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Tax–benefit responses in Uruguay during the COVID-19 pandemicWe analyse the social protection policy response to COVID-19 and its impact on household incomes in Uruguay during 2020 and 2021, based on static microsimulation methods...
COVID-19 Taxes BenefitsWorking Paper
The evolution of inequality in Mozambique: 1996/97–2019/20After decades of war, ending in 1992, Mozambique embarked on a path of sustained economic growth and substantial poverty reduction...
Inequality Consumption Spatial inequalityWorking Paper
Distributional impacts of agricultural policies in Zambia: A microsimulation approachThis paper examines the distributional impacts of agricultural policies versus those of cash transfers using a tax–benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020...
Agricultural policy Tax Cash transfersLecture
13th B.G. Kumar Lecture Is India a Land of Opportunity? delivered by Professor Kunal SenThe recording of this lecture is available here . Professor Kunal Sen delivers the 13th B.G. Kumar Lecture on 'Is India the Land of Opportunity?' at the Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. The lecture begins at...
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Press Release: Economic experts meet in Helsinki to discuss solutions to rising debt in developing countries
Debt Climate change Inequality Blog
Reducing inequality — the great challenge of our time
Early in October 2022, international and Colombian researchers gathered together for three days at the UNIANDES campus, located at the foot of the impressive Monserrate in Bogotá, Colombia...
Inequality Social mobility Group-based inequalityBlog
Inequality, fiscal space, and crisis response — A matter of priority, affordability, or both?
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments financed more than 5000 fiscal support policies worldwide in 2020–21...
Fiscal policy Fiscal capacity InequalityBlog
Report from the WIDER Development Conference on reducing inequality
For several decades, UNU-WIDER has actively worked on pathfinding and groundbreaking research on inequalities. We host one of the most extensive collections of income inequality statistics in the world freely available and updated annually...
Inequality Social mobility Group-based inequalityJournal Article
Changing male perceptions of gender equality: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial studyIn this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether asking Vietnamese men to reflect on gender equality can reduce their gender bias...
Gender Inequality Male perceptionPanel discussion
Addressing group-based inequalities presents at the APSA 2022 annual meetingOn 17 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Addressing ethnic inequality: Experiences of reform. The panel, chaired by UNU-...
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Electoral politics and Mexico’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-outGovernment responsiveness is an integral feature of representative democracy. Its importance could be amplified in times of crisis, especially if citizens cannot rely on market actors for help...
COVID-19 COVID-19 policy response COVID-19 vaccineWorking Paper
Growth and inequality convergence: the role of environmentally related impacts on human capitalWe examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries...
Inequality Convergence environmental impactWorking Paper
Who was impacted and how? COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in IndiaWe investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate aftermath and during the uneven recovery until December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityWorking Paper
Inequality and human development: The role of different parts of the income distributionIn this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution...
Human development Inequality InstitutionsNews
UNU-WIDER alum Nanak Kakwani releases a new book on poverty and inequalityProfessor Nanak Kakwani is one of UNU-WIDER's first research fellows. Joining the institute in 1986, he is the author of the second WIDER Working Paper ever published. The first is Food, Economics, and Entitlements by UNU-WIDER founder and Nobel...
Economics Poverty InequalityJournal Article
Income distribution and the potential of redistributive systems in Africa: A decomposition approachRedistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are expanding in order to finance increasing public spending...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policy Microsimulation