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35 years of research for change – what's next?

Join our anniversary celebrations as we reflect on some of the greatest achievements of UNU-WIDER over the last 35 years and how we see our work creating change in the future. Read more

Journal Special Issue: Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration

Looking at Vietnamese and Afghan migrants in Canada, Germany, the US, this special issue explores such experiences with a focus on inequality between migrants and host populations in countries of settlement. Read more

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NEW: Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM) programme

The aim of UNU-WIDER’s DRM programme is to help improve developing countries’ tax systems and to strengthen their domestic capacities for revenue collection. The DRM programme is financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). More

UN at 75: slow death or a new direction? | Annual Lecture 24

RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE The 2020 WIDER Annual Lecture by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown discusses whether the UN can reinvent itself, or whether it will sink into irrelevance? More

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How is COVID-19 changing development? A WIDER Webinar Series

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Research and policy briefs

Evidence-based policymaking is crucial. Use our publications search to browse nearly 200 briefs which highlight the findings and policy implications of our research.

24 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

Blog

Why the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be Good for Exporters

by Alisa DiCaprio
August 2012

Alisa DiCaprio The global arms trade is a lucrative business. In 2010, total arms transfers were estimated at US$40 billion. Despite the global recession, top producers in this highly concentrated industry continued to see a sales increase...

International economic relations International law International trade

Research Brief

Lessons of Experience in International Democracy Support

The view that democracy can be good for development has held sway in influential international development policy circles for over two decades now...

Democracy Democratization International security

Working Paper

Lessons of Experience in International Democracy Support: Implications for Supporting Democratic Change in North Africa

The so-called ‘Arab spring’ in North Africa and the Middle East in early 2011 took many political commentators by surprise...

Democracy Democratization International security

Blog

Entrepreneurship, Sovereignty, and Violent Social Conflict

by Jurgen Brauer, Robert Haywood
May 2009

Jurgen Brauer and Robert Haywood The role of the sovereign state in driving and resolving violent social conflict remains central to studies of peace and governance...

International agencies International law International obligations

Journal Article

Beyond the Notion of Security Community: What Role for the African Regional Organizations in Peace and Security?

Part of Journal Special Issue Conflict and Peace-building

International economic relations Regional economics International security

Working Paper

Beyond the Notion of Security Community: What Role for the African Regional Organizations in Peace and Security?

African regional organizations’ increasing activity in security policy is usually approached through the concept of a ‘security community’, which can only partially clarify their difficult situation...

International economic relations Regional economics International security

The first half of the 1990s was a period of great optimism about humanitarian intervention...

Conflict management National security International security

Book

Global Insecurity: Restructuring the Global Military Sector, Volume III

The first half of the 1990s was a period of great optimism about humanitarian intervention...

Conflict management National security International security

Book

The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

This book is dedicated to the implications of the New Regionalism for global security and development. The fourth volume in the five-volume New Regionalism Series, it features contributions from the UNU/WIDER project on New Regionalism...

Economic development Globalization Regional economics