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Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilizationWe evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh...
Children HealthcareJournal Article
Costs, and cost-outcome of school feeding programmes and feeding programmes for young children: Evidence and recommendationsPart of Journal Special Issue Aid, Education Policy, and Development
Children Economic developmentWorking Paper
Child deprivation and income poverty in GhanaThis study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey...
Children Income PovertyWorking Paper
Estimating multidimensional childhood poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007 through 2013After years of economic decline, conflict, and instability, the Democratic Republic of Congo achieved rapid economic growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty...
Children Poverty Public welfareVideo
Progress in Data and MeasurementConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 5.1
Database Inequality HealthVideo
The Poorest and Most ExcludedConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 1.3
Poverty Children HouseholdsVideo
Country ExperiencesConference on Inequality—Measurement, trends, impacts, and policies - Parallel 2.3
Public expenditures Children MalnutritionWorking Paper
School, market work, and household chores: A day of Guatemalan childrenThis paper utilizes a unique dataset on time use to study the determinants of the number of hours allocated to market work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011...
Children EducationWorking Paper
Children and the youth in rural VietnamStructural transformation in rural Vietnam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture...
Children Education Ethnic relationsSeminar
Multidimensional Child Poverty Assessment MethodologyThe ‘Multidimensional Child Poverty Assessment Methodology’ seminar was held in Maputo on 8 July 2015. It was part of the UNU-WIDER Research Programme theme of Transformation organized in partnership with the Ministry of Economics and...
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The Future of Development – Aid and Beyond
Just over a year ago, in March 2014, UNU-WIDER published a report entitled: What do we know about aid as we approach 2015?...
Biodiversity conservation Children Climate changeJournal Article
First Order Dominance Analysis: Child Wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of CongoThis paper performs a multidimensional first order dominance analysis of child wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...
Children Poverty measurement Methodology (Poverty)Research Brief
Children’s nutrition status in Mozambique: Determining the impact of rising food pricesEvidence obtained from detailed household surveys in Mozambique during the 2008-09 food price shock reveals just how pronounced the impact of food price inflation can be on children’s overall nutrition status...
Agriculture Children Food securityBlog
Inequality in South Africa - An Interview with Murray Leibbrandt
At the UNU-WIDER Inequality conference September 2014 we interviewed Murray Leibbrandt, Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town on issues of inequality in South Africa...
Children Economic policy EducationBlog
Out of the Poverty Trap Through Higher Aspirations?
Why does a mother from a poor African village not send her daughter to school, but instead marries her off to an old man as a second or third wife? This way poverty is inherited from parent to child...
Agricultural labourers Children Field experimentsBlog
From the Editor’s Desk (January 2015)
We are now into 2015, and the year is already gathering speed. 2015 is of course the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, and a major year in global development with the conclusion of the MDG process, and the start of a new chapter with the SDGs...
Agricultural industries Balance of payments Children