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Have you heard about the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database?

The new database provides crucial information on changes in the economic structure of economies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Preliminary findings suggest a trend reversal in many developing countries towards industrialization. Read more

How is COVID-19 changing development? A WIDER Webinar Series

Check out the upcoming WIDER Webinar Series events to hear from renowned researchers on the impact of COVID-19 on development, and the implications for the Global South. Recordings of past events available too. Click here for more details

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

UNU-WIDER organized a two-day online conference on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa, recordings and presentations now available

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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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Research and policy briefs

Evidence-based policymaking is crucial. Use our publications search to browse nearly 200 briefs which highlight the findings and policy implications of our research.

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

In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe economic decline...

Economic development Equality and inequality Finance

Working Paper

Foreign Direct Investment in Small Island Developing States

The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in small island developing states (SIDS) is an issue that has been neglected until relatively recently...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Finance

Working Paper

Finance and Growth: An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy

This study is an attempt towards an integration of financial development and its effect on the real sector via the transmission mechanism with special reference to developing and emerging market economies...

Credit Economic integration Finance

Book Chapter

Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development

From the book: Institutional Change and Economic Development

Central banking Economic development Finance

Working Paper

Financial Development and Income Inequality in Rural China 1991-2000

Financial development can exert a significant influence on the distribution of income...

Equality and inequality Finance Financial institutions

Working Paper

Financial Sector Development and Growth: The Chinese Experience

This paper documents the financial and institutional developments of China during the past two decades, when China was successfully transformed from a rigid central-planning economy to a dynamic market economy following its unique path...

Capital market Economic development Finance

Working Paper

Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development

In the last two decades, there has been a global sea change in the theory and practice of central banking...

Central banking Economic development Finance

Working Paper

Finance and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis

In this paper, using the rich household panel data of urban and rural Ethiopia that covers the period from 1994 to 2000, we attempted to establish the link between finance and poverty in Ethiopia...

Consumption Finance Households