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Development challenges in Africa in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

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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
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Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution: The Tunisian perspective

In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context...

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