Working Paper

The transition from plan to market has fundamentally transformed the social structure in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The small Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan exemplifies these changes.Using data from nationally...

• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Equality and inequality
• Post-communism

Working Paper

• Equality and inequality
• Families
• Women

Working Paper

Already in the 1950s it became clear that, in spite of its widespread use, the per capita gross national product is an insufficient measure of the well-being of citizens. Thus, in 1954, an expert group within the United Nations suggested that one...

• Equality and inequality
• Poverty
• Welfare economics

Working Paper

• Comparative economics
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

Local institutional and structural (meso) factors can play a role in mediating the returns to a macro-social policy. I focus on the Brazilian cash-transfer-programme Bolsa Familia and check how contextual features influence the returns to transfers...

• Equality and inequality
• Institutional economics
• Government policy (Poor)

Blog

Wim Naudé and James C. MacGee Globally, wealth is very unequally distributed, both within countries and between countries. The UNU-WIDER project on...

• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Capital market
• Entrepreneurship

Journal Article

We provide a comprehensive approach for analyzing the evolution of poverty using Mozambique as a case study. Bringing together data from disparate sources, we develop a novel 'back-casting' framework that links a dynamic computable general...

• Equality and inequality
• Household survey
• Poverty measurement

Journal Special Issue

The project centers on the inter-linkages between the major developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China's growth on smaller economies and the rest of the...

• Economic development
• Equality and inequality
• International trade

Journal Special Issue

Globalization offers new opportunities for accelerating development and poverty reduction, but also poses new challenges for policymakers. And there is much concern about the distribution of benefits; in particular whether the poor gain from...

• Equality and inequality
• Globalization
• Poverty measurement

Report

The ReCom – Research and Communication on Foreign Aid – programme produced 247 original studies. More than 300 researchers from 59 countries came together and provided evidence on what does and could work in development, and what can be transferred...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Economic growth

Working Paper

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both consumption...

• Economic development
• Economic growth
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania’s national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as...

• Economic development
• Economic growth
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these ‘quantity’ and ‘price’ components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in...

• Education
• Equality and inequality
• Wage differentials

Working Paper

This paper investigates how two effects drive wedges between nominal and real inequality estimates. The effects are caused by (i) differences in the composition of consumption over the income distribution coupled with differential inflation of...

• Consumption
• Equality and inequality
• Poverty measurement

Working Paper

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in agriculture and a...

• Economic development
• Economic growth
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

This paper evaluates fairness in educational achievements through the ordered pair (W EEOp , I EOp ) whose components provide: (i) A measure of social welfare which accounts for the achievement of less-advantaged pupils and (ii) a synthetic index of...

• Education
• Equality and inequality
• Public welfare