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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
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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 SDG8Seminar
Charles Gore on Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10Charles Gore presented at the WIDER Seminar Series on 19 June 2019. Abstract – Inequality Reduction as a Global Goal: The Nature and Logic of SDG 10 Presentation slides An important feature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed as...
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Investigating Growing Inequality in MozambiquePart of Journal Special Issue Inequalities in the least developed countries
Inequality Mozambique DecompositionBlog
How can developing countries deliver effective public financial planning?In many less developed countries, there is little problem identifying the need for public investment in programmes aimed at improving things such as infrastructure, health and education. The problem comes in delivering them...
SDGs SDG16 SDG17Seminar
Rachel Gisselquist presents in an expert group meeting on inequalityUNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Rachel Gisselquist will give a presentation at an expert group meeting ‘ Reducing Inequalities: SDG 10 Progress and Prospects ’, organized by the World Bank and UN DESA in Geneva 2-3 April. The event will...