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Not too long and not too short: Introducing the new UNU-WIDER and Cambridge University Press series in Development EconomicsSimon Kuznets’ pipe dream was to have economic inequality data that rarely existed when he was writing. What are the pipe dreams of today’s development economists?...
Social mobility COVID-19 Academic excellenceWorking Paper
Can fungibility of development aid lead to more effective achievement of the SDGs?: An analysis of the aggregate welfare effect of aid fungibilityIn this paper, we explore the relationship between foreign aid fungibility and aggregate welfare...
Foreign aid Econometrics Aggregate welfareWorking Paper
A model to explain the impact of government revenue on the quality of governance and the SDGsThis paper empirically investigates the link between the level of government revenue per capita and six indicators of quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217) using data from 1980 to 2020...
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The first of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to end poverty in all its forms, everywhere. The monumental task — a long-time dream of humanity — is followed by 16 more goals under the 2030 Agenda...
Data SDGs UNU-WIDER Annual ReportJournal Article
Measuring global poverty before and during the pandemic: A political economy of overoptimismTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW. The contribution of this study is to question the ‘official’ estimates of global monetary poverty up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic...
COVID-19 Crisis Global povertyBlog
Above or below the poverty line: Three key questions for understanding shifts in global povertyIn 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted to middle-income countries (for example here , here , and here )...
COVID-19 Global poverty CrisisSeminar
Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi and Joseph Asunka on Afrobarometer and SDG Scorecards
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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 poverty