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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.

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.

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

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.

10746 UNU-WIDER articles, publications, projects, experts...

Blog

The Polarized post-2015 Development Puzzle: The Poorest still Fall Behind

by Marikki Stocchetti April 2013

23 April 2013 Marikki Stocchetti 2015 will mark a moment of truth for the international community as the era of the Millennium Development agenda...

Blog

Positioning the Climate Finance in the post-2015 Development Agenda

by Aziz Karimov June 2013

24 June 2013 Aziz Karimov By the end of 2015, we will see a new global development agenda which will substitute the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...

Blog

Poverty and Inclusive Growth in the Light of the Quintile Income Statistic

by Sreenivasan Subramanian December 2013

9 December 2013 S. Subramanian 1 Introduction It appears that the World Bank is planning to maintain and disseminate systematic information on a...

Blog

Bringing in Public Economics – An Interview with Jukka Pirttilä

by Carl-Gustav Lindén March 2014

29 March 2014 Quite a few prominent Finnish economists have been collaborating with UNU-WIDER throughout the years. One of them is Jukka Pirttilä, who...

Blog

The Present Development Debate and Beyond

by Finn Tarp February 2013

Finn Tarp The current global development agenda is centred on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), established at the turn of the Millennium. They...

Blog

Reorientating the Results Based Agenda: Interviews by Carl-Gustav Lindén

by Carl-Gustav Lindén March 2013

21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...

Blog

Imperfect Data Increases Uncertainty

by Carl-Gustav Lindén May 2013

9 May 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén The world is a complex place where risk and uncertainty are an everyday challenge. Decision makers at all levels say...

Blog

Inclusive Growth in Africa

by Roger Williamson September 2013

24 September 2013 Roger Williamson Another big weekend for UNU-WIDER. The stage was well set on Thursday 19 September for a consideration of...

Blog

Jobs Drive Development: An interview with Martin Rama

by Carl-Gustav Lindén January 2013

15 January 2013Martin Rama from The World bank discusses the process behind the World Development Report 2013 on jobs, which he directed.He emphasises...

Book Chapter

Regional Cooperation and Peace

Part of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

Working Paper

Climate change and developing country interests

We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that...

Blog

Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement and Implications: An Interview with James Foster

by Roger Williamson October 2013

17 October 2013 James Foster describes the importance of moving beyond income poverty as a way of assessing 'who is poor?' and 'how poor?'...

Blog

A New Agenda for a New World

by Gunilla Carlsson June 2013

24 June 2013 Minister Gunilla Carlson Like every political agenda, the post-2015 agenda must be firmly based in a reality check. The current...

Blog

Youth Employment: A Key Issue

by Carl-Gustav Lindén January 2013

Economist Imed Drine recently left UNU-WIDER and headed with his family for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to take up a new position as a senior economist with...

Blog

What Does it Mean to be in the Middle?: Mobility and Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean

by Luis López-Calva January 2013

Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva [1] The concept of social class and specifically middle class, has been widely discussed in sociology and other social...

Blog

Agricultural Policy in Africa: Understanding Decision-Making and Implementation

by Danielle Resnick, Regina Birner January 2011

Danielle Resnick and Regina Birner In recent years, there has been renewed emphasis on promoting agricultural production and food security in sub...

Book

Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book examines the links...