AL27-banner

Globalization in crisis – confronting a new economic reality

WIDER Annual Lecture 27

Report: Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality

Research evidence for transforming economies, states, and societies

New WIID Explorer!

A powerful tool for accessing and analysing data on income inequality
Annual Report 2022 Cover

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.
Josue Figueroa / Unsplash

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.
Banner puzzle

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.
UNU-WIDER Winter School cohort

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
In brief

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.
Photo: Alexander Zach / UNU-WIDER

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.

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

Filter by...

Reset all
Type
Working Paper
Reputation, Policy Risk, and Land Use

Since 1999, China has spent RMB 50 billion (about US$7 billion) to implement the ‘Grain for Green’ programme, the largest land retirement programme in the developing world. From 1999 to 2003, over 7.2 million hectares of agricultural land were...

Working Paper
Gender, Local Knowledge, and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity

This paper explores the linkages between gender, local knowledge systems and agrobiodiversity for food security by using the case study of LinKS, a regional FAO project in Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Tanzania over a period of eight years and...

Working Paper
Foreign Aid and Sustainable Forestry

Foreign aid can contribute to sustainable forestry in many ways. The goal is to secure forest benefits of the future, without compromising the needs of the present generations. This paper elaborates on forestry aid as it has evolved in the past...

Working Paper
Aid and the Environment

Botswana has serious environmental problems which, if not addressed, will undermine the attainment of sustainable economic development. This study attempts to determine what aid flows have actually been doing with regard to the environment in...

Book Chapter
Gender, Local Knowledge and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity

Part of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure

Book Chapter
Protecting Environmental Resources and Preventing Land Degradation

Part of Book The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies

Book Chapter
Valuation of Tropical Forests

Part of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Book Chapter
Macroeconomic Policies and Deforestation

Part of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Book Chapter
Analysis and Management of Watersheds

Part of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Displaying 9 of 9 results