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UNU-WIDER's LDC5 Conference Exhibition

Visit the virtual booth featuring materials shared at the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Doha, Qatar. Check out photos, videos, and infographics on our research results from LDCs.

Check out our new series of short videos on ‘The puzzle of peace’!

Learn about key issues in peace and conflict research in two minutes from top experts in the field. Click here to watch.

Capacity development in action: UNU-WIDER Winter School

In collaboration with Stellenbosch University, we organised an intensive winter school course on tax policy research, delivering training to 27 African researchers from 13 countries. Read more

Think WIDER Webinar Series – New perspectives on domestic revenue mobilization

This webinar series aims to facilitate a discussion on how domestic revenue mobilization can be supported in the Global South. Read more

Check out our research in brief

Our research and policy briefs provide a short overview with key findings, lessons, and policy implications, from some of our key research outputs.

Visit our YouTube channel

Want to catch up on our recent events? Find out what Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz think about the SDGs? Click here to visit us on YouTube.

Introducing the WIDER Alumni

WIDER Alumni connects former UNU-WIDER PhD Fellows, Visiting scholars, research collaborators and personnel who share a unique and rich experience of learning and working together as the people behind the institute's research and operations. Read more

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

Blog

A food crisis was brewing even before the Ukraine war – but taking these three steps could help the most vulnerable

by Derek Headey, Kalle Hirvonen
March 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the disruption, by sanctions or war, of two of the world’s largest grain exporters. This means 2022 is shaping up to be a very difficult year for the global food system...

Violent conflict Food supply Famine

Presentation

Patricia Justino briefs Swedish aid agency on aid in autocracies and fragile countries

On 4 February 2020, UNU-WIDER's Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino will be giving a presentation at an event organised by Sweden’s government agency for development cooperation Sida as part of their Department for Africa’s...

4 February 2021

Online, Stockholm, Sweden

Past event

Project

Institutional legacies of violent conflict

Theme: Transforming states

Violent conflict Political violence Wartime governance

Journal Article

Ethnic inequality, cultural distance, and social integration: evidence from a native-settler conflict in the Philippines

A key debate in studies of native-migrant relations relates to the barriers to integration created by ethno-cultural differences and socio-economic disadvantage...

Inequality Ethnicity Violent conflict

Working Paper

Inequality, ethnicity, and social cohesion

How do changes in socio-economic inequality between ethnic groups affect interethnic ties in a divided society?...