates of the potential short-term economic impact of COVID-19 on global monetary poverty through contractions in per capita household income or consumption...
Global poverty COVID-19 SDGsAnnual Lecture
Blog
How (not) to build state capabilityEffective and capable states are essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
SDGs SDG16 Building State CapabilitiesBlog
How can developing countries pay for the SDGs?With official development assistance under strain, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require developing countries to rely increasingly on their own resources...
SDGs Millennium Development Goals Official development assistanceBlog
In the Director's chair: Reflections on my first six months as Director
My first six months as Director of UNU-WIDER have been busy, enlightening, and rewarding...
SDGs SDG5 SDG8