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UNU-WIDER 2022 Annual Report is released

2022 was a key year in the UNU-WIDER 2019–2023 work programme, with great achievements made possible through our partnerships and collaborations Read more in the 2022 Annual Report.
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The Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

NEW BOOK - Available now on Open Access. Providing a nuanced view of informality across a range of developing economies using a common conceptual framework.
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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.
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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
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    UNU-WIDER Winter School on tax policy research

    Theme: Transforming societies

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    UNU-WIDER Summer School
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    Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania – strengthening research to achieve SDGs

    Theme: Transforming economies

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    Innovative sources for development finance

    Theme: 2002-03

    A joint project with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) in response to the UN General Assembly call for a rigorous study on ways to increase external finance for developing countries, particularly to meet the MDGs...

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    Conference on aid - principles, policies and performance

    Theme: 2006-07

    Aid is one of the most challenging development issues facing the international community. There is now a pressing need to evaluate performance to date, and the future for aid in light of recent events such as the post-Monterrey consensus to...

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    Stabilization and adjustment policies and programmes

    Theme: 1985-97

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    Globalization and the obstacles to the successful integration of small vulnerable economies

    Theme: 2000-01

    A key challenge for policy makers is how to bring about the successful integration of the less developed countries into the international system. Many of the obstacles to the meaningful participation of vulnerable developing economies in the...

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    Foreign aid and democracy in Africa

    Theme: 2010-11

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    Inclusive growth in Mozambique – scaling-up research and capacity

    Theme: Transformation

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    Gender equality

    Theme: 2010-11

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    Understanding the African lions - growth traps and opportunities in six dominant African economies

    Theme: Transformation

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    Building state capability through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

    Theme: 2012-13

    As a sub-component of the Research and Communication on Foreign Aid (ReCom) programme, the PDIA project feeds into the themes: governance and fragility & social sectors. An integral part of development is the expansion of capability of the state to...

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    Discrimination and affirmative action - what have we learnt so far?

    Theme: Inclusion

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    Environment and climate change

    Theme: 2010-11

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    Experimental and non-experimental methods to study government performance: contributions and limits

    Theme: 2012-13

    In recent years, field experiments using randomized trials have gained increasing popularity in the field of development economics. In particular, scholars have argued strongly for their use as the best means of identifying ‘what works’ in foreign...

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    Natural resources, structural change, and industrial development in Africa

    Theme: Transformation

    This project focuses on three specific areas that impact the pace of structural transformation and job creation in five emerging African natural resources economies: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

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