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From the Editor's Desk (March 2015)
I’m writing this editorial from Dar es Salaam, while at the 20 th anniversary workshop for Tanzania’s REPOA , one of our research partners...
Capitalism Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy
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Researching and Reporting on Global Wealth – Two Interviews with Anthony Shorrocks
30 October 2014 by Roger Williamson In this interview Professor Anthony Shorrocks describes the methodology to research global household wealth, developed by him and colleagues when he was Director of UNU-WIDER...
Economic growth Equality and inequality Quantitative research methodologyJournal Article
Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African EconomyPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Consumption Equality and inequality Land tenureBlog
Global Inequality – What’s Going On? 26 September 2014 Roger Williamson Huge interest in the WIDER Inequality Conference (5-6 September) Inequality is big news...
Economic development projects Education Equality and inequalityBook Chapter
Recent Distributive Changes in Latin America: An OverviewFrom the book: Falling Inequality in Latin America
Equality and inequality Government accountability Income distributionBlog
Sharing for Prosperity
17 April 2013 Minister Heikki Eidsvoll Holmås Economic growth in itself will not end poverty...
Children Democracy Economic growthBlog
From the Editor's Desk (February 2013) Tony Addison As the snow continues to lie deep across Helsinki, UNU-WIDER is putting the last touches to the ReCom results meeting on ‘aid and the social sectors’, which takes place at Sida in Stockholm on 13 March...
Industrialization Econometric models (Economic development) ChildrenWorking Paper
Measuring Economic InsecurityWe provide an axiomatic treatment of the measurement of economic insecurity, assuming that individual insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past...
Methodology (Economics) Index numbers (Economics) WealthBook Chapter
The Simple Analytics of Elite Behaviour under Limited State CapacityFrom the book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Income distribution Political science WealthBlog
From the Editor's desk (October 2011) Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle...
Consumption Democracy DistributionNews
Contribution to a Special issue Celebrating Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's 75th BirthdayA new paper by Wim Naudé entitled 'Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach', has been included in a recent special issue of the Journal of Public Economics (Vol. 95 (3-4), celebrating Amartya Sen's 75th birthday.
Entrepreneurship Human development ChoiceWorking Paper
The Simple Analytics of Elite Behaviour Under Limited State CapacityThis paper discusses the issue of taxation and redistribution in economies dominated by Elites with limited state capacity...
Income distribution Political science WealthWorking Paper
The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia and China ComparedIn the former socialist redistributive economies, the transition to market economy and the conversion to private ownership followed different trajectories...
Income distribution Post-communism SocialismBlog
Wealth Distribution, the Financial Crisis and EntrepreneurshipWim Naudé and James C. MacGee Globally, wealth is very unequally distributed, both within countries and between countries...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Capital market Entrepreneurship