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35 years of knowledge for change: Bringing inequality to the fore (1998-2020)

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

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

Check out the upcoming WIDER Webinar Series events to hear from renowned researchers on the impact of COVID-19 on development, and the implications for the Global South. Recordings of past events available too. Click here for more details

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

Support COVID-19 research - take the survey today

Life with Corona, a global survey tracking the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 around the world has just been released with updated questions. Take part in the survey here, and share the link with your colleagues, friends and family! Read more

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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.

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

Conference

Achieving Sustainable Development in the Least Developed Countries - Towards LDC5

30 August 2021 09:00 – 1 September 2021 17:00

News

UNU-WIDER joins major new research consortium analysing African cities Urban economics Informal sector Partnerships for Development

Working Paper

A comparative study of export processing zones in the wake of the Sustainable Development Goals: The cases of Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe

The objective of this research is to assess the extent to which export processing zones in Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe integrate the Sustainable Development Goals in their implementation and operations...

export processing zones Sustainable development Botswana

Journal Article

Vertical and Horizontal Inequality in Ecuador: The Lack of Sustainability

Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal inequality in the Global South

Equality and inequality Poverty Sustainable development

Journal Article

Biofuels technology development in Southern Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Bioenergy in Southern Africa

Biofuels bioenergy Technology maturity

Seminar

Opeyemi Akinyemi on green energy and green growth strategy for the sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa

Opeyemi Akinyemi will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 17 April 2019. Abstract – Green energy and green growth strategy for the sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa Sustainable development is gaining ground as a paradigm shift...

17 April 2019

UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland

Past event